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[email protected] 26-11-2006 12:09 AM

BEWARE, AMERICAN WOMEN: 'Femicide' crisis: From the streets of Central America to Everytown, USA
 

GeorgeWashingtonAdmirer wrote:
> Lest one doubt that what's being termed the "femicide" crisis in
> Mexico and Central America is now well underway throughout the United
> States -- DUE TO THE ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION AND COLONIZATION OF THE USA
> -- merely access some of the links appended to this post.
>
> Bush, Nancy ($50 million fortune) Pelosi and all the other
> well-connected socioeconomic elites who serve as cheerleaders for the
> illegal alien influx are conveniently well-insulated from its homicidal
> consequences. The average Mr. and Mrs. United States Citizen,
> unfortunately, ISN'T.
> __________________________________________________ ____________
>
> http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35603
>
> MEXICO-CENTRAL AMERICA:
> Juárez Femicides, Just a Drop in the Ocean of Blood
>
> BY Diego Cevallos
>
> MEXICO CITY, Nov 24 (IPS) - Ciudad Juárez in Mexico has been dubbed
> "the femicide capital" of the world by human rights organisations
> because about 400 women have been killed there in the last 13 years.
> But murders of women are also frequent elsewhere in Mexico, as well as
> in Guatemala and El Salvador, and so far there is little public
> discussion about them.
>
> An average of 1,000 women a year were murdered in Mexico, a country of
> 103 million, between 1995 and 2005, according to official figures.
> Ciudad Juárez does not even appear on the list of the places where the
> largest number of killings occurred -- instead, they are Toluca, a city
> close to the capital, and Guadalajara, in the central state of Jalisco.
>
> And across the border in Guatemala, which has a population of 13
> million, 566 women were killed in the first 10 months of this year,
> while in El Salvador, a country of 6.9 million, 286 were killed between
> January and August.
>
> Despite the high numbers, these crimes have not enjoyed the same
> notoriety as in Ciudad Juárez, on Mexico's border with the United
> States, where they have been the object of an outcry by human rights
> groups, investigations by United Nations rapporteurs, films,
> documentaries and books.
>
> "Juárez has become a by-word as a result of all the denunciations and
> demonstrations that the femicides there have provoked, but in other
> Mexican cities, and particularly in Guatemala, the situation now is
> extremely serious," Teresa Rodríguez, head of the United Nations
> Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) for Mexico, Central America, Cuba
> and the Dominican Republic, told IPS.
>
> "We are very concerned about these murders, which for the most part go
> unpunished," Rodríguez said ahead of the International Day for the
> Elimination of Violence against Women, which since 1999 is commemorated
> on Nov. 25.
>
> "There is a culture that continues to turn a blind eye to this
> situation, and we cannot tolerate it. It must be combated and prevented
> by means of public policies, but also, as has happened in Ciudad
> Juárez, it must be exposed and denounced, and we have to make it clear
> that these killings are not normal, just as violence against women and
> girls in general is not normal," she said.
>
> Femicide is a term that has been coined for misogynist or
> gender-motivated murders of women, sometimes accompanied by sexual
> violence.
>
> In Ciudad Juárez, located next to the U.S. border town of El Paso,
> about 400 women have been murdered since 1993. Sexual violence was
> involved in 78 of these crimes, according to official reports.
>
> The Special Prosecutor's Office Investigating Crimes Related to
> Violence Against Women, created by the outgoing Vicente Fox
> administration, reported in February that there is no pattern
> indicative of serial killings in Juárez, contrary to what human rights
> organisations have claimed.
>
> The report also said that 125 women died in their own homes, at the
> hands of relatives or acquaintances.
>
> UNIFEM estimates that between 20 and 30 percent of murdered women in
> Mexico and Central America are killed by their partners or relatives.
>
> In Juárez, most of the murdered women were in the 15-30 age group, and
> many were from low-income social strata and worked in maquiladora
> factories, which operate in tax-free zones and assemble products for
> export using imported materials.
>
> These factories are concentrated in Ciudad Juárez and other Mexican
> cities along the U.S. border. Their work force mainly consists of young
> women, many of whom are living away from their families.
>
> Although the Guatemalan context is different, the killings are similar.
> Deputy Nineth Montenegro, chair of the Guatemalan Congressional
> Commission on Women, said on Nov. 20 that 566 women had been murdered
> in her country between January and October.
>
> Femicides in Guatemala are attributed mainly to drug trafficking,
> organised crime and youth gangs.
>
> Montenegro said that in most of these deaths the motive remained
> unknown, and it was evident that these crimes were treated as of little
> importance, as they were spreading and taking root in society.
>
> UNIFEM's regional director said that there was a lot of work to be done
> to curb and prevent the killing of women.
>
> "Better training is needed for the police and in the justice system.
> These sectors are especially lagging in Central America, but now draft
> laws towards that end are being debated," she said.
>
> The "In-depth study on all forms of violence against women", published
> in July by the United Nations, mentioned the Ciudad Juárez murders for
> the zillionth time, but also referred to the killings in Guatemala.
>
> "Femicide occurs everywhere, but the scale of some cases of femicide
> within community contexts -- for example, in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and
> Guatemala -- has drawn attention to this aspect of violence against
> women," the report said.
>
> In line with the complaints by human rights groups and women's
> organisations, the U.N. states in its report that "impunity for these
> crimes is seen as a key factor in these occurrences."
>
> The report does not mention El Salvador, but the situation there is
> also very serious.
>
> Between January and August, 286 murders of women were reported in El
> Salvador, indicating an increase in the annual average of such deaths.
> From 2001 to the end of 2005, 1,320 women were killed, according to a
> study by the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsperson (PDDH).
>
> Sixty percent of these killings, most of which were committed in a
> domestic setting, remain unpunished.
>
> Rodríguez hopes that the exposure and denunciation of femicides in El
> Salvador, Guatemala and several cities in Mexico will encourage civil
> society and governments to create new programmes and actions to combat
> them, for what is happening "is totally unacceptable." (END/2006)
>
> --
> PLEASE EMAIL THESE LINKS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
> www.predatoryaliens.com
> www.immigrationshumancost.org
> www.daylaborers.org
> www.alipac.us
>
> "The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave" by Heather MacDonald
> http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_...gal_alien.html
>
> See the COLOSSAL costs of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer:
> www.immigrationcounters.com
>
> www.AmericanPatrol.com
> www.SaveOurState.org
> www.escapingjustice.com
>
> Just two of MANY American cops murdered by illegals:
> www.deputydavidmarch.com
> www.kriseggle.org
>
> "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an
> irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of
> freedom in the minds of men."
> -- Samuel Adams
> .
> "Unfortunately, the majority of illegal aliens who are here are engaged
> in criminal activity. Identity theft, use of fraudulent social security
> numbers and green cards, tax evasion, driving without licenses
> represent some of the crimes that are engaged in by the majority of
> illegal aliens on a daily basis merely to maintain and hide their
> illegal status. In addition, violent crime and drug distribution and
> possession is also prevalent among illegal aliens. Over 25% of today's
> federal prison population are illegal aliens. In some areas of the
> country, 12% of felonies, 25% of burglaries and 34% of thefts are
> committed by illegal aliens."
> -- Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before the House
> Subcommittee on immigration, Border, Security and Claims [Note: 99% of
> warrants for murder in Los Angeles, California -- the USA's 2nd
> most-populous city -- are for illegal aliens]


America in decline, a political state that lacks the will to control
it's borders.

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