"It reminds me of a quote from ' The Night Of The Generals' that went something like 'What is admirable on a grand scale is abhorrent on a small scale', " commented another CNN reader known as Davidji, referring to the 1967 movie about a Nazi murder investigation during World War II.
The murder rate in Ciudad Juarez, which was widely seen as the world's murder capital in 2010, has been on a striking decline.
Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador have some of the highest murder rates in the world.
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According to the UN, South Africa has the second highest per capita murder rate in the world.
But city residents say that "murder capital of the world" is an undeserved label that is hurting local businesses.
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In recent years, Guatemala has had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, according to the United Nations.
But Central American leaders, whose countries suffer some of the highest murder rates in the world, say they plan to debate the issue further.
Discua oversees a unit of soldiers, often masked to protect their identities, who patrol the streets of San Pedro Sula, the so-called murder capital of the world.
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In recent years, Guatemala has had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, according to the United Nations: 40 homicides per 100, 000 inhabitants in 2010.
Although that is 1% fewer than during the same period in 2011, it is probably still enough to keep Honduras at the top of the world's murder table for another year.
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South Africa has the world's highest murder rate: 115 per 100, 000 population, compared with 23 in second-place Brazil.
South Africa has some of the world's highest murder rates, with nearly 50 people killed each day in the nation of 50 million.
In Honduras, which last year had the world's highest murder rate, at 82 killings per 100, 000, the president has called for foreign help.
Yet South Africa still has one of the world's highest murder rates, at 37 per 100, 000 inhabitants: six times America's rate and nearly 20 times Britain's.
The second world war saw mass murder (in the Holocaust, notably) or wilful killing (the nuclear strike on Hiroshima, the firebombing of Dresden, the siege of Stalingrad) of tens of millions of non-combatants.
The government of Israel and UNESCO will sign an agreement to reinforce their cooperation in developing and promoting Holocaust education and combating denial of the mass murder of Jews and other groups in World War II.
Police investigating the murder of a 90-year-old World War II veteran in south London are looking for a homeless man as a potential witness.
For example, the greatest risks even in some of the scariest parts of the world are not of kidnap or murder, but of illness, traffic accidents or violent crime.
The murder rate in Caracas is one of the highest in the world.
The United States, which is the world's biggest oil importer, is screaming blue murder.
Guatemala has a high murder rate - put at 45 per 100, 000 in a 2011 World Bank report.
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South Africa is one of the world's most violent nations, with eight times the proportionate murder rate per day of the U.S., a rape every ten minutes and 2, 642 carjackings a year in Johannesburg alone.
"The world had been against him for five years before this case, for a murder he said he never committed and for which there is no evidence whatsoever, " Jimenez said.
The murder of Lord Mountbatten by the IRA on 27 August 1979 sparked shock and anger around the world.
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My then husband, a detective chief superintendent, appeared on "Crimewatch" to appeal for information in the unsolved 1987 murder of private detective Daniel Morgan, whose business partner Jonathan Rees was alleged to have supplied News of the World's parent company News International with illegally obtained information.
It is hard to imagine that the nations of the world will be more willing to take punitive measures when the result of a violation is not the wholesale murder of innocent civilians, brutally documented by television, but simply the existence of a building suspected of manufacturing illegal agents.
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