El Salvador Smashes Tombstones in War with MS-13 Gangs -

El Salvador smashes tombstones EL SALVADOR SMASHES TOMB-STONES. El Salvador is applying a grisly remedy to MS-13 gang claims on territories, including cemeteries. It is sending prison gangs into graveyards to demolish the tombs of street gang members. Specifically, they use sledgehammers and pry bars and target mainly tombs marked MS-13.

Since March, police have imposed a “state of exception” and arrested 56,000 for alleged gang ties. But after gangs killed 62 people in one day, they escalated their crackdown to attack tombstones.

And this occurred at the same time of year that family members customarily visited loved one’s graves. Around the Day of the Dead, prison gangs destroyed almost 80 tombs in San Tecla municipal cemetery. San Tecla is a suburb of the capital city San Salvador. As a result, many mourners could visit graves without fear of the presence of MS-13-related people.

Osiris Luna serves as head of El Salvador’s prisons. They are known for packing in MS-13 gang prisoners like sardines. But Luna says such gang members don’t deserve “any recognition. That’s why we destroyed every trace of these groups. In this country, the gangs no longer have a place.”

From marked beasts to miracle upon miracle

In a sense, by marking themselves with “MS”, they are taking a different mark of the beast. They marking themselves as beasts. Many say they don’t deserve human rights. Because they devote themselves depriving others of rights to liberty and life. They even deprive others of a decent burial in death. So that is why many don’t blame the government for doing the same to them.

But we must pray for miracle Saul-of-Tarsus conversions for such terrorists. And hope that other gang-plagued places like Haiti don’t resort to similar draconian measures. Gang warfare has thrown Haiti into such political, economic and social turmoil that the UN fears to intervene. Moreover, gangs have forced almost 100,000 to abandon their homes for squalid refugee camps. So Haiti needs miracle upon miracle to deliver it from such evils.

One last note about MS-13 gangs in El Salvador: many receive funding from MS-13 gangs in the US. Two recently convicted MS-13 leaders had charged businesses rent in Langley Park, MD. For what? For the privilege of operating in territory claimed by MS-13. Later, proceeds from this “rent” and from illegal drug trafficking went to gang leaders in El Salvador. In order to dodge the law, they used structured transactions and intermediaries. And so this hidden gang network has become an international mob.

Photo by Attila Lisinszky on Unsplash

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