12 Commission for the Protection of the Moral and Physical Integrity of Children The phenomena of violent deaths in boys and girls has multiple causes, among which we can mention, based on the results of the investigations of the Special Unit of Investigation of Deaths of Minors: the deaths occurred within gangs; those produced in conflicts between rival gangs; those produced in confrontations with the authority or with citizens when gang members are committing crimes; those produced by executions ordered by groups of drug traffickers and organized crime, and those produced by clandestine groups, which have been characterized by the Former National Human Rights Commissioner, Leo Valladares Lanza, himself as groups of social cleaning financed by non-identified national sectors, presumably formed by criminal, military members, former military members, police agents, and former police agents. From 1986 and up to 2002 approximately 700 boys and girls died violently and in unclear conditions, conclusion based on the forms for the removal of bodies of the Department of Forensic Medicine of the Public Prosecutors’ Office and the DGIC, which offer the trustworthiest information. The above explains the difference between the numbers of the State in comparison with the numbers presented by non-governmental organizations whose source is the imprecise information published in national newspapers. The deaths within gangs are approximately 60% of the cases, the actions of organized crime and drug trafficking cause more than 30% of said deaths, and 8% is attributed to specific clandestine groups of “social cleaning”. Investigations have also established that among the alleged guilty parties are police agents linked to specific clandestine groups of “social cleaning”, proceeding immediately to their criminal processing. The results of the different actions tend to be evident and decisive in the medium and long term, although there are already valuable results in the short-term. The State has worried about investigating the cases of deaths in minors and ending all type of impunity. The President of the Republic has acknowledged before the national and international community that the phenomenon of violent deaths of youngsters is occurring in Honduras, many of them linked to gangs, as well as its commitment to investigate these deaths. The State has adopted several measures for the prevention of the death of minors and violence related to gangs: the creation of the National Program for the Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Social Reinsertion of people related to gangs; the intervention and restructuring of the IHNFA; the request for international cooperation for the execution of projects for methodological readjustment and social infrastructure for the internment of boys and girls under the responsibility of the IHNFA; the offering of the opportunity to more than 600 boys and girls of the street or in risky situations of being attended in Spanish institutions and to a greater number of being attended nationally, as well as more than a million children benefited by the Program of School Snacks; the readjustment of the infrastructure of criminal centers, and the execution of rehabilitation programs and removal of tattoos in criminal centers and in some penitentiary centers. c) Ricardo Rolando Díaz Martínez, general supervisor of the Secretariat of Security, appointed in charge of the Special Unit for the Investigation of the Deaths of Minors