El Salvador death squads targeting criminals-Church

“A spike in the number of murders of gang members and criminals in El Salvador is raising concern that resurgent death squads are carrying out “social cleansing,” the Catholic Church said on Thursday.

Last year, 3,812 people were murdered in the Central American nation where a civil war between Marxist guerrillas and the right-wing government raged from 1980 to 1992, up from 2,993 killed in 2004.”

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