Eipä sitä Joulunakaan malta pysyä erossa murhista…
Eli lähellä USA:n rajaa sijaitsevassa Ciudad Juarezin kaupungista on vuoden 1993 jälkeen löytynyt noin 400 murhattua naista ja yhtä monta on hävinnyt jäljettömiin. 1,3 Miljoonan asukkaan kaupunki sijaitsee Rio Granden rannalla rajanaapurinaan Teksasin osavaltio jenkkien puolella. Sijaintinsa johdosta alueella on paljon monikansallisten yritysten tuotantoa, joka on toiminut myös valtaosan uhreista elantona.
Netistä löytyy runsaasti materiaalia asiaa koskien ja lähteestä riippuen uhriluvut hieman vaihtelevat. Alussa mainitut tiedot ovat Wikipedian antia. On selvää että noin suureen määrään mahtuu monia toisistaan irrallisia tapauksia, joissa ainoa yhdistävä tekijä on ainoastaan uhrin sukupuoli, mutta jotain suurempaakin täytyy taustalla olla.
Aihetta sivuaa myös vuonna 2006 ilmestynyt elokuva Bordertown (suom. Unohdetut), pääosissa Jennifer Lopez sekä Antonio Banderas, kuin myös dokumentti borderechoes (http://www.borderechoes.com/) pätkät, jotka olen osaltani missannut. Tiedustelisinkin onko joku palstalaisista kumpaakaan nähnyt ja mitä kokemuksesta jäi käteen?
Meksiko varmasti kykenee tuottamaan omiakin sarjiksia, mutta toki USA:n välitön läheisyys pistää miettimään voisiko väljemmän poliisitoiminnan naapurimaa muodostaa paratiisin jenkkimurhaajille tai vaativille, mutta maksukykyisille jenkkiökyille, joiden tarpeisiin tyttöjä toimitetaan? Toki alueen oma järjestäytynyt rikollisuuskin voi omana huvinaan naisia käyttää eikä, Meksikon ollessa kyseessä, poliisikaan ole epäilysten yläpuolella.
Elokuvan kuvausten aikaan poliisi pelotteli paikallisia kuvauksissa avustaneita ja monilta harvoista murhista pidätetyistä oli ”tunnustusten” yhteydessä mm. sukuelimet saaneet palovammoja ja on maan poliisia syytetty myös pidätettyjen järjestelmällisestä seksuaalisesta hyväksikäytöstä muiden tapauksien yhteydessä.
Mm. USA:n läheisyys, poliisityön epämääräisyys sekä uhrien suuri määrä ovat omiaan siivittämään ajatukset laukkaan, sillä edes Meksikon kaltaisen suurten tuloerojen maassa ei moinen naisuhrien määrä 1,3 miljoonan asukkaan alueella voi olla normaalia. Jotain kertonee sekin että tapausten määrä on johtanut kokonaan uuden sanan muodostumiseen tapausta koskien ("...So many women have died that a new word has been invented to describe what is happening here") 'femicidios', the murder of women; suom. naismurhat, naistenmurhat tms.
Mahdollisia kaviouria on valitettavan monta, joten on vaikea sovittaa raviaskelia yhden ainoan teorian mukaan, mutta ehkä juuri siksi aihe on kaikessa traagisuudessaan myös kiehtova. Sinällään myös ärsyttää että jostain madeleinesta tuputetaan kaikki epäolennaisetkin käänteet ja toisaalla uhrit niputetaan vain luvuiksi, no joo ei toki yllätäkään varmasti ketään. Silti, jos Raisa Räsäsen ja pahaisen Tampereen yhteydessä voidaan spekuloida perverssin diplomaatin mahdollisuudella, niin mitä mahdollisuuksia monikansallisten yritysten "omistama" meksikolaiskaupunki satoine kadonneine naisineen tarjoaakaan...
