Marcela Turati
In the conflict that spreads across the country, which officially only be called war for propaganda purposes , though we are not taking the necessary protection of civilians, the more danger there is to be in the middle two sides, ie, when not fighting. This is the situation described in the book Crossfire. Victims trapped in the drug war, the journalist Marcela Turati, reporter of Process, which is reprinted here with permission of the publisher Grijalbo, the chapter on children: a macabre sort of album that shows how to fall injuries dead child or children, youth and young ...
front ... the long run and will be back ... after ... after ... after ...
Carlos Javier walked to the store on an errand. Halfway through it involved a shooting. He tried to keep out the swarm of bullets. He could not. The neighbors and the shopkeeper had stuck its doors. Left without shelter. He dived to the floor until the ambulance arrived to pick him up. Already dead, pierced by several bullets. He had nine years.1
... Get down, then, and turn to bow ...
Daniela is in the courtyard of their school. A few minutes ago had fun at recess. Know the girl from 13 to what he played and with whom to talk. Now it is run. And bleeding. Has a hole in the leg. It's a bullet. He fell from the sky. He left a
helicóptero.2
... a little arm and broke, his face is full of soot ...
Liliana accompanied his father on his way to kindergarten. Dad and daughter together, can there be greater joy? The atmosphere in the family car became dense in a blink. A bullet entered mosquerío. A pierced his neck. The only shot completed the three years.3
Every month at least 24 graves dug to accommodate bone tender in Mexico.4 correspond to the remains of the "executed" smaller and more innocent of armed conflict during the presidency Calderón unleashed. Sewn bullets shattered by explosives, tortured to death, wounded with shrapnel grenades, killed mafia-style, a boy or a girl are nearly at the rate of one per day.
Geography incorporates new national cemeteries where they are the remains of a truck Rumbled, with blood splattered on the seats, windshield and a lined notebook Kitty the kitten, in a place in the mountains of Sinaloa, a bicycle Child abandoned on a street in Coahuila because his driver was descending a shot in the head, or the movie Shrek on the floor of a city bus used as a trench, the same place where a cowherd harrier was wounded four years.
The log of violence against infants is chilling records and month by month, adds more children. The first unofficial data provided by the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), was aware of the death of 610 children under 18 years (from December 2006 to March 2009), trapped in one of the national battlefield. According to a second register, a year and a half later, the number of children killed had doubled.
Each month were 22 infants just caught in the crossfire. Or in the paredón.5 2010, organizations such as the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico or the Children in Motion program told the monthly average of children killed is 30.6
Of the 610 deaths that accounted for the Department of Defense, a sixth was in the crossfire between rival gangs or clashes between gunmen and government forces. The figure did not include child deaths caused by federal forces. At least 73 of these new angels were killed "as a bonus, the fact of being with an adult who had outstanding accounts with those who dispute the drug business or that it was mistaken for another or was considered a nuisance. Like extras from a movie starring adults, children who fall into the environment are low do not matter. Pay with his life for his blood or strangers. The Numeralia
infant death are the children of the police, who probably dreamed that large would use the same uniform and a patrol tripularían. But do not be nobody left. Father and sons went to the tomb, as in the case of Jasmine and Samantha Valeria Julissa, 12 and 5 years, daughters of a police chief
Tijuana.7
Others were forced to share the family grave, and children 4 , 7, 9 and 16 years wiped out with a vengeance and retribution because her brother, a member of the Navy who had already killed, participated in the capture of a drug dealer. Adults and children were killed like dogs, as if his lineage was maldito.8
Broken
all signed honor code between mobsters who ordered not to interfere against the innocent, the bullets are housed each day in child bodies. There are coffins of all sizes. One of few centimeters, as box of dolls, was tailored to Alfredo, a baby of five months a year and a blast with his father in a horse race.
Ill be picking on the children, whom they see as enemy targets. This was the case 10 years Juárez whose body was found in the back of a pick up with his grandparents dead. His calves, descobijadas for shorts, bleeding, his face still looked hairless moretones.9 The three were tortured to death. They had a destination other brothers Andrew and Christian, 10 and 15 years with their corpses were 36 shell casings of .9 mm and .40; sizes with those kill
narcos.10
... Table tennis is going to bed , lie down and sleep ...
