Femicide... The Big silence.

Every day we watch on tv or hear on the news about murder, parricide but is not the usual femicide, femicide is a crime establish in all social classes and ethnic groups. This type of crime expresses a sense of ownership and control over women by the men, an action that is supported by the phrase " I killed her because she was mine".

Femicide is the killing of women as a result of extreme violence which ocurrs at both private and public and includes those of their partners, husbands or family members killed by harrasing or rapists, as well as those who tried to avoid the death of another women and were trapped or hurted on this terrible action.

According to figures that are supplied by SERNAM last year, a total of 45 women were murderer in Chile by their husband, ex partners. In the first two weeks of this year specifically in Los Angeles (Chile) and Osorno had already made the first two crimes.

Recently a young woman of 21 years old is the victim number 52 of femicide.

Georgina Nuñez died in the Pudahuel´s hospital where she was brought by her victimizer who shoted her to her throat. She became in the victim number 52 of femicides in this country, she received at last one shot in the neck by her partner who was drugged. She died in the Hospital. She had two children, a boy and a girl.

HOW CAN THIS SITUATION BE CONTROL?

It is neccesary that judges apply existing laws and grant protective measures that are required for woman victims of domestic violence.

It is also neccesary to erradicate violence, is essential to banish all forms of violence for example: violence in schools.

Machismo has always been conceived as the "Karma" between the man and women relationships, being a real obstacle to talk on gender equality. Sometimes women themselves accept this situation without resentment rality of they are being hurt.

By the way, our legislation is not referred to femicide as a crime itself, but it is only considered a crime which is within the context of domestic violence, and there is only two laws that are responsable for dealing with this issue.

This is a complex issue and it is a duty to our authorities to establish mechanisms of protection and they have to put attention and try to take this problem off from darkness, due to the attention caused by the impunity of the perpetrators.