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TERRIFYING MURDERS This entry was posted on 2/20/2008 10:46 AM and is filed under uncategorized. Murders of Women in Juarez Shock the World
In the small Mexican town of Juarez, since 1993
around 400 women were brutally murdered. No one knows why, but the crimes
continue.
  Nikolina Štanfel Photo:
wikimedia,; AFP
Walking in the desert area of the Mexican town of Juarez, on February 17,
two teenagers searched for details like bottles and cans which they could sells.
Instead of that, they ran into blood stained rocks: three women’s corpses,
barely hidden. After they informed the police, they found a fourth body not far
from the others.
Juarez’s dead women
This is not a singular happening for the town near the Mexican-American
border, which reached world fame and a place in Wikipedia due to many years of
systematical, brutal murders of hundreds
 of women with no known reason and without end.
The wave of murders started back in 1993, with “the dead women of Juarez” case,
followed by many international organizations for human rights and sexual
discrimination, by the state attorney’s office, and by the police. Books have
been written and several documentaries and movies have been made on them.
However, the mystery has still not been solved. The authorities have not found
an efficient way to stop the disapperance of hundreds of women.Kidnapping, raping, suffocation
The main question mark in these crimes is the motive. There are no
acceptable theories on why in 15 years, around 400 women were killed, and
hundreds are still missing. Most of the bodies found, show signs of sexual
violence. Witnesses say that it is not a matter of usual raping, but a matter of
releasing wild instincts. Women had traces of biting, thrusting, hitting and
slitting. According to the autopsy report, about 70% of the cases died of
suffocation or due to beating. The motive is even harder to find because these
women have no specific common features.
They are mainly young women between 17 and 22 years of age, but there also
some victims who are younger, between one and four years old. They are hack
workers in a corporations owned by Americans and which use cheap
a Latin-American workforce. For this reason, many think that these crimes are
connected with the American corporations which have branch-offices in the town.
Working in inhuman conditions, the workers are imposed unreachable norms, and
failure is strictly punished. Although a connection between the brutal murders
and the work in factories has never been proved, they think that it can not be a
coincidence that most of the women killed were working in some of these American
factories.
Unique mystery
 In Ciudad Juarez, like in many other Mexican towns,
there is a high rate of criminality, corruption within the authorities, the drug
business is widespread, poverty is high, and many think that in the whole story
the ‘machismo’ element has an important role, that is the lust for male
domination. However, if we take this element in to consideration, we have to
think that every border Mexican town should have a similar rate of rape and
murder of women. The dead women of Juarez are a unique case, which contributes
to the mystery of the town.The first official victim was Alma Chavira Farel, who was found beaten,
raped and suffocated on January 23, 1993 in Ciudad Juarez. They believe that she
was not the first victim of these murders, but only the first one to be found of
about ten women who went missing before her. By the end of the year, the police
officially recognised 16 more similar murders, but it was never confirmed if
they were committed by the same murderer or if there were more. As the murders
continued year by year, criminologists and a state attorney monitored the
horrifying rate of killing, but they never found out whether it was the work of
one person, a gang or whether the murders have no connection with one another.
Some crimes bore the same ‘signature’ and they think that in Juarez there are at
least three serial killers.
Several arrested, murders continue
The first suspect was Abdel Sharif, who supposedly raped and murdered a
women, and whose former girlfriend filed charges against him for attempted
murder. Sharif was condemned to 30 years in prison, but this did not stop the
murders in Juarez.
 Later, a member of the local gang ‘Los Rebeldes’,
Olivares Villalba, confessed he took part in the murder of 18-year-old Rosario
Garcia. According to him, six more members of the gang took part in the crime.
He was condemned, and part of the gang was arrested and then released. The
police even tried to prove that the murders were the result of a conspiracy in
which Abdel Sharif and his gang were involved, but the did not manage to do so,
and the number of murders only grew.The police hoped to solve the case when a girl who survived kidnapping,
raping and beating in 1999, told her horrible experience. They accused a bus
driver who drove the workers from a factory, and the police began to arrest
several of so called ‘Los Choferes’. They filed charges against them for a total
of 20 murders, but they denied the accusations and stated that the Mexican
police mistreated and tortured them. The American FBI joined the
investigations, but after they went to the town, they left with no more answers
than before and the murders continued.
No woman is safe
These murders have come to a level where we must do everything in our power
to solve them, said a Mexican official and cooperator of the FBI for Dallas
Morning News.
There is no precise information on the total number of victims. Different
associations offer differing numbers, because many women are still considered
missing. The most accepted theory is that between more than 300 women were
killed between 1993 and 2005, and about 400 are missing. In the past years, the
rate of murders has grown. Despite the monitoring of the media, of the FBI, of
the public and of the police, there are still no answers. Only the facts are
certain, no woman is safe in Juareze, and there will be other murders. |
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