Police blamed in Central American gang murders

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06 Mar 2005 17:11:34 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Frank Jack Daniel

GUATEMALA CITY, March 6 (Reuters) - <snip>

Dozens of gang members' dead bodies showing signs of torture have been found in Central American cities in the last few months and human rights groups say security forces are applying a policy of "social cleansing." <snip>

"Everybody here talks about the executions -- men in blue, black and gray cars shooting at kids in poor neighborhoods, kidnapping them and taking them to lonely sites where they tie their hands and shoot them in the head," Honduran activist Berta Oliva said. <snip>

Central America was ravaged by civil wars in the 1980s and right-wing death squads linked to the army and police ran wild in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. <snip>

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