Posted on 05/30/2023 10:06:41 PM PDT by Angelino97
At least 153 people who were arrested since El Salvador instituted emergency powers have died in state custody, according to a report by a human rights group.
The special powers were introduced in March 2022 to battle powerful street gangs based in El Salvador in the President Nayib Bukele's 'war on gangs'.
None of those who died, which included four women with the rest being men, had been convicted of a crime they were accused of at the time of their arrest, according to the report by Central American human rights group Cristosal.
The report by the NGO said that 29 of the deaths were confirmed as violent and 46 more were thought to be suspicious.
The bodies of most of these 75 people showed signs of torture, beatings or strangulations, the report said. Other deaths which showed signs of injury were classified as having an 'undetermined' or 'natural' cause of death.
Some of the deaths showed signs they resulted from deliberate denial of medical assistance, medicine and food, including some deaths resulting from malnutrition.
The report says the deaths reveal punitive policies carried out by guards and prison officials, stating that such actions would have required authorisation and backing by the top-level security officials.
The government has not provided an official count of deaths among the incarcerated.
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When you allow such violence from the gangs to control your country in the last thirty years, you are going to have to go to war to defeat them.
Consequently, people die.
Meh. Small price for dramatically slashing the rates of crime and murder in the country. Somehow, I can live with it.
Not seeing the problem here. Wile them all out.
Painfully.
“I hope it doesn’t come to that in America, but we’re getting closer by the day..”.
With millions invading us via the southern border, it’s only a matter of time.
They’re setting up cells, getting organized and armed right now, IMO
>> They’re setting up cells, getting organized and armed right now, IMO
Yep, and to be fair to you, I think that’s more than just your opinion.
There is a risk of jailers having personalities similar to the prisoners.
Similar to what happened with the Zetas in Mexico.
These so called human rights groups HAVE to get this stopped. I mean, what would happen if all the Latinos from Mexico and central America decided they wanted to go THERE instead of HERE. What would they do? OH HEAVENS!
I have a little mixed thought, but if the jailers are out of bounds, I would guess there is a new gang in town. I’ll bet any uprising would result in shots fired indiscriminately toward the crowd of inmates. I’ll also wager, the people are breathing a sigh of relief. MS 13 is bad. I never heard of MS 18.
It will start at the most opportune time.
Of course, the ‘Human rights’ ‘investigators’ / Daily Mail aren’t interested in how many innocent lives have been saved by the crackdown!
We should have gone full Pinochet decades ago!
It’s a war
D’aubisson understood
I wonder how many Cristosal reporters actually live in the gang infested territories...subject to indiscriminate violence and murder at the hands of the gangs. Their compassion is completely misplaced.
Try to imagine how little I care.
They are here to kill us,..under orders from you know who,..somewhere down the road.
I heard that happened in Vietnam.
El Salvador is booming. Many Americans are buying property there also because the country is now safe.
These human rights groups only care about criminal rights, not citizen rights. They select which humans to care about.
It is these human rights groups that have shackled our police and turned out cities into shipholes.
Good for El Salvador!!!
I’m appalled! not!
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