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San Salvador - The year 2009 began
with 689 murders between January and
February in El Salvador according to
statistics published in this capital on
Monday.
If this trend continues, the country will
finish this year with over 4,500 homicides,
the largest figure since President Elias
Antonio Saca took power in 2004, and
possibly in the last decade.
National Civil Police General Director Jose
Luis Tobar, quoted by El Faro weekly,
attributed most homicides to the gangs
called maras and escape of Saul Turcios
Angel, a.k.a. El Trece, together with a
group of gang members.
However, Human Rights Public defender Oscar
Luna disagreed with that assertion, saying
more than one person is responsible.
"I think the issue is not being confronted
seriously. The policies have failed and
there has not been a true diagnosis," said
Luna.
The ombudsman denounced that the government,
instead of adopting measures to prevent and
solve the social problems, implemented the
anti-maras law, which protected massive
captures of youths, many of whom were
children.
"The measures have not been the most
appropriate and they continue improvising,"
he stated.
The human rights ombudsman said crime rates
will increase if we do not adopt appropriate
policies to prevent and investigate crime
and as long as we lack an efficient justice
system to punish those responsible.
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