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24 February 2010 | | |

No Change

Honduras: two murders and death squads denounced

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Nothing has changed for Honduran social activists with the arrival of Porfirio Lobo as president. Persecutions, threats and murders are still commonplace in the Central American country. The Peoples´ National Resistance Front denounced yesterday at a press conference held in Tegucigalpa, capital city of the country, the murder of Vanessa Zepeda and Julio Funes, members of the organization, and the forced eviction of other activists.

The organization condemns the continuity of the repressive policies with Lobo´s administration, who insists on presenting himself before the international community as a president lawfully elected by the citizenship.

Assaults, persecutions and torture are some of the attacks mentioned by the front, who blames the “Honduran oligarchy” for this situation, which is represented by Lobo.

Meanwhile, the Committee in Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH) denounced the new presence of death squads, as the ones which operated in the country in the 80s.

The Committee showed, for instance, the testimonies of two cameramen, Manuel de Jesús Murillo and Ricardo Antonio Rodríguez, who were kidnapped, tortured and threatened by paramilitary officers in Tegucigalpa on the first week of February.

Their story reminds of the worst years in the history of Latin America. “I was at the gas station when two men came with guns and told me to get into their car, a brown Toyota Pick Up 3.0 (...). They made me enter the vehicle, they tied up my hands and covered my head. The car started. There were 4 armed men inside”, said one of the victims according to CODEH.

He adds: “They started questioning me and asked me where the guns and the money were, they hit me, and blindfolded me. They asked me for several people who I had never heard of before. They asked me for an RPG7 they had found and I told them the resistance didn´t have weapons. In the meantime they brushed my neck and hands with a machete”.

They they asked him to give them videos of the Resistance, as a condition not to kill his mother and two daughters. The cameraman accepted while the men continued to torture him, states the document issued by CODEH.

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