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Mob-style retribution on the streets of Guatemala

Mob-style retribution on the streets of Guatemala. A report on a lynching through the eyes of the police and media in Guatemala. Two men who had been accused of stealing a radio and kidnapping a man, were arrested. However police were overwhelmed by a crowd of 1,500 people who decided to take them and then embark on a horrific example of vigilante justice.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

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