Ohessa linkkejä ja lainauksia in English
Youtube
City of dead girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICrwidb2zvk
420 Women killed in Ciudad Juarez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S21szFgtwtU
Wiki
”The phenomenon of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, called in Spanish the feminicidios ("femicides") or las muertas de Juárez ("The dead women of Juárez"), involves the violent death of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. Most of the cases remain unsolved”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hom ... u%C3%A1rez
PDF-artikkeli
http://www.chicanafeliz.com/Juarez/AMR4102703.pdf
Laaja kokelma artikkeleita asian tiimoilta mm Amnesty, YK
http://www.libertadlatina.org/Crisis_La ... micide.htm
Amnestyn tekemä video sis. pätkää yhdestä uhrista, tämän äidistä ja ”tunnustaneesta” serkusta
http://www.amnestyusa.org/Artists_for_A ... =22&n3=795
Satojen naisten murhat Juarezissa, Meksikossa.
Tämä löytyi facebookista samasta aihiosta, joten puolueettomuus on jälleen katsojan silmässä.
"Juarez is directly across the Rio Grande from El Paso and is a popular spot for American factories. Since 1993, hundreds--HUNDREDS--of Mexican women who worked at the maquiladoras have been tortured, rape, mutilated, and ultimately murdered. According to Amnesty International, circa 2005, there had been 370 corpses recovered and 400 women were missing.
From the Organization of American States' Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:
"The victims of these crimes have preponderantly been young women, between 17 and 22 years of age. Many were students, and most were maquiladora [workers in foreign owned factories]. A number were relative newcomers to Ciudad Juarez who had migrated from other areas of Mexico. The victims were generally reported missing by their families, with their bodies found days or months later abandoned in vacant lots or outlying areas. In most of these cases there were signs of sexual violence, abuse, torture or in some cases mutilation."
All of which is bad enough, but here's the kicker: the murderer/murderers is/are being allowed to do it. The Mexican feds stopped their investigations in 2006. So what does that suggest? Well, from where I would sit, it would seem that the Federales were given some "compelling" reason to stop the investigation--a reason like, say, somebody in Mexico with a predilection for rape and murder was being allowed to prey on these women in exchange for permission for American companies to build factories over the Mexican border.
What's most disturbing about all this is that the American media have done almost no reporting on the subject at all over the course of the last 14 fucking years, which implicates a whole lot of people in the deaths and disappearances of almost 800 women.
Jesus fucking Christ.
TWO ADDENDA: First, this lovely little response from the Mexican government, via the OAS report:
There are two aspects of this response that are especially relevant. On the one hand, the vast majority of the killings remain in impunity; approximately 20% have been the subject of prosecution and conviction. On the other hand, almost as soon as the rate of killings began to rise, some of the officials responsible for investigation and prosecution began employing a discourse that in effect blamed the victim for the crime. According to public statements of certain highly placed officials, the victims wore short skirts, went out dancing, were “easy” or were prostitutes. Reports document that the response of the relevant officials to the victims’ family members ranged from indifference to hostility.
Second, the OAS report in whole: http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/2002e ... juarez.htm
EDIT 2: Even more shady info, via the OAS report:
---Two men, Gustavo González Meza and Javier García Uribe, were arrested in conjuction with Las Muertas (great, two men for 800 people gone). Reports afterwards found that their confessions to certain murders were given after they, while in police custody, both acquired "multiple burns on the genitals."
---Gustavo González Meza died in mysterious circumstances in his prison cell.
---González's lawyer, Mario César Escabado Anaya, was shot and killed by judicial police (!) before the case made it to trial. Escabado's case was built on the fact that his defendant was tortured into giving a confession.
---Journalists Samira Izaguirre, José Antonio Tirado, José Loya, and an unnamed journalist in the Chihuahua province all reported receiving anonymous threats and harassments while they worked on stories about Las Muertas.
---The "official files" on many of the murders, including 25 in the first year, consist of bags containing the victims' bones.
---When many of the victims' families attempted to report the victims missing, they were told by police that they had to wait 48 further hours to file reports because the "girls had certainly just run away with boyfriends and would return."
---Evidence circa 2002 indicated that as many as 76 of Las Muertas may have been murdered by the same person.