The country seems minefield. If I had to carry a warning in fine print, it should read: "No children friendly. Keep away. "
The actual number of infants killed is a mystery. Their cases are mixed in the mass grave where bodies join young and old. The government makes no distinction. Things are estimates separate counts of civil organizations, media or academia, adding bits and pieces that official figures were able to establish that the murders of children committed with firearms tripled this administration. There
may include the tragedy of Alexia Belem, a 12-Juárez girl, who was upset because his town was turned into a shootout. Before the end of the school asked his family to move to El Paso, Texas, with his grandparents, and he managed to give the graduation gift. He saw his gift: when he went to the store with a premium, some men went to flight by force to his truck and used as a shield antibalas.11
in the count of those killed must be added to the seven year old boy who was the passenger of his father when he intercepted a death squad. The father came to ask him to flee. Were his last words. He obeyed. He ran to save himself, but he reached; also rafaguearon.12
The suffering of many thousands of infants beyond the inventory balances of the war. Like imaginary children, children who only see other children, their misfortune is not on statistics but are injured. Nor have the nightmares of more than 40 000 huérfanos13 engendered by drug violence. Or the thousands of infants with nightmares and fear of facing the road.
Mexican violence does not fall into the category of international conventions which call "armed conflict", although the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico suggests that the effects that caused "deaths, orphans, trauma, suspension of classes , forced displacements, disappearances, are similar to those of war. In both cases the children were violates the right to life, to play, to develop in a protected environment to live in paz.14
Daily, anywhere in the country occurred at least one confrontation between soldiers and criminals. If you count the clashes between rival gangs over disputed territory, the risk figure would double. No wonder that a street or highway suddenly become front line. Adults at a shelter. Do not always managing to infants.
Pum. Mireya Montserrat falls in Acapulco, eight years, even with school uniform, with his brother Charles, three years older, and her mother. Pink and white balloons as stars adorn the velorio.15 Pum. That it's up to Antonio, a 13-year Zacatecas street caught in a shootout, but tried to protect a fragmentation grenade at mató.16 Ra-tata-ta-ta-ta. The car where Aaron travels is pierced by more than 30 bullets, one of which pierced her head, the killers take their body just eight years.17 Pum-Pum-Pum. These bullets impacting Laisa, nine, and Henry, his younger brother playing in a park where they become lightning rod of the bullets that were directed at the pattern of their papá.18 Pum. This strip Gabino, 15, who came to buy sugar for coffee to accompany with his birthday cake. Puuuuuum. That is heard louder. It is a grenade which burns a nine-year-Puuuuum Puuuuum Guadalajara.19-Puuuuum. Those explosives killed a 10 Durango (seven of them between eight and 17 years) who were traveling in a van to a nearby village to get a scholarship opportunities. Not reach the coffin, are shrouded in cobijas.20
In this war there is a camp where children can grow away from the bullets and keep their dreams intact.
mouse
... cowboy drew his gun, tipped his hat ...
One of the fatalities was a cowherd harrier four years, foul-mouthed and chambeador, expert care to mount mares and goats. His name was Alan and Alexis Martinez was injured while returning from the supermarket with her mother and grandfather. The truck transporting them was caught in the crossfire between soldiers and drug traffickers. New movies that thrilled "Shrek, El Chavo del Ocho, Ice Age, were irrigated.
"My daughter heard the driver shouted to duck and let the shooting. My grandson was on the seat beside the window, he panicked, snuggled up with my daughter, she covered him, two covered them my father, but the child was injured. They shouted that help them, desperate, and no one did. When he came down with the injured child soldiers was not allowed to cross the checkpoint and get to the ambulance which was behind. "
When the bullet hit him, Alan Alexis shouted: "Help me, Mommy, help me ... It hurts, it hurts." But struggled half an hour to get someone to move to a hospital. When they arrived at the emergency room and blood poured from his nose and mouth. This narrated Violeta Ramírez Puente, grandmother of the deceased, a 51 year old woman, sitting in a chair in the house of old paint and black bow at the door. In the seat next to hear her husband, Cipriano Hernández Martínez, a young grandfather of 50 who looks dumb grandson was his best friend, woke up at six in the morning to "paste" together the goats, milking cows and riding mares. And as someone who is respected, his grandson charged funded for their work in the arcades.
