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| Murderous gangs turn urban El Salvador into battlefield |
| 2006-06-03 |
| She was in Ilopango, a poor neighbourhood of San Salvador, and a light drizzle was falling. She did not want to get wet but her fellow gang members had given her orders. Besides, unless she did it she would never earn the tattoo they had promised her. “I really wanted that tattoo,” she recalls. She took a 9mm pistol and went in search of a victim. It was 1992 and she was 12. Nelly is a member of the Mara Salvatrucha, the biggest of several gangs that are turning the poor urban areas of El Salvador into a battlefield barely 14 years after the country emerged from a long and bloody civil war. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #1 This problem could easily be solved in Central American countries. Cordon and search, anyone sporting ANY gang affiliation tats gets a pistol shot to the head and is left to rot. Anyone moving the body before it has become a bleached skeleton...gets shot. Here in the States, enact legislation authorizing limited martial law for the purpose of gang elimination. Again, cordon and search known gang areas. Again, instant justice. If drastic action isn't taken to decimate these gangs, and destroy their attractivness to new recruits, one day parts of the US will be like South Africa is now. We're almost there as it is. JMRO -M |
| Posted by: Manolo 2006-06-03 15:43 |