AT LEAST 31 Guatemalan girls were burnt to death in a locked children’s home dormitory on Wednesday after trying to flee sexual abuse there.
Dozens more were taken to hospitals in the capital Guatemala City, many with severe burns. Others remained missing and bodies could not be identified as they were so badly burnt.
Grief-stricken parents and other relatives desperately searched for their children and demanded answers, amid suspicions that arson was to blame for the horrific tragedy.
PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and union member, has sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls from National Nurses United to dismantle Ice and related agencies, says MARK GRUENBERG
Susan Galloway talks to ASH REGAN MSP about her “Unbuyable” Bill, seeking to tackle the commercial sexual exploitation of women in Scotland


