Kids killed in Honduras for refusing to join gangs
Kids killed in Honduras for refusing to join gangs
May 10, 2014 12:21 pm
TEGUCIGALPA: The cry of the grandmother was gut-wrenching as she watched the burial of her grandson, the second killed in just days in a horrific wave of violence against children in Honduras.
Kids, even very young kids, are often killed if they refuse to join powerful street gangs, a scourge plaguing the poor Central American nation reputed to be the world’s most violent place.
The wave of murders is one of the most pressing problems facing the new government of President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
“Don’t leave me, my children!” the woman cried.
This second grandson was only seven years old. He was shot and tortured, his body found wrapped in a sheet and dumped in a vacant lot in San Pedro Sula, north of the capital, Tegucigalpa.
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