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14 Indians, including kids, flogged in "Maya punishment"
Agencia EFE ^
| 22 August 2006
| Staff
Posted on 08/22/2006 4:03:36 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Guatemala City, Aug 22 (EFE).- Fourteen Guatemalan Indians were publicly flogged, forced to kneel on bottle caps and shorn of their hair after being convicted by a traditional assembly of various offenses, local media reported Tuesday.
The so-called "Maya punishment," provided for in traditional codes acknowledged by the modern nation-state, was applied Monday in the northwestern town of Nahuala, community leader Pascual Ixmata told the press. The 14 accused - four of them women - were whipped and forced to kneel on bottle caps, and their hair was cut off.
The male miscreants, who were charged with sniffing glue, also had sacks of sand placed on their shoulders, Ixmata said.
The women scourged Monday had been accused of selling children to adoption brokers, the same crime for which 12 other Indians - eight men and four women - were subjected to the "Maya punishment" 10 days ago in the town of Pasajaquin. EFE oro/dr
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: barbaric; celebratediversity; diversity; flogging; guatemala; indians; maya; publicflogging; punishment; separatebutequal
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Celebrate diversity!
To: Kitten Festival
Do I have a problem with this?
Thinking.....thinking.....thinking....
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:06:18 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
To: Kitten Festival
Woohoo!
All cultures are equal!
Go, multi-culturalism, go!
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:06:25 PM PDT
by
Nickname
To: Kitten Festival
Coming soon to a town near you. Man, western civilzation was great while it lasted!
To: Kitten Festival
Mel should be glad he didn't get caught drunk driving down there.
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:06:49 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: Kitten Festival
Fourteen Guatemalan Indians were publicly flogged, forced to kneel on bottle caps and shorn of their hair after being convicted by a traditional assembly of various offenses, local media reported Tuesday. The ancient Mayans had bottle caps?
To: Kitten Festival
Flogging in Guatemala, stoning in Iran, beheading in disparate third world hellholes.
And hockey.
./sarcasm
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:10:05 PM PDT
by
Hilltop
To: Mike Darancette
Well, what else do you think they put on those pottery beer bottles?
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:11:42 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
To: Kitten Festival
They better be glad they weren't Aztecs!
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:11:51 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: Kitten Festival
I'm trying to imagine what's worse with the bottlecap thing - are they using the old style glass bottle type, or the plastic bottle caps?
I'd go with old school; they might cut, but the weight distribution wouldn't be as bad, IMHO.
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:17:14 PM PDT
by
Solamente
(Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out...)
To: vladimir998
As for me,.....I'm a traditionalist. Public flogging is the answer to prison overcrowding. The bottle cap thing is new to me.
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:18:29 PM PDT
by
Uriah_lost
(M.I.E. Mainer In Exile I'll come back when the Massholes go home.)
To: Kitten Festival
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:19:49 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
To: JennysCool
Next up: cannibalism.
You got to hand it to those wacky Mayans!
To: Kitten Festival
The knelling on bottle caps -- that's too Western!
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:27:34 PM PDT
by
i_dont_chat
(I have the right to offend. You can take offense or not.)
To: Uriah_lost
About the bottle caps: it's better than just throwing the caps away, right?
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:40:03 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
To: Kitten Festival
Yeah, notice that these guys were busted for "sniffing glue".
They live in a countryside where marijuana and 238 other hallucinogenic substances grow wild.
They'll do anything to get holt of some samples of modern automotive paint.
George Soros policites hold no interest for them.
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:48:12 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Mike Darancette
The ancient Mayans had bottle caps? Of course they did. Ain't you never heard of open-container laws?
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posted on
08/22/2006 4:50:46 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
To: Kitten Festival
Woohoo! Sharia, Central American style!
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posted on
08/22/2006 5:01:28 PM PDT
by
lightman
(The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be exorcised.)
To: Kitten Festival
Everybody's nuts, except the half the USA.
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posted on
08/22/2006 5:05:21 PM PDT
by
keats5
(tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
To: Kitten Festival
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posted on
08/22/2006 5:15:45 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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