"As the child was either cursing me saying, 'Give me some fucking cookies and juice', and went to the two goats, the boy was driving a mare, the trotting as large. If my husband did not pay me said, 'Grandma, this dude does not pay me, I'll fucking play the slot machines, feréamelas (give fair). " We laugh a lot with his profanity-account nostalgic grandmother. It was very clever, it seemed that nothing was difficult, helped the neighbor carrying stones, hung out with older, did not like kindergarten, not knowing fear, on one occasion stayed alone in the forest while the goat gave birth and brought the goat loading right there. "
Sadness permeates the house of commons Aguanaval Holy Child, with Tower suburbs, where the photo of Alan Alexis dominates the room. In the picture is three years old, wears a gray suit, hands on knees stilted, a cowboy hat on his head. Look seriously as uncomfortable with the dandy costume. Is challenging with large black eyes.
"In the hospital told me that he had died of internal bleeding from a bullet, and then I say that my daughter brings a left leg injury and were operating. That it lasted almost a month in what put the graft because a fragmentation grenade struck that flowered and left a hole of 20 centimeters, "says Cipriano still like a sleepwalker.
Local newspapers reported that the gun that killed Alan Alexis was a Barrett, but the information is not mentioned again. Every time the mother learns of the murder of other children in La Laguna insists on going to the funeral because he relives the anger and begin again to curse the gunmen, saying: "If you want to kill them kill each other and in the mountains, not here, not here. "
Alan and Alexis could not be performed. He said he wanted to be big narco. Sometimes, when angry, asked the gun, the knife, the weapon that was in revenge of the offender. He was angry. He had his character. It was a reflection of reality learned. On TV. In music. On the street. Or at home. References
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an agency Notimex
"minor wounds armed group in Monterrey, June 11, 2010.
2 "stray bullet wounded a student in Reynosa," Millennium, May 28, 2010.
3 "Matan a girl three years old with his father", Northern Digital, June 2, 2010.
4 Figures for the newspaper Reforma, from 1 January 2010 to April 23, indicate that 97 children fell in that period ("narco-violence kills more children", April 28, 2010), for its part, the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico said that the first three months were killed by the conflict 90 juveniles (interview W Radio, April 30, 2010).
5 Gustavo Castillo García, "610 children have died in the war on drugs", La Jornada, April 12, 2009.
6 From January 1 to July 31, the Media Monitoring Children in Motion program of social intervention Ririki, amounted to 123 thousand children under 18 years killed in the context of armed conflict.
7 "Tijuana day lives red: up to attack children, "Reforma, January 16, 2008.
8 "murdered family of fallen Marine operation against Beltran, El Sol de Mexico, December 22, 2009.
9 "tortured and murdered a child, her grandmother and a man", El Diario de Juarez, June 20, 2010.
10 "Suman 237 children killed in two years", Northern Digital, June 3, 2010.
11 "I was scared to death of a bullet", El Diario de Juarez, June 12, 2008.
12 "murdered child of seven years with his father," Norte de Ciudad Juárez, 15 November 2009. Calculating
Wilberto
13 Martinez, a demographer at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, taking into account the fertility rate and population structure by age. "Nightmares of orphanhood," Proceso, August 8, 2010.
14 "Triple death of children," Reforma, June 7, 2010.
15 "child injured in shooting dies in Acapulco", El Universal, April 15, 2010.
16 "narco-violence kills children," Reforma, June 18, 2008.
17 "Looking for bodies of women and children killed by gunmen," Millennium, May 4, 2010.
18 "Velan your child, another son fighting for his life", El Diario de Juarez, October 3, 2009.
19 "Granadazo injured a child," Millennium, July 22, 2010.
20 "survived by two women during slaughter of children," Millennium, March 30, 2010.
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Marcela Turati
With his hand thin and misshapen, like a crab claw, the man extends a copy of a letter to the Army and signed his name "Adam Abel Esparza Parra."
