KILLER'S PARADISE - This World Series
First shown: THURSDAY 4 MAY 2006 at 2100 BST on BBC Two
You can now watch it online here
Olenka Frenkiel investigates the mystery of murdered women in
Guatemala. Who shot dead a beautiful young law student, Claudina
Velasquez in August last year? Claudina's father tries to find out in a
country where the number of women murdered is soaring.
In
2005, 665 women were killed - 25% up on the previous year, 10 times the
rate in the UK, and not one killer caught. With no fingerprint or DNA
database, no crime or victim profiling and no forensic science, killers
go free and witnesses do not talk. Is it a system designed to protect
the guilty? Or is it simply incompetence?
You can read the article by Olenka Frenkiel that accompanies the documentary and also post your comment on the film here.
For more background, see previous blog post on this.
Update (June 9th): There was an article called investigation into the case of Claudina Velasquez in Guatemalan newspaper El Periodico published recently. Interestingly a member of the public (Raúl Hercules) made the following comment and referred to the above BBC documentary:La periodista del documental le pregunta al presidente Berger por resultados en esclarecer crimenes como el de Claudina y otras mujeres asesinadas en brutales circunstancias y éste le dice que todo está cambiando y que hay mejores y si la periodista no lo ve asi es porque es su opinión. No hay peor ciego que el que no quiere ver.
Ojalá que logremos cambiar esta realidad y que en nuestro país los asesinos no caminen en nuestras calles con impunidad. La reacción de la gente fue de disgusto e incredulidad al ver como nuestro país sigue sumido en una barbarie que no se toleraría en otros lares y nuestras autoridades hacen siguen sumidas en una "realidad."
A sign that it's had some impact on the debate on femicide within Guatemala?
