9 role of auxiliary bodies to the Office of the Public Prosecutor and the Judicial Power. In 1998 the Public Security Force (FUSEP) disappeared and the special Police forces attached to the Secretariat of Security were created. Despite the change of approach regarding the new threats to security, the personnel and professional formation of police remained under the coordination of the Armed Forces until the end of the year 1998, reason for which the accusations regarding violations to human rights that were allegedly committed by security bodies were a constant in that decade. Said situation continues up to this date, despite the transition to civil command. There are a high number of complaints against different authorities and against the Armed Forces due to abuse of authority, excessive use of force, physical aggressions, illegal arrests, as well as homicides. In the year 2002 the Human Rights Commissioner, Leo Valladares Lanza, presented a report that accuses the State and specifically, the police forces, of organizing and/ or tolerating “death squads” under modalities similar to those applied during forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the eighties, since there was a “social cleaning” or “social prophylaxis” campaign. In the year 2003, the Head of Affairs of the Secretariat of Security, surprised all Hondurans by publicly accusing police officials and agents of being involved in activities of organized crime such as theft of vehicles, drug trafficking, and especially illegally arrests, torture, and the extrajudicial killing of “criminal” adults and hundreds of children and youngsters who were accused of criminal activities and of belonging to a mara or young gangs. In recent times the promotion (case of Committees of public safety and of legislations such as the reform to Article 332 wrongly called the “antimaras” law) as well as tolerance (police involved in extrajudicial killings and the high impunity of investigations) to the existence of patterns of “social cleaning” is clear, with teenagers and young gang members currently being their main victims. Youngsters are normally, on a daily basis, victims and perpetrators of violent acts that result in injuries and deaths. Crime and violence become phenomena that are practically inseparable, whichever their causes, and it has been proven that the greatest number of violent deaths are of teenagers and youngsters. Data in general state that in Honduras, during the last three years, almost 14,000 people have lost their life in a violent manner. Statistics inform that in a large proportion the victims of violence are young men between the ages of 16 and 35. Aggressors are also mainly young men. Studies affirm that the participation of children in criminal activities is no greater than 18% in more than two decades. The violation to the right to life of children and youngsters in Honduras have their maximum expression in the summary killings that have been occurring in the country since the beginning of the nineties, but that started receiving more public attention at the end of this decade. Honduran children and youngsters, especially the poor, live in violent contexts, in which they are the main victims of a war where the authorities, adults, the society in general, and youngsters themselves are active protagonists of the wiping out of hundreds of children, teenagers, and youngsters murdered as a consequence of the stigmatization of being a member of a mara or gang. Data from the National Commission of Human Rights points out that of the deaths accounted for in the year 2001, in 54.9% the authors are unknown, a number that allows us to infer that they are planned and executed with premeditation and in an environment in which the authors are concealed. The maras or gangs are not a new phenomenon in Honduras. The maras are connected to organized crime, because the policy in charge of cleaning the streets