Omicidi

  • Chiapas violence: Hundreds flee cartel battles in southern Mexico

    Hundreds of people have fled their homes in southern Mexico as rival cartels fight for control of routes used to smuggle drugs and migrants.

    Locals described cowering in their homes while bullets flew through their homes during a seven-hour gun fight.

    More than 700 residents had been displaced from their communities near the Guatemala border, an official said.

    The Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG) is trying to wrest the area from the grip of the Sinaloa cartel.

    Criminal organisations like the CJNG and the Sinaloa cartel have been infiltrating the region because of its proximity to the border with Guatemala and important transit routes for migrants, whom they extort.

    The worst-hit communities are Chicomuselo and La Concordia in Chiapas state. Residents of Chicomuselo said 20 people – 18 gang members and two locals – were killed in a cartel battle on 4 January.

    In a statement, the community described “the pain at seeing children and youths trembling in fear and getting sick from having to live through these traumatic experiences”. They also accused the state of failing to protect them.

    However, the Chiapas state prosecutor’s office released a statement five days later saying that it had not received any reports of any killings in the area.

    The military has been deployed to the region but locals say they are now getting caught in the crossfire when the security forces confront the cartels.

    Entire families have left their homes and crossed the nearby Angostura lake by boat to escape the violence over the past days.

    Local journalists said that their villages now resembled ghost towns.

    Chiapas civil protection official Luis Manuel García Moreno told Radio Fórmula that 701 people had fled to the city of Comitán, most of them women and children.

  • Oltre 800 morti in Nigeria a giugno

    Più di 800 persone sono state uccise in attacchi nel solo mese di giugno 2023 in tutta la Nigeria secondo un nuovo rapporto sulla sicurezza. Il rapporto, pubblicato da Beacon Consulting, un’organizzazione di intelligence e gestione dei rischi per la sicurezza, ha indicato che sono stati registrati 460 incidenti, inclusi 239 rapimenti. Gli attacchi, secondo il rapporto, sono avvenuti in 234 aree del governo locale nei 36 stati della Nigeria e nella capitale, Abuja.

    Il presidente Bola Tinubu ha promesso di fare della sicurezza una priorità assoluta nel Paese, ma nel primo mese della sua amministrazione ha già subito un numero elevato di attacchi. Il governo sta lottando per trovare risposte agli attacchi incessanti di gruppi islamisti, banditi e altri gruppi criminali nonostante la nomina di nuovi capi della sicurezza.

    Sabato scorso quasi 40 persone sono state uccise in attacchi separati contro le comunità residenti negli stati centrali di Benue e Plateau. La polizia nello stato di Benue ha detto alla BBC che altri cadaveri sono ancora in fase di recupero.

  • Iran protests: Security forces intensify deadly crackdown in Kurdish areas

    At least 30 anti-government protesters have been killed by security forces in Kurdish-populated cities in west Iran in the past week, a rights group says.

    Hengaw reported that seven had died since Sunday in Javanroud alone, amid an intense crackdown by Revolutionary Guards armed with heavy weapons.

    On Monday, the funerals of two protesters turned into a mass rally.

    In one video, a protester can be heard saying the Revolutionary Guards are firing machine guns at people’s heads.

    The footage, which has been verified by BBC Persian, also appears to show people covered in blood lying on a street and someone shouting that a girl has been shot in the head. Automatic gunfire can also be heard.

    A mother who was worried about the fate of her young daughter and son protesting in the town posted an emotional appeal to people elsewhere in Iran, saying: “Please help us, they are killing everyone, killing our youth. Why aren’t people in Tehran coming out to the streets? Please help Kurdistan, help our youth.”

    The BBC also obtained on Monday a video showing a convoy of Revolutionary Guards with machine guns mounted on pick-up trucks heading to Mahabad, which has also witnessed intense confrontations recently.

    The city’s member of parliament, Jalal Mahmoudzadeh, said at least 11 people had been killed there in the past week.

    In Piranshahr, another small town, tens of thousands participated in the funeral of Karvan Ghadershokri, a 16-year-old-boy who was killed at a protest. A crowd earlier gathered in front of his parents’ house to prevent security forces from stealing his body.

    Every such funeral has turned into a mass rally against the clerical establishment. In response, security forces have taken away a number of protesters’ bodies and buried them in secret, without the presence of their families and friends.

    The protests that have spread across Iran like wildfire over the past two months started in the Kurdish region.

    They were sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa “Zhina” Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who fell into a coma after being arrested by morality police in the capital Tehran for allegedly wearing “improper” hijab.

    The Kurdish region has remained an epicentre of the unrest and has been a focus of the deadly crackdown by security forces.

    Iranian authorities have accused armed Kurdish opposition groups based in neighbouring Iraq of instigating “riots” in the region, without providing any evidence. The videos posted on social media have shown unarmed protesters confronting security personnel.

    Hengaw, which is based in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, said last week that more than 80 protesters had been killed and 4,000 others detained in Kurdish-populated areas alone.

    The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which is based outside Iran, has put the nationwide toll at 419 and also reported the deaths of 54 security personnel.

  • Quasi 200 assassinii nelle fila degli ambientalisti nel 2017

    Il 75enne geografo americano Esmond Bradley Martin, ucciso con una pugnalata a Nairobi all’inizio di febbraio, è l’ultima vittima di una lunga serie di assassini, catalogata dalla Ong Global Witness in collaborazione con il quotidiano britannico The Guardian, tra le fila di quanti si adoperano per proteggere la natura così come è. Il nemico numero uno di bracconieri e contrabbandieri impegnati in traffici illegali di avorio va infatti ad aggiungersi a 197 defenders assassinati nel 2017 per il loro impegno nel proteggere la natura e la terra contro trafficanti, imprese e governi. Ed il problema non investe solo l’Africa: in Spagna due poliziotti rurali sono stati uccisi da un cacciatore dal grilletto facile. Guardando all’elenco, non c’è praticamente angolo del pianeta che non abbia registrato delitti riconducibili a questa matrice: dagli indigeni in Amazzonia ai rangers della Repubblica democratica del Congo, passando dalle Filippine, il Paese più letale per ambientalisti e difensori della terra (41 morti); in Colombia sono stati uccisi 32 attivisti, in Messico 15, in Brasile 46

    Se il 60% degli omicidi contro i defenders è imputabile agli interessi del business agricolo o minerario, la ong Global Witness evidenzia però anche alcuni dati positivi: dopo 4 anni di crescita, nel 2017 il numero di omicidi in Honduras e Nicaragua è rimasto stabile mentre la Dutch Development Bank, che aveva finanziato una diga in Honduras ha annunciato maggior ponderazione degli investimenti in seguito all’assassinio di un’attivista che contestava la costruzione di una diga in Honduras resa possibile dai finanziamenti della banca d’investimenti olandese.

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