Police commanders have been implicated in drug trafficking, and when U.S. Marines moved into the town of Aynak last summer, villagers accused the local police force of extortion, assault, and rape.
Accused of siding with the Taliban, which was a largely Pashtun movement, the Pashtun villages here suffered extortion, robbery and rape at the hands of the various local militia groups during the past three years and are prime targets for intimidation or violence to keep them from voting.
Murder, kidnapping, extortion, capture and rape drives migrants into hiding or detention in low and middle income countries and transit cities [ 5, 6].
Photo: Webster M. Smith, a cadet at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., is being court-martialed on charges that include rape, sodomy, extortion and assault.
The Green Dragons brought them into United States illegally through a complex network of human traffickers, then baptized them into a world of crime and gang violence, using weapons, drugs, torture, executions, extortions, kidnappings, and rapes all with the excuse of helping these children find the "American Dream".
Police harassment of sex workers is well-documented, and can take the form of assault, unlawful arrests, rape, extortion, and demands for sex or money as bribes [ 24- 29].
Predominantly Central and South Americans using Mexico as a stepping stone to the US, many are the victims of extortion, kidnapping, rape and murder on their journey.
These groups are held responsible for at least 60% of all homicides committed in El Salvador (Wolf 2011) but also are involved, inter alia, in extortion, kidnapping, rape, and the local distribution of drugs.
"There are so many risks from traffickers – of violence and rape and extortion – but people don't have a choice.
Salvadorans have grown used to murder, rape, extortion and humiliation at the hands of the gangs.