The author of the letter, dated April 14, 2008, is a friendly rancher for 30 years and is speaking, it is testing a constant grin, a fake smile. In the middle of some phrases are silent, as if his mind climb cliffs or maybe back a year ago, to June 1, 2007, when it became useless for the job, the soul maimed, disabled for life. Tonight
moved his family in his pick up: in the cabin, in hand, were his wife Griselda, his sister Alicia and teacher Gloria teenage children, Teresa de Jesus Flores Sanchez. The women wore on their legs to their daughters and Juana Adanay Diosnirely Grisel, three and one year respectively, in the box carrying the men: her eldest son, Eduin Yoniel, seven, and his nephew child for a year, Joseph Duvuán inseparable playmates.
had touched her that day to take his sister Gloria and Teresa to a compulsory training course for rural teachers. Back home, the lights of the houses in La Joya Martinez could be seen as a Christmas light bulbs. When you exit a corner they ran into soldiers from 24 Regiment Motorized Cavalry assigned to visit the mountains of Sinaloa, and thousands more who comb the country in search of drug traffickers, arms and drugs.
"We were a mile from the house, very close. There was not a sign or a soldier of those who make one on high, "says the farmer and then remains silent, his spirit migrates to that place.
And after 'shot at us after a full-time.
The Adam Abel that night he felt a bullet in the hand holding the steering wheel. With the moving van, got out of the vehicle with their hands up and shouted:
- Do not shoot, I bring my family, children come!
but was shot in his other hand. Gusts were embedded in the truck. And his wife ... his sister ... in their tiny ... in his son and nephew.
He raised his hands to instruct them not to throw, made them high, then. The shots I knocked on the ground, got up and stretched, "recalls a year for this interview.
The truck without brakes, he went into the ravine, wanted to stop but could not: he spoils instead of hands. "I do not know me, I saw that the truck was going but I could not go or stop or anything. The car was gone. He had not put the truck parkin in the same desperate to tell who had family. "
With the truck melted down, he lay on the floor, sought help from the soldiers begged to be notified by phone to his family, but no one answered. Everyone was busy, up and down the ravine where the truck crashed, peered into the cockpit, came back up. Were as insane. Asked by radio instructions.
- Help, help! Adam Abel cried while, hoping that a neighbor would hear. In a stroke of self-determination and dragged the still not explained how he took the radio to his mouth, activated and warned: "We just Balearic".
arrive later saw his brothers, his mother and neighbors of the small ranch that believed the soldiers blocked their way. Among all of the truck took the bodies of Griselda and its small Grisel Diosnirely Adanay and Juana. Found wounded but alive Edwin, John, Teresa, José Duvuán and Gloria. They loaded several trucks. In the place were scattered lined school notebooks with drawings of children.
People waited with the wounded in the open field where, according to the military, would be picked up by a helicopter, was a matter of waiting. Were in the open half an hour ... one ... two hours ... until they realized the deception. After discussion with the soldiers tore them permission to carry the wounded to hospital by land, provided to form a convoy led by olive green vehicles playing a macabre game of Pa'lante-pa'tras: trucks leading to advanced maximum of 40 miles per hour, then blocked the road, if not retreated.
- What? Eligio-called desperate Esparza, Adam's younger brother. "That
deserve for attacking the soldiers received in response.
Each time a new military vehicle will be incorporated the convoy was repeated ritual of reviewing even the wounded, dead and associates, pointed their weapons, cutting cartridge if someone peeled and questioned about the shooting.
The child was awakened José Duvuán by pulling the shirt, the little body frisk him, cut his pants to see the wound in the buttocks.
"Madam, what happened? Asked a soldier newly inserted Fabiana Parra, mother of Adam and Gloria, passed in the funeral motorcade.
"The military attacked.
"No, ma'am, how the military? The military did not do that, is wrong "Repulsed his interrogator.
"Instead of asking for reinforcements called for ambulances," he says in the interview Mrs. Fabiana, who heard the story from the chair back to the room where Adam Abel tells the tragedy. Although he had not heard simulated repeating the same story could not repress his angry comment.
