El Salvador’s president is defending a policy to destroy tombstones that list gang member affiliations, likening it to Germany’s erasure of Nazism symbols following their defeat in World War II.
’s president is defending a policy to destroy tombstones that list gang member affiliations, likening it to Germany’s erasure of Nazism symbols following their defeat in World War II.
“Because [Germany] had to erase Nazism, and to erase Nazism, they had to be tough on Nazi ideology — not just arrest the Nazis,” the president said Thursday.…we did have a gang problem,” he said. “It’s a similar issue, because they haven’t just done us so much harm, like the Nazis, they haven’t been just ruthless, like the Nazis, they haven’t just been cruel, like the Nazis, but they are also interwoven in Salvadoran society. They are everywhere, even in the cemeteries.
But Mr. Bukele hasn’t apologized for the tough approach to the gangs that’s resulted in the homicide rate being cut in half since last year and his approval rating skyrocketing to 90% in some polls. “We are not prohibiting gang members from having graves,” Mr. Bukele said. “What we are prohibiting is for their tombstone to read: ‘MS-13’ or ‘18th Street Gang.’ In: “Not in graffiti, not at home, not on people’s bodies, not on people’s graves.”
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