RIP to the women in Honduras jail massacre

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A horrible news story. Seems a gang broke into the prison and massacred 41 women. Content warning on the news story.

My thoughts with the women and their families, and those injured.

https://news.yahoo.com/gang-behind-slaughter-41-women-045906397.html

How awful, those poor women. It sounds like there was corruption involved with allowing the attackers into the prison so I doubt there'll be true justice even if the actual murderers are caught.

Absolutely fucking horrifying.

I remember watching a doc about Honduras and how it's the most dangerous country in the world to live in as a woman. So much violence and so little justice,

Yes, from the sound of it gang violence is common and violent prison riots have happened before.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-65969092

Earlier article on gang violence, with women often the victims:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-65359336

'Women in particular often become victims of sexual violence and femicides there, with an average of one woman murdered every 28 hours.'

That is a horrific read. Thanks for sharing.

Feminist groups and feminism in honduras:

https://somosmuchas.hn/contexto-y-datos/

https://derechosdelamujer.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/03/house-of-healing-the-honduran-sanctuary-for-female-rights-defenders

Background - including recent election of a woman president:

https://capiremov.org/en/experience/honduras-peoples-feminist-mobilization-to-change-a-bashed-and-indebted-country/

Sorry, did they allow armed male gang members into the prison or were the gang members female?

The BBC report is characteristically unclear.

They say 'people' died, so were there males as well as females? Is it a prison with a male section and a female section? And how the hell can anyone smuggle weapons like those into a gaol?

Hopefully more information will be forthcoming. But how utterly horrendous.

It will be very interesting to see the news coverage on 41 dead women in a prison compared to 5 rich men in a submarine.

It isn't at all clear.

Yes. Is the international community going to mobilise expensive resources to help women in jail in Honduras?

If only.

I take it that members of the respective gangs (all women?) were held in separate parts of the prison but that one gang got access to the part of the jail holding the other gang members. But I could be wrong.

From the Independent:
Officials have said that the violence was the result of a clash between the rival Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gangs...........

Agence France-Presse reported that Delma Ordonez, a lawyer representing family members of the inmates, said that members of a gang entered a part of the prison occupied by a rival gang and set it on fire.

Oh my god, this is horrific

How horrific. Thanks for highlighting this as if hadn’t seen it reported when I looked at the news today

This is a riot within a prison carried out by female inmates who were affiliated to a street gang and attacked other rival inmates.

So it is. I had the impression they'd broken in from outside, but it seems they were in a neighbouring cell.

'inmates identified as members of the Barrio 18 gang were able to get guns and machetes into the prison, or move freely into an adjoining cell block and slaughter all the prisoners there.
... the attackers “removed” guards at the facility — none appeared to have been injured — around 8 a.m. Tuesday and then opened the gates to an adjoining cell block and began massacring women there.'

Horrific.

Yes. 😢

Shocking, no justice for women.

Jesus wept.

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