3 Teens Killed from Facebook Hitlist

[cbdo2007]

3 Colombian teens on Facebook hit list killed in past 10 days

(CNN) -- Three teens who were on a 69-name hit list posted on Facebook have been killed in the past 10 days in a southwestern Colombian town, officials say.

Police say they do not know who posted the list or why the names are on it.

"It is still not clear," Colombian national police spokesman Wilson Baquero told CNN. "This is part of the investigation."

But officials note that a criminal gang known as Los Rastrojos and a Marxist guerrilla group called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia operate in the area.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/24/colombia.facebook.killings/index.html?hpt=T2

[Recursion]

1. The hell it was FARC

Look no further than the US-trained and funded Colombian military.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. My first thought, too.

There is no reason for a "criminal gang" to target people who have no connection with them. And FARC is, by definition, a Marxist revolutionary group - and in accordance with theory, the revolutionary is the fish that swims in the sea of the people. They gain nothing by killing students who they hope to recruit from.

But the government hit squads - they don't need a reason. Just one wrong word, one wrong friend and you make yourself a target of those who want to keep order through terror.

[Uncle Joe]

3. The MO seems to match up more with this Los Rastrojos criminal/vigilante gang.

"Perez, the federal defender of the public, noted that the Los Rastrojos criminal gang is active in Puerto Asis, "executing violent actions, resolving community conflicts, imposing living and conduct norms, intimidating and meting punishment against ... drug sellers and consumers, sex workers, people with criminal and unlawful histories and threatening social leaders, business people, taxi drivers and motorcycle taxi drivers."

I wonder if the government of Colombia has secretly supported this gang?

Apparently some twenty people have already been killed and the light cast by this Facebook exposure now seems to be the trigger for belated government action on a long existing problem.

Thanks for the thread, cbdo.