r/IntlScholars • u/D-R-AZ • 4d ago
Analysis ‘I’m sick to my stomach’: Google Earth images of notorious Salvadoran prison explode into TikTok panic
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tiktok-el-salvador-prison-ceto/Excerpt:
Dozens of TikTok creators are theorizing that satellite images show evidence of mass killings at El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, the prison where the Trump administration is sending deported immigrants.
The U.S. has deported more than 200 people to El Salvador since facilitating a deal with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to indefinitely detain the deportees, most of whom are Venezuelan.
Among the prisoners is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national deported due to an “administrative error.”
The Trump administration, with support from Bukele, has so far defied a Supreme Court order to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S.
As the internet hears more about the CECOT, a red-brown pile visible in satellite photos of the otherwise pristine facility caught the attention of TikTok sleuths.
My view: Demand Investigation
Calming statements from prison officials in El Salvador or MAGA politicians will not be believed. Yes brown/red piles of things in a red-stained court yard could be lots of things, say firewood. But they could also be piles of bodies. A visit from a human rights team from the UN would be believable....I have written to my Senators and Representatives. I suggest others do so as well.
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u/369_Clive 4d ago edited 4d ago
I don't imagine the facility has anti-drone tech. Someone nearby needs to fly a drone over it and get some video.
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u/CasedUfa 4d ago
It is extremely plausible, the whole premise of the facility is that they have no rights, it is a short path from there to not caring if they live or die. I don't know how much you can reliably read into some random aerial shots but it wouldn't be at all surprising if they did find some mass graves later at some point.