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Article: GANG VIOLENCE RAVAGES POOR IN JAMAICA'S CAPITAL.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 14, 1999
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Inside the high walls of Admiral Town police station, tired women and children, refugees of Kingston's latest gang wars, begged for food from visitors and wondered when they could go home.
``I came here last night,'' said Tanisha Vassel, 20, balancing her year-old son on her hip. ``I'm afraid of gunmen out there, killing and burning and looting.''
Hundreds of people have fled escalating violence in poor neighborhoods of Jamaica's capital in recent weeks, taking refuge with friends and relatives and creating makeshift camps inside police stations.
Some 500 people have been killed in Jamaica so far this year, including 71 in the past three weeks ...