Lynching mobs in Bolivia leave behind stuffed faces.

[Saint in Paradise]

With almost a half of Bolivian territory completely out of police control, citizens resort to delivering their own

controversial justice. As a warning from lynch mobs to criminals, rag dolls in faded clothes hang limply by the

neck from telegraph poles.

In the first half of 2013, Bolivia’s Office of the Ombudsman reported the deaths of ten people from such lynchings.

The practice is most common in rural and deprived areas of Bolivia where police and local authorities do not wield

much influence through their scarcity.

 

“Citizens of La Paz no longer believe in the police and have chosen to deliver their own justice. That is why they

put up the rag dolls, they are a warning. They hope to keep the thieves and criminals in line this way,” said RT’s

Bricio Segovia from Bolivia’s capital de facto, La Paz.

 

“Lynching is on the rise,” the organization commented at the time, noting 46 cases between November 2005 and

mid-January 2008. “Often, individuals in these mobs cite “communal justice” to justify barbaric actions such as

hanging, crucifixion, stoning, live burial, and burning,” said a statement from the organization.

 

http://rt.com/news/bolivia-lynching-rag-dolls-524/

 

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[fish fingers]

There's no justice like angry-mob justice

[hutch]

Pediatricians beware

[Grey Crab]

It's basically like the main board, but in real life.

[Horley CTFC Saint]

Pediatricians beware

...and Mockingbirds

[SW5 SAINT]

Pediatricians beware

 

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