"Stop killing, or they will pay too," Mr. Bouquele via Twitter, uploading a video showing prisoners, barefoot, in their underwear, as they are led out of their cells by officers in riot gear, then forced to put their hands on their heads, led in a crouching position, trolled, with prison guards checking them with batons on their necks and pulling them by their hands, which are handcuffed behind them, sometimes beating them, into a prison yard, where some fall down while others are forced to sit on the floor.
"We have 16,000 homeboys (gang members)[/B] under our authority, in addition to the 1,000 arrested in the last few days," he continued. "We confiscated everything from them, even the mattresses where they sleep, we give them rationed food and now they won't even see the sun."
The head of state had already signaled that prisoners would henceforth be confined to their cells 24 hours a day.
El Salvador's parliament, at the demand of President Buquele, approved on Sunday the imposition of a state of emergency for a month in the small Central American country to combat the violence of the "maras", the gangs which are mainly engaged in drug trafficking and extortion and which are believed to be responsible for the bloodbath of recent days. The gangs, the largest of which are Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18, number some 70,000 members in El Salvador, according to law enforcement estimates.
Source: CNA
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