Ferocity – Networks of Crime and Oppression
24 September 2018 (Wall Street International)* – Ferocity is characteristic of beasts and of humans who become violent, dehumanized and ferocious. One becomes fierce quickly and it is also easy to reduce a human being to its biological dimensions, to its needs.
The testimony below is eloquent and shows how the intersection between economic and social systems is a golden rule, maintained between oppressors and the oppressed:
“Eight weeks”, the bearded soldier resumes, “eight weeks, and all that’s human in human beings disappears. The Kaibiles have found a way to nullify consciousness. In two months, everything that differentiates humans from animals can be extracted from a body. Everything that makes it distinguish wickedness, kindness, moderation. In eight weeks, you can take Saint Francis and turn him into a killer capable of killing animals by biting, surviving by drinking only piss, and eliminating dozens of humans without even worrying about the age of the victims. It takes eight weeks to learn how to fight on any terrain and under any atmospheric condition, and to learn to move quickly when attacked by enemy fire”.
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“Kaibiles are the elite anti-subversion squad of the Guatemalan Army. They were born in 1974, when the Military School was created, which would become the Kaibil Training and Special Operations Bureau. It comprises the years of the Guatemalan civil war, years in which US-backed government and paramilitary forces are confronting, first, disorganized guerrillas, and then the rebel group Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca. It is a war without truce. Students, workers, liberal professionals, opposition politicians end up in the hands of the Kaibiles. Anyone. Mayan villages are devastated, peasants are slaughtered, and their bodies abandoned to rot under the inclement sun.”
(“Zerozerozero” by Roberto Saviano, Publishing Company Companhia das Letras, pg. 90-91)
Surviving in socioeconomic regions where inequality, tyranny, and fear predominate is survival limited and determined by oppressive systems. One way to escape from massive oppression is to work for the system, to help the oppressing machines (becoming a cheater, torturer etc.).
Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos‘ article was published in Wall Street International. Go to Original.
2018 Human Wrongs Watch
Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2018/09/26/ferocity-networks-of-crime-and-oppression/
