Colombia’s ‘social cleansing’ phenomenon: Exterminating people like bugs
Legal authorities continue to turn a blind eye to so-called “social cleansing” practices that kill hundreds of “undesirables” in Colombia’s urban areas every year.
Legal authorities continue to turn a blind eye to so-called “social cleansing” practices that kill hundreds of “undesirables” in Colombia’s urban areas every year.
An unknown group in Bogota has distributed a pamphlet announcing its intentions to engage in “social cleaning” activities in one of the Colombian capital’s poorer neighborhoods, national media reported Wednesday.
An unknown group purporting to stand for citizens’ justice distributed a flyer in social media platforms declaring its intentions to carry out “social cleansing” acts against criminals in Medellin, national…
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Paramilitary social cleansing of homosexuals, mentally disabled and drug addicts in the departments of Tolima and Caldas were never really investigated by prosecutors, verdadabierta.com reported. Prosecutors in Fresno and Honda…