Hitmen from Mexico’s drug gangs are breaking traditional codes of honour by killing children in a chilling new chapter of a narcotics war that President Felipe Calderon is struggling to control.
In unprecedented attacks, gunmen killed a 3-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl and seriously wounded a 12-year-old girl in the city of Tijuana on the U.S. border this week as they targeted a senior local police officer.
Even hardened residents of Tijuana, where more than 300 people were killed in drug violence last year and severed heads were dumped on city streets, were shocked by photos of young Jose Luis Ortiz’s body riddled with bullets.
“How much longer must we wait for results from the military? Now the narcos are killing our children,” said a Tijuana shop assistant who gave her name only as Fernanda.
Hundreds of police officers and soldiers waged a three-hour gun battle against heavily armed men in Tijuana Mexico Thursday, as residents of a normally quiet neighborhood ran for their lives. One suspect was killed and six kidnapping victims were found dead after the shootout.
In the past week, 14 people have been shot and killed eight people in Tijuana, including two local police officers, as well as a district commander, his wife and his 12-year-old daughter.
In the most recent gun battle which began Thursday around 11 a.m. in the La Mesa neighborhood,reporters for Radio Red FM said that the gunmen fired with large-caliber machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
Tijuana residents have told us they believe the violence will only get worse and that people are afraid to go out right now, avoiding public areas and keeping their children indoors.
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/upda … he-border/
see also
http://blogofthegods.blogspot.com/2008/ … -from.html
In unprecedented attacks, gunmen killed a 3-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl and seriously wounded a 12-year-old girl in the city of Tijuana on the U.S. border this week as they targeted a senior local police officer.
Even hardened residents of Tijuana, where more than 300 people were killed in drug violence last year and severed heads were dumped on city streets, were shocked by photos of young Jose Luis Ortiz’s body riddled with bullets.
“How much longer must we wait for results from the military? Now the narcos are killing our children,” said a Tijuana shop assistant who gave her name only as Fernanda.
Hundreds of police officers and soldiers waged a three-hour gun battle against heavily armed men in Tijuana Mexico Thursday, as residents of a normally quiet neighborhood ran for their lives. One suspect was killed and six kidnapping victims were found dead after the shootout.
In the past week, 14 people have been shot and killed eight people in Tijuana, including two local police officers, as well as a district commander, his wife and his 12-year-old daughter.
In the most recent gun battle which began Thursday around 11 a.m. in the La Mesa neighborhood,reporters for Radio Red FM said that the gunmen fired with large-caliber machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
Tijuana residents have told us they believe the violence will only get worse and that people are afraid to go out right now, avoiding public areas and keeping their children indoors.
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/upda … he-border/
see also
http://blogofthegods.blogspot.com/2008/ … -from.html
Last edited by ATG (2008-12-07 12:03:34)
