Fashionable to kill
The city, Guatemala. Guatemala's homicide rate is among the highest in Latin America, one of the most violent regions in the world. Where it is fashionable and treated with total indifference to kill women. They do not even investigate the crimes, usually tossing the bodies along with the bag of bloody clothes that could be used for evidence into the coffin. Over six hundred women are murdered every year, and to date not one case has been investigated or solved. Evidence is destroyed, hidden, the victims considered unimportant, a nobody. The police force has been trained for years not to care, so awash in other crimes and concerns in this country.
How did this country get to this despicable state? Since the civil war the country is awash in guns. Give uneducated men the freedom to run around raping and killing and flashing their guns around and they will. This country is proof. The reasoning years ago which has been passed on to the men of this generation is that women were the enemy because they gave birth to the freedom fighters than represent a threat to the government. Such illogical make thinking is why the world today is completely awash in violence. In third world countries to this day women are blamed for not shooting out one male child after another, by being brutalized and condemned. The male population is too backwards to know the decision is passed down by their sperm. A world awash in superstition.
In Guatemala if a girl crosses a line, an invisible line set out by irrational men they are murdered. Domestic violence is very high. Domestic violence is to blame for a portion of the murders, as indicated by police statistics, which show that 33 percent of the victims were somehow related to their murderers. The number of rapes every year is unknown since no crimes committed against the 3rd class of citizens is ever investigated. If a man there wants sex he rapes then kills. Most of the girls killed are very young and were taken for sex and killed afterwards by the gangs so they would not tell. The horror these girls must have endured in unimaginable. We live in a world where a great majority of man believes his needs are above all else.
Since the publication in June 2005 of Amnesty International's report on killings of women, Guatemalan civil society has continued to press the authorities to deal effectively with the killings. As of July 2005, there has been a draft law in Congress to create a National Forensic Institute. However, Amnesty International is disappointed that the draft law does not appear to have government backing.
According to press reports, 531 women were killed between January and October 2005, surpassing the total figure of 527 in 2004. The police have also reported that sexual violence against women has increased.
And like all things, women continue to become ongoing victims to an increasingly violent and confusing world.
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