The two-hour journey lasted eight. The caravan arrived at half past four Badiraguato the barracks. A crew will not lose vehicles authorized. They waited at dawn, living and dead lying together. The wait was agony in which they saw was draining the lives of wounded self had endured the road.
"I woke up in the car along with the bodies. Told us not to move anywhere until we do not indicate. And we were there. Up to eight down the bodies, "says the grandmother without expression. "By the time we did on the road, some of them, at least two, had come alive." The radio Bu345644
in which the captain of the mission, Candido Alday Arriaga, reported on the events the commander of the Ninth Military Zone in Culiacan, noted a different version, indicating that the approach to catch the van in the dark group he scored high for inspection, but never got the speed, on the contrary, they laid five bullets!
"Military personnel proceeded to repel the attack by firing their guns against the said vehicle and its crew on several occasions, continues the report, and once stopped the fire, he saw an injured person on the road, provided they first aid, locating in the vicinity of the car apparently a bag of marijuana. "
the NHRC's research brought to light another truth: members of the battalion not only innocent citizens shot and left to die survivors also wanted to blame the tragedy. Adam Abel while lying on the floor begging to call his family, they moved to falsify evidence of facts.
Eight of the soldiers who fired were high (seven with marijuana, one with cocaine and methamphetamines). One could not stop laughing when people, worried, assist victims. The neighbors remembered drinking early at the foot of the road.
Cape Health
Eladio Pérez Arriaga himself warned his colleagues to pick up the children traveled, but was ignored. In the hospital of Culiacan, where he was hospitalized for "acute stress to subjective emotional numbing, reduction in conjunction with environment and re-experiencing the traumatic event "in his delirium he repeated:" No, no children ... "
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Children and minors in the "war" Calderón
From December 2006 to December 2009, the government alleged war Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa claimed the lives of 823 children. Only the first four months of this year, another 90 children have been killed, says the Network for Children's Rights in Mexico (redeemed).
The Alternative Report on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict rests : "The growing number of victims of violence generated by criminal and sometimes even uncontrolled response by the police or armed forces, encouraged to review the viability of the security policy of the current government. "
The protocol seeks to identify what needs to be addressed in the legislation so that children do not have any link with armed and violent clashes. In this way, touches on topics such as voluntary or compulsory military recruitment and participation in hostilities.
"Although the 'war' against drug trafficking is not formally considered an armed conflict," says Juan Martín Pérez García, executive director Redim-should be considered as such. " He argues that the firepower of criminal groups is more extensive and powerful than the State, and "collateral damage" to civilians have suffered make the fight against organized crime, armed conflict singular.
Beyond the deaths, the Red alert on the situation of children being recruited by the Army and organized crime. According to the Third work report of the Secretary of National Defense (SEDENA), in 2009, in the eradication of marijuana and poppy crops, involving young people doing their national military service in advance (children under 18 ) and went to military school.
Meanwhile, up to 30 thousand children are cooperating with criminal groups and are involved in the commission of crimes such as drug trafficking and human trafficking. The Redim argues that the federal government's response, which is closer to criminalize than prevention, further away from the access of children to their rights, led to those already engaged in violence to respond more aggressively.
20 years ago that the Mexican government signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child and yet there are no provisions to ensure their protection in armed conflict singular. The Mexican government favors the "war" against drug trafficking and passes over the rights of vulnerable populations, says the civil partnership. Children
recruited
Recruitment of children is prohibited in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, but under Mexican law, is not criminalized conduct. While the Code of Military Justice is poor for war crimes, nor the Federal Criminal Code or any other law sanctioned the enlistment of minors.
By contrast, military law allows compulsory and voluntary recruitment, warns Alternative Report on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict .
Law on Military Service, in Articles 5 and 11, provides an exception for which adolescents 16 to 17 years to anticipate their incorporation to fulfill their military obligations. In addition, the Army can support active volunteers under 18 years and over 16 units in transmissions or technical preparation, under contract with the state.
redeems notes that the Department of Defense emphasizes the benefits of voluntary recruitment, comprehensive medical services for military and their dependents, benefits, household, holiday periods, pension, travel services, and scholarships. Because young people who enlist in the Army have limited education and employment opportunities, "surely, in a country like Mexico, these benefits represent a significant incentive," explains the civil partnership.
