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1 | ‘Kun blodige nyheder': Reportager om volden i Honduras | ‘Just Bloody Pictures': Crime Reporting in Honduras |
2 | Reportage i Tegucigalpa, Honduras. | Reporter in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. |
3 | Fotografi af Carlos R. | Photo by Carlos R. |
4 | Ordoñez. | Ordoñez. |
5 | Copyright Demotix. | Copyright Demotix |
6 | Artiklen er skrevet af Ana Arana og Daniela Guazo, der er del af organisationen MEPI (Fundación MEPI) [linket fører til spansksproget hjemmeside]. | This article was written by Ana Arana and Daniela Guazo for Fundación MEPI. |
7 | Dette er anden del i serien om dækningen af kriminaliteten i Honduras. | This is the second part in a series about crime reporting in Honduras. |
8 | Første del kan læses her [es]. | You can find the first part here. |
9 | Læsestoffet i Honduras' største medier efterlader læserne med et billede af begivenhederne, men med en tilsvarende lille forståelse af, hvad der sker i landet. | When reading most Honduran newspapers, readers go away with little understanding of what is occurring in the country. Most crime stories are written without context or explanation and are accompanied by bloody, gory pictures. |
10 | | Local media write these crime stories purposely, as a safety mechanism because of entrenched fear and trepidation among local reporters and editors, according to interviews with reporters and editors and a review of various newspapers in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula by Fundacion MEPI, a regional investigative journalism project based in Mexico City. |
11 | Nyhederne er de typiske ‘røde nyheder' om blodige hændelser uden hverken forklaring eller kontekst. | Number of journalists killed in Honduras. From 2010 to 2013, 28 journalists were killed in the whole country. |
12 | Den uafhængige organisation for efterforskende journalistik MEPI med hovedsæde i Mexico City kontrollerer og analyserer dækningen af kriminaliteten ved at at analysere indholdet i flere aviser i San Pedro Sula og Tegucigalpa. | Click on image to visit article with interactive graph MEPI's analysis found that the news media reports extensively about youth gang criminal activities, but they seldom write about the presence of international organized crime groups and their connections in Honduras to the security forces and to business and political sectors. |
13 | Formålet er at identificere, hvordan pressen i Honduras udfører sit arbejde, samt bestemme graden af den censur, der eksisterer i landet, hvor 29 journalister er blevet myrdet i løbet af de seneste 4 år. | In private interviews, editors, reporters and news analysts, who asked for anonymity recounted strategies applied in newsrooms to protect their staff of violence. Twenty-nine journalists have been murdered in Honduras in the last four years, with 16 of them were killed because of their work, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ. |
14 | Mindst 16 af mordene skete som følge af arbejdsrelaterede årsager, ifølge Committee to Protect Journalists i New York. | MEPI has completed similar investigations on how the media works under threat of violence in the Mexican regional press. Click on image to visit article with interactive graph |
15 | MEPI har siden 2010 foretaget lignende efterforskninger i den regionale presse i Mexico. Tryk på billedet for at besøge siden med den interaktive figur [linket fører til en spansksproget hjemmeside] | The content analysis by MEPI showed that seven out of ten stories about crime published in both San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa media did not include details about the victims, nor the possible reasons for the crime. |
16 | | Gruesome pictures were often spread across the pages with headlines such as: “Found dead after visiting his Mother,” “Three men are executed and placed in plastic bags,” or “Transvestite is taken out of his house and killed.” |
17 | Tryk på billedet for at besøge siden med den interaktive figur [linket fører til en spansksproget hjemmeside] | MEPI's content analysis found that the media has been correctly reporting on a wave of violence of great proportions and premeditation. |
18 | En analyse viste, at 7 ud af de 10 offentliggjorte historier om kriminalitet i San Pedro Sula og Tegucigalpa ikke indeholdt detaljer om hverken ofrene eller de mulige motiver bag forbrydelsen. | According to the stories, 80 percent of the crimes were committed with firearms and 20 percent of the victims were tortured before and after they were killed. |