---Several street gangs, as well as Abdul Latif Sharif Sharif (the man who supposedly "commanded" the gangs to murder women), have been detained for years, some since 1996; meanwhile, the pattern killings (murders which suggest a consistent context/method and therefore a common murderer) have continued unabated."
Sinällään saman toistoa, mutta tämän mukaan mm. vuoteen 2002 mennessä 76 uhrin jäänteet viittasivat yhteen tekijään
"Juarez is directly across the Rio Grande from El Paso and is a popular spot for American factories. Since 1993, hundreds--HUNDREDS--of Mexican women who worked at the maquiladoras have been tortured, rape, mutilated, and ultimately murdered. According to Amnesty International, circa 2005, there had been 370 corpses recovered and 400 women were missing.
From the Organization of American States' Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:
"The victims of these crimes have preponderantly been young women, between 17 and 22 years of age. Many were students, and most were maquiladora [workers in foreign owned factories]. A number were relative newcomers to Ciudad Juarez who had migrated from other areas of Mexico. The victims were generally reported missing by their families, with their bodies found days or months later abandoned in vacant lots or outlying areas. In most of these cases there were signs of sexual violence, abuse, torture or in some cases mutilation."
All of which is bad enough, but here's the kicker: the murderer/murderers is/are being allowed to do it. The Mexican feds stopped their investigations in 2006. So what does that suggest? Well, from where I would sit, it would seem that the Federales were given some "compelling" reason to stop the investigation--a reason like, say, somebody in Mexico with a predilection for rape and murder was being allowed to prey on these women in exchange for permission for American companies to build factories over the Mexican border.
What's most disturbing about all this is that the American media have done almost no reporting on the subject at all over the course of the last 14 fucking years, which implicates a whole lot of people in the deaths and disappearances of almost 800 women.
Jesus fucking Christ.
TWO ADDENDA: First, this lovely little response from the Mexican government, via the OAS report:
There are two aspects of this response that are especially relevant. On the one hand, the vast majority of the killings remain in impunity; approximately 20% have been the subject of prosecution and conviction. On the other hand, almost as soon as the rate of killings began to rise, some of the officials responsible for investigation and prosecution began employing a discourse that in effect blamed the victim for the crime. According to public statements of certain highly placed officials, the victims wore short skirts, went out dancing, were “easy” or were prostitutes. Reports document that the response of the relevant officials to the victims’ family members ranged from indifference to hostility.
Second, the OAS report in whole: http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/2002e ... juarez.htm
EDIT 2: Even more shady info, via the OAS report:
---Two men, Gustavo González Meza and Javier García Uribe, were arrested in conjuction with Las Muertas (great, two men for 800 people gone). Reports afterwards found that their confessions to certain murders were given after they, while in police custody, both acquired "multiple burns on the genitals."
---Gustavo González Meza died in mysterious circumstances in his prison cell.
---González's lawyer, Mario César Escabado Anaya, was shot and killed by judicial police (!) before the case made it to trial. Escabado's case was built on the fact that his defendant was tortured into giving a confession.
---Journalists Samira Izaguirre, José Antonio Tirado, José Loya, and an unnamed journalist in the Chihuahua province all reported receiving anonymous threats and harassments while they worked on stories about Las Muertas.
---The "official files" on many of the murders, including 25 in the first year, consist of bags containing the victims' bones.
---When many of the victims' families attempted to report the victims missing, they were told by police that they had to wait 48 further hours to file reports because the "girls had certainly just run away with boyfriends and would return."
---Evidence circa 2002 indicated that as many as 76 of Las Muertas may have been murdered by the same person.
---Several street gangs, as well as Abdul Latif Sharif Sharif (the man who supposedly "commanded" the gangs to murder women), have been detained for years, some since 1996; meanwhile, the pattern killings (murders which suggest a consistent context/method and therefore a common murderer) have continued unabated."
Sinällään saman toistoa, mutta tämän mukaan mm. vuoteen 2002 mennessä 76 uhrin jäänteet viittasivat yhteen tekijään