The report states that an unknown number of children of age participating in the National Military Service (SMN) or are recruited on a voluntary basis, for the Department of Defense does not disaggregate data by age.
On the other hand, with a high school diploma, from teenagers to 15 years may enter military academies War Materials, Military Truck, Specialist Air Force, Maintenance and Supply Specialists troops and Air Force. From age 16, the Military College, Military Medical School and military academies of Engineering, Dentistry, Nursing and Health Officers.
For schools in the Secretaría de Marina Armada de Mexico, four of the Heroic Military Naval School admit students after 15 years, from 17, in the schools of the Army Engineers Mexico, Naval Naval Medical and Nursing.
At the risk of children being used by the Armed Forces, the Redim stresses the need to increase the enlistment age. In 2009, to 314 young people of the MTF were given the opportunity to do their service in three months instead of one year, and being formed in the eradication of poppy and marijuana cultivation.
According to the Third Report work of the Secretariat of National Defense, May 25 to August 1, 2009, to materialize these activities in Michoacan. "It's the first time-Redim warns young recruits who engage in the fight against drug trafficking."
Until April 2010, 66 children attending military schools. According to his own military's, 14 had completed 15 years, 23, 16 and 29, 17. Twelve military schools and six school units, with a workforce of 5 000 609 items, including principals, teachers, Dicent and supports a variety of services, conducting the search, location and destruction of narcotics in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, in 2009.
"This shows how these tasks 'seasonal' the army have gained such prominence that are already part of the training of students," said the association also civil.
The Redim suggests are criminalized by a reform of the Federal Criminal Code, violations relating to recruitment children in their participation in hostilities.
The Report notes that there is no legal provision to exclude, explicitly, that in case of armed conflict used children between 15 and 17 who voluntarily enlisted or are providing military service advance: "The silence of the law leaves the door open for them to participate in hostilities."
Regardless of age, students of military schools can be tried in military courts as adults. The only difference lies in the penalties under 18 years, who are half those for adults. Hence the demand Redim, if breaking the law, those children who attend military schools to be judged in civil courts, so that they apply the provisions of the justice system for adolescents.
For Juan Martín Pérez García, shares of Army recruiting, "we demonstrate that there is a look at all the Mexican state to respect the rights of those under 18 who have to be protected and not exposed. Place them at unnecessary risk. " Children
in organized crime
According Report, up to 30 thousand children are cooperating with criminal groups and are involved in the commission of 22 types of crimes, from drug trafficking to kidnapping and trafficking people.
gradually, he says, the children end their criminal careers in the most important tasks and violence. Thus, the smallest working as guards, while the largest will handle the drug, and from age 16 as hired killers.
However, this process is not always linear and age is not proportionate to the seriousness of crimes: "Currently, the tasks are allocated depending on the specific criminal skills and abilities of each boy and girl concerned, regardless of their age. "
For children, the crime means rewards, recognition and money that society does not give them legally. With no other alternatives, resources to crime: "When the lack of life options combined with easy access to drugs and weapons, and violence permeates the neighborhood, joining organized crime is a tempting option. "
Given this situation, the response of State sets out to redeem it, is to focus on the criminalization and militarization. Considering that organized crime is just a public safety issue and not a social problem, "it responds with police measures rather than preventive measures," he observes.
According to the civil partnership, it increased the conditions that deny children access to their fundamental rights and caused those who are enrolled in violence respond more virulent. However, he acknowledges, to date there is no known program focused on blocking the flow of children who each year join criminal groups.
"By failing to develop preventive measures, you run the risk of normalizing violence," states the executive director of the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico, Juan Martín Pérez García.
violence and impunity
Since the beginning of the war on drugs, more than 900 children have lost their lives, estimates redeems. In Baja California, Chihuahua, Durango and Sinaloa, the headquarters of organized crime groups, have increased voluntary manslaughter against young people aged between 15 and 17 years up to 543 percent.