19 | Der kompenseres for manglen på statistisk information ved at tilføje billeder af blødende kroppe med overskrifter, der foreksempel udtrykker:”Døden indtræffer efter besøg hos mor”, “Tre mænd puttes i plasticposer og henrettes”, “Transvestit fjernes fra sit hjem og myrdes” eller “Går ud for et ærinde og ender død”. | Many of the bodies were found tied up and packed inside black garbage bags, a practice also favored by Mexican organized crime groups. In March 2012, newspaper accounts described an escalation in the number of victims found decapitated or with their bodies cut to pieces. |
20 | I rapporten fandt MEPI nok materiale, som beskriver den udbredte vold og de høje tal. | None of the stories, however, provided reasons as to why the new killing method was introduced in Honduras. |
21 | | A crime reporter told MEPI that the new killing methods could be tied to the Mexican organized crime group, Zetas, former military special forces-turned bandits, who built up a reputation for their brutality in killing opponents, and who have a presence in Central America. |
22 | Firs procent af forbrydelserne blev begået med skydevåben. | “About a year and half ago, bodies in plastic bags started appearing. |
23 | Ifølge resultaterne viser ligene tegn på tortur - før døden indtraf - ligesom den type, der findes blandt den organiserede kriminalitet i Mexico. | The government won't accept it is linked to the Zetas,” he said. Like in Mexico, criminal groups also leave messages at the crime scenes. |
24 | En stor del af de fundne lig ligger bundet i sorte plasticposer. | Some of the messages are carved out in the victims' bodies. |
25 | Tryk på billedet for at besøge siden med den interaktive figur [linket fører til en spansksproget hjemmeside] | Other messages are scribbled by hand in cardboard signs that are placed next to the bodies. |
26 | Tryk på billedet for at besøge siden med den interaktive graf [linket fører til en spansksproget hjemmeside] | In 2012, several victims were found in both Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula with a hand or foot missing. The message was cryptic to the uninitiated. |
27 | Pressen i Honduras trykker beskederne, som de kriminelle grupper efterlader. | But a criminal investigator in El Salvador said that often those mutilations have specific meanings. |
28 | I Mexico besluttede medierne ikke at inkludere disse detaljer, fordi de ikke ønsker at være de kriminelles talerør. | A missing hand means the victim stole; a missing foot, he fled. Both are messages to the victim's friends. |
29 | På samme måde identificerer journalisterne ofrenes beskæftigelse uden at uddybe, hvilken type beskæftigelse der er i stor risiko. | In Mexico, several media leaders were critical of the media when it published the messages left at crime scenes, and most newspapers and television news programs have stopped publishing or broadcasting them. |
30 | De mest udsatte faggrupper er taxachauffører, trafikanter/buschauffører og butiksansatte. | The media agreed that they were becoming messengers in criminal groups' vendettas. |
31 | Dog blev der ikke tilføjet forklaringer, der kvantificerer dødsfaldene eller som forklarer, hvad regeringen gør for at forbedre sikkerheden for arbejdere i disse sektorer. | The Honduran press, however, continues to publish the messages. More than 70 taxi and bus drivers were killed in 2012. |
32 | Fem ud af hver 10. mord i 2012 blev begået af mænd på motorcykel på trods af, at regeringen har forbudt, at to personer kører på samme motorcykel. | They are the two top jobs and occupations that are high risk in Honduras today. But MEPI did not find any stories explaining to readers why these jobs have a higher probability of violence on the job. |
33 | I forlængelse heraf blev fire ud af hver 10. ofre, der er beskrevet i pressen, ikke identificeret. | The stories also do not explain if the government has any program to improve security for workers in these occupations. |
34 | | Similarly, five out of each 10 murders in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula in 2012 were carried out by men who rode as passengers in motorcycles, although there is a law prohibiting two riders in a motorbike. |
35 | Vær opmærksom på tredje og sidste bidrag til serien om dækningen af kriminaliteten i Honduras. | Stay tuned for the third and final instalment in this series about crime reporting in Honduras. |