Guatemala City.- Humanitarian organization, Group of Mutual Support, GAM, Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo de Guatemala, has released the latest data on lynching's and mob violence in Guatemala. According to GAM in 2008 there where 8 deaths caused by mob violence and 102 injured. In 2009, to this date, there are 44 deaths and 151 injured. The Supreme Court of Guatemala states the figures as 41 deaths and 211 injured. The difference of the figures could be due to a different cut of dates of the statistics, or different methodologies applied to count the incidents.

The increase of deaths caused by lynching and mob violence from 2008 to 2009 is dramatic. It is as dramatic as the number of murders reported during the last year: 5,400 homicides.

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