• PARADE: A vigilante group operating in a poor and mountainous area of Guerrero -in Southern Mexico- presented Wednesday, a group of children between the ages of 6 and 16 displaying firearms, supposedly to protect against a local crime group known as Los Ardillos.
• PREPARING: “We are also training them for them to take care of their younger siblings when they go to the field”, said vigilante leader Bernardino Sanchez Luna, who added that at least 28 members of the community police force have been killed in the past months.
•MASSACRE: Right in the Northeastern area of Guerrero, the Chilapa municipality in Guerrero (pop. 129,000) has been at the crossroads of a 10-year long wave of violence that has left more than 1,500 deaths. Last Friday, 10 staff members of a local music band were killed.
• NOT JUSTIFIED: “We join you in requesting authorities, to fight this surge (of violence) more forcefully. However, the involvement of minors is not justified as a means to get attention”, said the Guerrero state human rights commission (CDHEG) regarding the use of children.
