Facebook justice: Violent vigilantes in Peru
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-34224196
She set up a Facebook page called "Chapa tu choro", or
"Catch your thief", calling on others to follow her lead, and
her campaign has had a dramatic effect. More than a hundred
similar pages have cropped up in rapid succession, and more are
being created all the time. Many have far more brutal names than
the original, adding phrases like "leave him paralysed", "cut
off his hands" and "castrate him" into the title. These are
encouraging criminal violence against alleged thieves, without
any trial to determine their guilt or innocence. These pages
often feature potentially disturbing imagery, and we don't
recommend viewing the videos or images uploaded. Many of the
groups are open to the public, and seem to quite brazenly show
the revenge being meted out by civilians across the country. On
one page, a video shows a man being stripped naked and whipped
with a belt. In another, a young teenager is being hit so hard
his features become disfigured.
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--Lauren--
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