Here's a decent story on AJE.
It's about kids, and those kids could be anywhere in the world where there is constant exposure to gunfights, killings, and other violent behavior, that those kids are seeing on a daily basis.
Seeing gun fights as just a regular part of your day.....think about that for a moment, folks.
And think on the long-term psychological aspects that it may very well have on yourself if you were a young boy or girl who is constantly exposed to such actions.
You'd probably wind up in jail later on as an adult as you figure that this is the normal way of doing things when you want revenge on someone, or because of the constant exposure to violence you had when you were a youth, you abuse your wife on a regular basis for what-ever reason.
Or because some of the things you've been exposed to when you were a youth, were drug gangs and drive -by-shootings.....and equally as bad......you join the local drug gang as you mature in age.
Ready for jail, yet??
You may also experience depression, anxiety, a shortened life span due to constant stress, illness, and a host of other medical ailments.
....just some of the things that can and do happen to people who've been exposed to violence in one form or another.
Remember all those things that you heard before that if someone is sexually abused when they were young, they abuse when they become an adult??.......probably not much different with exposure to violence, I'd say.
So here's an short news video from AJE on just such things:
Here's a few things that are related to that city's crime and how the population there copes with such activities:
Mexico's escalating war on drugs is supposed to be targeting the violent gangs running the trade, but in the city of Ciudad Juarez it is the children who are increasingly being caught up in the conflict.
Drug violence has spilled into the city's schools, playgrounds and streets.
That's very similar to how the population in Gaza City cope and what they have to deal with. Stray bullets and getting hit by either your own side or by the Israeli soldiers. Who, IMO, have become much like WW II Nazis.,,,,,, The population of Ciudad Juárez had to change their daily routine and many try to stay home in the evening hours. Public life is almost paralyzed out of fear of being kidnapped or hit by a stray bullet
I do believe that I did speak of at one point how the population there has to deal with these same things too. Except that it more or less involves the annihilation and deliberate destruction of an ethnic group all over Palestine.
There in Ciudad Juarez, according to the above report, it's kids and their families that apparently are afraid of being kidnapped.
there's more of course on this city in which the population, apparently have to deal with:
So now think again on the psychological effects on kids as they mature......."Mexican authorities report that more than 1,800 people have been killed in the city since January 2008."...... severed heads were discovered in ice boxes, along with notes to rivals in the drug-wars. Beheadings, attacks on the police and shootings are common in some regions
I really don't think that kids grow up normal as they would elsewhere in the world where kids can grow up without seeing the kind of violence that must be experienced there.
Or anywhere else for that matter where violence is a common occurrence.
Now here's something that is an interesting note:
I can't say for sure, but I'm going to make a guess here.In September 2009, 18 patients at a drug rehabilitation clinic ..... were massacred in a turf battle.......The authorities had no immediate suspects or information on the victims
Since Mexico is known for it's corruption, as anywhere else where drugs are a common commodity and the trade of drugs rivaled for between gangs, do you think that the cops in Ciudad Juarez were bribed or were corrupted in some way by the gangs to be quiet on the issue??
The possibility is open, you know.
LIke I say...the possibility is wide open.Plagued by corruption and the assassination of many of its officers, the government is struggling to maintain Ciudad Juárez's police force
Here's the link to the above quotes:
Pretty sad overall, I'd say.
In the video, there apparantly is some education for kids by some teachers in how to avoid being caught up in the gun fights.
Education for appropriate environment, obviously.
that's a good thing.
But it would not be necessary if such gang related activities and drug activities were'nt present.
Unfortunately, they are so it is at least a good thing to see this kind of education for the kids.
In the video, it also briefly mentions of kids being recruited by the gang members. That's sad, isn't it??
Here's the video:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ndHWiSi0w"]Kids caught in Mexico's drug war[/ame]
And here's the news link to AJE:
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