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Juarez murder toll for 2009: 2,657

Update from Molly Molloy, Frontera-list@googlegroups.com

Diario reports the year’s end with 2,657 killings, a 63% increase over
2008.

163 women were killed

66 members of police organizations…this is the only number down from
last year when 71 police were assassinated.

Juan Hernán Ortiz Quintana, director de Ciudadanos por una Mejor
Administración Pública (Cimap), is quoted as saying:
“When a crime is committed here, there is no one to punish the
perpertrators. As long as this situation exists the criminal acts will
continue.”
He considers the murders as ‘the tip of the iceberg.’ “For years we
have said it, when the murders of women were happening we said it,
that this social phenomenon was the tip of the iceberg of all of the
problems in the city: the lack of health services, lack of mobility
and education, and the existence of urban sprawl.”
At that time the authorities said that nothing was happening, but now
the situation has exploded and the citizens are waiting for what the
authorities will say, seeing as how for years the authorities never
gave an effective official answer.
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The article quotes other civil society leaders in Juarez saying pretty
much the same thing.  Demands and demands and no responses.

Norte does not publish today it seems.  There may be a change in the
official statistics before the weekend is out, but this is probably
pretty close to what will be the official number: 2,657.

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