Posted on 06/09/2013 4:07:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A Bolivian teen suspected of raping and murdering a woman was buried alive on top of her casket during her funeral by an angry mob of grieving relatives.
Santos Ramos, 17, allegedly sexually assaulted and strangled 35-year-old Leandra Arias Janco in the village of Colquechaca, in the Potosi district of Bolivia's southern highlands, on Sunday.
At her funeral Wednesday, local media reports a group of 200 vigilantes captured the teen and tied him up.
With Janco's coffin lowered into the ground, they reportedly threw him on top and started to cover him with dirt, reports Boliviaentusmanos.com.
It is not yet clear whether he survived the incident. But it has emerged that it was the second instance of mob justice handed out in the area that day.
Quechua residents of Tres Cruces stoned a suspected thief to death and burned his accomplice alive after they were busted stealing a car and killing its driver.
Sources said lynchings were not uncommon in the area, where the justice system is often corrupt and communities are known to police themselves.
Sounds more like street justice to me.
I like it. Maybe if more of this was done people would think twice before committing murder. I say an eye for an eye whatever the crime.
Or at least justice, if he actually committed the crime.
If this was Sanford Florida Zimmerman would not get his trial.
The street mobs would have hung him up guilty or not.
The only problem with lynching is the crowd doing the lynching does not always get the right guy.
Lynchings could be avoided by not keeping people awaiting execution for 15 to 20 years.
Give them their trial, then lynch them, do not feed them for 20 years and give them multiple appeals, with shyster lawyers.
Zimmerman is being lynched by the state.
I’m not opposed to capital punishment for murderers, but torture is something else entirely. Burned alive, buried alive? Let God have the vengence, if that’s what they deserve. Capital punishment in itself sends a clear enough message: if you take a life, you give up the right to keep your own.
I agree. An economic lynching at any rate.
They have destroyed this man, and his family.
He still hasn’t been convicted, and I don’t believe he will be, but a prosecutor has Nifonged him.
I wish we had a vigilante force here in Ga. Oh how I would love to see Charles Bronson on the street.
When I think of how much money and time is spent trying to prevent being a victim of crime- alarm systems, locks, dogs, weapons and just fear in general, it seems that the criminals have gotten bolder. Why aren’t they the ones who are scared of law abiding citizens?
"Coming soon to a location near you...".
> I wish we had a vigilante force here in Ga.
In 2002 when the Tri-State Crematory fiasco in northwest Georgia was going on and Ray Brent Marsh was arrested, my family had the remains of at least a half dozen of our family members desecrated. My uncle’s remains turned out to be just Portland cement. My cousin Nan, organized several hundred locals into a lynch mob and they marched on the jail. Unfortunately the authorities stopped them at the jailhouse and dispersed them back to their homes.
The Inca didn’t disappear, they just learned a bit of Spanish.
Sucks to be a murderer.
That will start to happen here as law enforcement becomes ruler/mob style enforcement. It will end as totalitarianism becomes actually total.
It’s happened enough times in our own history, when authorities become corrupt and justice cannot be had, or was never to be had in the first place. People then take matters into their own hands. It’s not a static situation wherein the majority are just going to sit and take the abuse.
My own home state of NC was a prime example, being historically poorly administered in the colonial era by the Lords Propietors, treated more as a means of rewarding favorites of the nobles who were only interested in extorting wealth from the populace and little else, building grand palatial residences in the east of the colony by means of impoverishing yeoman farmers in the west, to the point of seizing farmsteads for petty, inconsequential matters with a princely fine. Or worse.
It can get out of hand. Innocent people can be harmed or killed. It can lead to war if neglected for a sufficiently long period of time. The question is, who is more to blame, the corrupt officials administering penury and injustice, or the mobs that inevitably form as a result?
Yes. The US justice system is close, it is more concerned with the rights of criminals, Muslims, and other aliens, than those of the citizens themselves. All our politicians are lawyers. The connected or celebrities are not held to the same laws as the little people either.
That will start to happen here as law enforcement becomes ruler/mob style enforcement. It will end as totalitarianism becomes actually total.
I remember reading about this. I am so sorry this happened to your and your family.
Sometimes, the people just need justice. I am sorry your cousin was stopped.
“but torture is something else entirely. Burned alive, buried alive?”
It’s not about the perp. It’s a message to those who are considering committing rape/murder.
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