The following excerpt is from a March 14, 2010 article published by the Latin American Herald Tribune. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
GUATEMALA CITY – At least 130 children and adolescents have been killed in Guatemala thus far this year, a news agency that covers that segment of the population said in a report.
That number eclipses last year’s total of 523 on an annualized basis and sheds “dramatic light” on the situation Guatemala faces in the remainder of 2010, according to the study, which was presented at an event attended by the heads of the United Nations Children’s Fund, or Unicef, in the country.
The number of minors slain in this violent Central American country “could be higher,” La Nana news agency said, adding that its figures do not include the dozens of children and adolescents who were wounded in armed attacks and may have died.
“Despite government reports about a reduction in violence, it hasn’t decreased, and Guatemalan children and adolescents are targets every day,” according to La Nana, part of a network of alternative news agencies that advocate on behalf of children.
The report was presented Friday, the eve of Non-Violence Against Children Day, which was instituted in Guatemala after the 1990 murder by security forces of street child Nahaman Carmona…
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