Children dismembered, parents threatened: a week in Medellin’s Comuna 13 .
Children dismembered, parents threatened: a week in Medellin’s Comuna 13 .
Monday, 25 February 2013 01:14 Charles Parkinson
Even by the standards of Comuna 13, one of Medellin’s most embattled districts, the violence seen in the past week has been shocking.
On February 16, two 11-year-old boys were abducted by armed men while playing in the neighborhood of El Corazon. The following day police discovered their tortured bodies, dismembered and stuffed in sacks.
The apparent motive for their murder was the fact that by leaving their own neighborhood of Nuevos Conquistadores they had crossed an “invisible border,” a demarcation line between the territories of rival gangs.
According to one report, the children had been told they’d be killed if they return to the area whilst playing there a few days earlier.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/28283-children-dismembered-parents-threatened-a-week-in-medellins-comuna-13.html
