# @bsarhq on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcWYDIQBDiM
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69467419-bsarhq-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-22T16:55:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Battalion SAR (Non-Emergency), Humanitarian NGO (@bsarhq) — https://gondola.cc/bsarhq

## Caption

HOW TO NORMALIZE MASS D€∆TH

It doesn't happen all at once.

It happens one decision at a time.

STEP 1: DISMISS THE PROBLEM.
Hundreds D1€. Declare the D€∆TH$ unsurprising. Tell the public they're “not suspicious.” Tell them they're “not a priority.”

STEP 2: CONTROL THE NARRATIVE.
Control how information moves. Control who receives the reports. Control the conversation.

STEP 3: ATTACK THE MESSENGER.
When volunteers keep finding what government isn't looking for, attack the volunteers. Call them untrained. Question their credibility. Suggest they planted B0N€$.

Anything except confronting what they found.

STEP 4: DON'T GO LOOK.
Don't search the desert. Don't build a serious response around the mounting D€∆TH$. And when human rem@¡ns are reported, there were cases in which deputies didn't respond or remains were not promptly recovered.

If you don't look, you don't have to explain what you find.

STEP 5: MAKE IT NORMAL.
One D€∆TH becomes ten.
Ten becomes one hundred.
One hundred becomes hundreds.

Eventually something extraordinary becomes background noise.

STEP 6: AVOID ACCOUNTABILITY.
Complaints are filed. Evidence is documented. Questions are raised. Outside agencies are contacted.

And still we ask:

WHO ANSWERS FOR 300+ D€∆D?

This series is about Sheriff Kim Stewart's leadership in Doña Ana County—but the failure is now bigger than one sheriff.

It's about what happens when institutions stop treating mass D€∆TH as an emergency and start treating it as routine.

When the D€∆D are overwhelmingly migrants, refugees and people whose families may be thousands of miles away, indifference becomes especially easy.

That's the most dangerous part of normalization:

Eventually, people stop being shocked.

We refuse to stop being shocked.

We refuse to stop looking.

We refuse to stop documenting.

And we refuse to accept hundreds of human beings dying in one county as simply the way things are.

They were somebody.
They are still somebody.
And they are not forgotten.

#HowToNormalizeMassDeath #NotForgotten #Accountability #DoñaAnaCounty #HumanRights

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accountability, notforgotten, humanrights, doñaanacounty, howtonormalizemassdeath

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