Facebook Afterlife Threats Come True: Colombian Teens Murdered Off 'Hit List'

A cachet amend cipher wants to see: Three Colombian teenagers accept been dead afterwards their names appeared, forth with 97 others, on a multipart "hit list" acquaint on Facebook, according to assorted all-embracing reports.Even added frightening, badge don't apperceive who is amenable for the killings and the account itself, or the acumen for the alternative of names that arise aloft it, although some of the victims allegedly had ties to associates of biologic gangs.Colombian account website El Espacio letters that it was the plan of Los Rastrojos ("The Stubble"), which has been declared as "one of the a lot of able neo-paramilitary biologic organizations of the country," and has a history of authoritative and afterward through on afterlife threats. Some letters advance that the account could be the plan of battling paramilitary groups -- possibly even Colombia's a lot of infamous, FARC -- that accomplish in the arena about Puerto Asis, a baby city-limits abutting to the southern bound with Ecuador. For the accomplished 10 years, the boondocks has been "ground aught for the US-backed aggressive advance on coca-growing areas in Colombia," according to Mother Jones.The aboriginal two killings took abode on Aug. 15. "On that day, admiral say, 16-year-old apprentice Diego Ferney Jaramillo and 17-year-old CD banker Eibart Alejandro Ruiz Munoz were attempt and dead while benumbed a motorcycle on the alley amid Puerto Asis and the boondocks of Puerto Caicedo," letters CNN. Then, the aboriginal allocation of the account was appear on Aug. 17, absolute 69 names of bounded adolescent men, including those killed, and a warning: Get out of boondocks aural three canicule or ache the aforementioned fate as the victims. The agenda has back been blocked by Facebook. Initially, badge anticipation it was a hoax, like abounding added Facebook afterlife threats the apple over. But if addition account of 31 women appeared online canicule later, accessible apostle Volmar Perez alleged a appropriate aegis board to abode the situation.However, on aboriginal day of the council's meeting, Aug. 20, the anonymous assailants gunned-down 19-year-old Norbey Alexander Vargas and blood-soaked his friend, 16-year-old Juan Pablo Zambrano Anacona, who attempted to accompany them as they fled the arena of the crime. They abide on the lam. No arrests accept been made, and badge accept yet to absolution the names of any suspects to the press.Terror-stricken parents accept already amorphous sending some of the accouchement listed out of the boondocks for assurance as authorities abide to clutter in their attempts to define the perpetrators of both the agenda, timberland boots and the killings. Facebook, for its part, has yet to acknowledge to requests for animadversion from the media.