Kids kill kids in crime-mired Guatemala
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VILLA NUEVA, Guatemala  - On New Year's day, six-year-old Evelyn Isidro went down the block in a shanty town near Guatemala City to buy a diaper for her baby brother. She never made it home.
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Since the Acteal massacre, on Dec. 22, 1997, dozens of people have been arrested and convicted. But the case remains as foggy as the impoverished Indian village in Chiapas State.
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Three children have been killed by a landmine in Pakistan&#39;s tribal region of South Waziristan, officials say. The children, including two brothers and aged between nine and 13, triggered the mine near the main town of Wana, they said.
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A 15-year-old youth opened fire on classmates at his school in southern Argentina, killing three students and wounding five others.
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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The slayings were shocking enough by themselves: In February, an out-of-work mechanic allegedly abducted, raped and killed an 11-year-old girl. In August, six people were bludgeoned to death in what was believed to be a dispute over a video game. The news that followed arrests in both cases was even more alarming: The accused murderers had recently violated probation and probably shouldn't have been on the street.
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Guatemala's president says organised crime gangs ordered the murder of four policemen  held in a top security jail.
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Central American authorities have asked the FBI to help solve the murder of three Salvadoran representatives to Central America's regional parliament in Guatemala this week.
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The crime scene was horrific: four slain children tucked in their beds and their father's body hanging from a bannister. The mother was missing.
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Gunmen shot and killed South African reggae star Lucky Dube in front of his children in one of the country's highest-profile murders, uniting political rivals to call for action against violent crime.
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By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN  NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A dozen Guatemalans filed a federal human trafficking and racketeering lawsuit against a large nursery Thursday, claiming they were taken to Connecticut without their consent, forced to work nearly 80 hours a week and paid less than minimum wage.
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Guatemalan police responding to a neighbor's report of strange odors and a crying infant found an 18-month-old girl bawling beside the bodies of two other children and two adults, one of them apparently her pregnant mother.
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Almost 3,000 crimes were committed last year by suspects too young to be prosecuted.  Should children face charges?
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Eight people die in a four-hour gun battle between police and thieves in a suburb of Guatemala City.
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Four Guatemalan policemen held over the murders of three Salvadorean politicians are shot dead in prison.
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While jailed in their home country, Salvadoran leaders of the MS-13 street gang directed fellow members in suburban Maryland to commit violent crimes, including murders, federal officials said yesterday.
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Suspected Marxist rebels massacred 16 peasants, including women and children, in a remote area in lawless Arauca province, police said Saturday.