El Salvador: Remains of 24 people found in ex-policeman's garden

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57200081

The remains of at least 24 people have been uncovered at the home of a former police officer in El Salvador.

The graves may hold up to 40 bodies - most of them thought to be women or girls, officials say. Exhuming all the bodies could take another month.

Police believe that the discovery reveals a secret murder ring operating over a decade.

El Salvador has one of Latin America's highest rates for femicide, the murder of a woman or girl because of her sex.

Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chávez, 51, was detained in Chalchuapa this month for killing a 57-year-old woman and her 26-year-old daughter. The former officer, who had previously been investigated for sex crimes, confessed to killing the pair.

But when forensic teams searched his house about 48 miles (78km) north of the capital, San Salvador, they found at least seven pits containing bodies, some of which may have been buried as long as two years ago.

The authorities said the discovery suggested the existence of a murder ring that may have lasted for a decade.
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No words!

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1. violence against women

[malaise]

2. It's global

and cops are part of it

[marble falls]

3. Mary, Mary, quite contrary, hows does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells ...

... and pretty maids all in a row.



Somehow, some way, we have to break the chains of violence against women. I feel shame when big hulking me scares women into "keeping an eye" on me while walking on trails.