In 2006, the Committee on the Rights of the Organization of the United Nations urged the Mexican government to properly investigate cases of violence and abuse against children in order to prevent the perpetrators go unpunished . However, the gravity of the death toll adds impunity and the opacity with most of the cases treated, mentioned Pérez García. "There are two types of stakeholders: people linked to organized crime and the authorities who are in combat."
The executive director Redim thus refers to the fighting in the crossfire between soldiers and criminals, which is far from determining responsibility because, among other things, the military court: "It makes weaker the institutions of the Army because impunity allows it to be less professional in their work. This not only professional merit, but care and respect for human rights. "
The National Commission on Human Rights considers that in the past five years, the Mexican army's participation in tasks of public security has meant that 500 per cent increase in complaints against him for human rights violations.
paradigmatic case of the responsibility of the armed forces, defines the activist, is the killing of the brothers Salazar Almanza. On April 3, in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Martin and Bryan, five and nine, were killed by soldiers who shot them while traveling to the beach. In the attack, grenades were used.
On board the truck, Tahoe, were, in addition to his parents, his sister Lucero, Jennifer and Yesenia, 10, eight and three years old, respectively, and the married couple by Charles Rangel and Vanessa Carmona Velasquez and her baby three months. According to those affected, by passing a military checkpoint, the soldiers were shot for no reason.
April 30, Children's Day, Jose Luis Chavez Garcia, attorney general Military disavowed all responsibility, the Mexican army, "without giving priority to the testimony of survivors, allowing speculation and increases distrust of the actions taken," says the Redim.
In the case described Pérez García, testimony is false, altered the crime scene and the denial of participation to the highest military levels. "How seriously the Mexican government is taking steps to ensure that this never happens again? Everything that happens in this case is grotesque and talks about how the different levels involved federal authority to cover up the crime, "he says. Judge
that, by placing as exemplary, the case may be a good opportunity to avoid a repetition, but the experience confirmed otherwise. As in other cases, you may not translate into restitution or institutional, activist laments.
"The army reflects Pérez-García, is a state institution and therefore can not be a sphere of impunity. It is made for the use of force, but their mission is to be committed to enforcing the various areas of law. "
After public and media pressure, Felipe Calderón received and Martin Salazar Cinthya Almanza, who had requested their constitutional right to a hearing, to hear them directly and ordered a thorough, impartial and attached to the right.
Redim For another case that it is paradigmatic of Montserrat and Carlos Miranda Mireya Delgado. April 14, during clashes between gunmen and federal police in the German avenue Costera in Acapulco, Guerrero, brothers of 12 and eight years old were killed by gunfire from AK-17 rifles.
Given the impunity of the cases, it is rare to stop Antonio Rocha Ernesto Reyes, alleged participant in the incident, which was made available to the Attorney General's Office for the crime of rape Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives.
Unfortunately, the Chief Executive reiterated the Redim, not all cases reach that level. Of the 22 000 deaths in the war on drugs, there are only 1 000 200 preliminary investigations, "Even considering massacres, that would lead to an average of a murder investigation for every 20. In many countries there is no preliminary inquiry, then it is difficult to seek justice. "
From this perspective, in cases that rely on organized crime, "the State is co-responsible for not guarantee any kind of justice or reparation to the victim."
the opposite side, exposed Pérez García, if investigations are carried out resulting in the detention of minors who work for the organized crime, there is no assurance that their rights are respected. Since there is no clear definition of the field, whether local or federal, in which minors will be prosecuted. There is no guarantee that they are judged accordingly.
Until the guilty are punished, not even certain about the exact number of children who have been injured or killed due to combat organized crime. Both the Ministry of National Defense and the Navy admitted that these data do not exist, as the response to the request of the redeemed through the Federal Institute of Access to Information.
"It's very relevant when these institutions are that they orchestrated this war. There is a clear intention of not sharing information is so fragile, "says the executive director of the civil partnership. says that the data dumped by the media and organizations defending human rights fail to reflect reality, since there is underreporting of cases are unknown.
Pérez García concludes that the State must assume its responsibility as Mexico has signed international conventions. Warns that the actions will remain fragmented in the country while there is no comprehensive system of protection of rights of children. "Children are the future, are the present. Citizenship develops from now and not when they turn 18 "states.
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