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Images that reveal violence in Guerrero; 6-year-old children armed with rifles to protect their families

Violence in the country is bordering the population to take extreme and even questionable measures. This Wednesday, 19 children were presented as community police in the municipality of Chilapa de Álvarez and José Joaquín de Herrera, in the southern state of Warrior. These are the new members of the Regional Coordination of Community Authorities (CRAC-PF): minors ranging from 6 to 15 years old and that they are now being trained to combat the violence that plagues the region.

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Each of them was presented this Wednesday by the Regional Coordinator in a kind of military practice in which they presented their weapons and wore the uniform of the Community Police. “Weapons on your shoulder, now!”, was one of the orders they received during the exhibition. Each of the children held his gun, which in some cases was almost as big as them.

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They marched from end to end in the community of Alcozacán, where there is a blockade for 6 days after the murder of musicians of the group “Sensation”, and when they reached the end point of the course they showed the different firing positions.

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Covered with paliacates and caps, each of the “police children” were presented as people trained for the use of weapons, so that defend their families in the face of violence in the region and “because they have seen that the government does not have the capacity or interest to defend indigenous peoples of criminal groups, “said Bernardino Sánchez Luna, one of the leaders.” An applause for these children who struggled to prepare, “he added.

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For its part, the coordinator of the CRAC-PF, David Sánchez Luna, assured the local media that the mobilization of these children aims to request the presence of the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the communities of the state and meet your requirements.

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“We wait for the president in the community to unlock this road from Chilapa-José Joaquín de Herrera, we want you to meet our demands“said Sanchez.

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The coordinator of the CRAC-PF said that the authorities of the 16 villages agreed not to remove the blockade until the president and governor Héctor Astudillo Flores appear and resolve the 29 demands that the peoples are raising since August 2019. In addition to this, they expect the Tabasco to meet with the 24 widows and 66 children who were orphaned as a result of multiple murders in the town during the last year.

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In addition, the Coordinator listed a series of proposals for security in the region from the low mountain of Guerrero.

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It should be noted that this is not the first time a deployment of this nature occurs. In May 2019 the children marched through the streets of the towns of Ayahualtempa and Alcozacán as part of its official presentation to the community. On this occasion, almost 2,000 people participated in the march.

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The murder of the musicians

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Hours before this march, state prosecutor Jorge Zuriel de los Santos Barrila reported that the 10 musicians, among which was a 15-year-old boy, They were killed by the criminal band Los Ardillos.

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“You can establish as probable responsible for these events a cell composed of six subjects of the criminal group that operates in that area and are known as Los Ardillos,” he said.

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For its part, the Regional Coordinator announced that the members of this group were traveling in two vans to the community of Alcozacan to which they belonged. On the way they were ambushed in a checkpoint; when seeing it, both cars accelerated, but one of them was hit by grenades, five men burned to death. The other members
they were hit and slaughtered; His truck was thrown into a ravine.

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