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Lebollo la basadi also known as female initiation among the Basotho is a rite of passage ritual which marks the transition of girls into womanhood.This activity is still practiced in the Free State, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal provinces of South Africa.
Over time, the gang grew into a more traditional criminal organization. MS-13 has a longtime rivalry with the 18th Street gang. Many MS-13 members were deported to El Salvador after the end of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992, or upon being arrested, facilitating the spread of the gang to Central America. The gang is currently active in many ...
The Texas Department of Public Safety classifies Tango Blast as a "loose affiliation" gang, with "relaxed membership requirements and little to no detectable leadership hierarchy." [ 14 ] The El Paso County sheriff's officials have noted that "there is no known formal organization of the gang on El Paso streets."
Two senior members of the violent MS-13 gang are among more than a dozen indicted for a series of grisly machete murders across Long Island and Queens, according to prosecutors....
The girls, however, have to go through rituals and tests to prove their chastity before they qualify to partake in the festival. [ 5 ] On the first day of the rites, the girls' heads are shaved and they dressed in cloth around their waist to the knee level.
The evil MS-13 member known as “Little Devil” was sentenced to 50 years in prison for her part in luring four men to be hacked to death in a Long Island park.
Where modernization is occurring, initiation is not taken so seriously as before, although there are still certain areas which still perform initiations. The bull jumping ceremony of the Hamar tribe in Ethiopia. In some African tribes, boys take about 3–4 months participating in initiation rites and girls take about 1–2 months.
A known MS-13 gang member who was in the US illegally was allowed to enroll at a Maryland public high school even when he was already the main suspect in the rape and murder of a woman with autism ...