Killings of members of the Resistance in Honduras continues

Murdered Francisco Castillo, collaborator of Father Tamayo

by voselsoberano.com Thursday March 18, 2

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Killings of members of the Resistance in Honduras continues

Yesterday, Wednesday 17 March at 5 30 p. m.

Mr. Francisco Castillo was a member of the National Resistance against the coup. Before the coup took place, Mr. Castillo was working in companies belonging to Miguel Facusse, his participation in the coup

made him quit his job.

Mr. Castillo gave Father Andres

Tamayo shelter in his home, provided him a vehicle to mobilize him during his time in Tegucigalpa.

On September 22, he was arrested during the violent evictions run by the army and police around the Embassy of Brazil, then he was illegally detained at the facilities of the sports complex Chochi Sosa, where he was released by efforts of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights(CODEH).

Mr. Castillo and his wife were subjected to systematic persecution and it was visible, carried out by people who were driving motorcycles and cars.

These events unfolded with impunity. As a result, on 2nd December 2009, the CODEH asked for precautionary measures before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Commission replied on 15 January 2010, transcribed office:

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES

January 15, 2010

Washintong, DC USA 200,006

Ref MC-196-09 (request for information on Carla Gabriela

Rivera, Francisco Castillo ...) Honduras

Dear Sirs:

I am pleased to address you on behalf of the Commission Interamerican Human Rights (IACHR), regarding your request for precautionary measures in favor of Carla Gabriela Rivera Francisco Castillo ... Honduras.

We inform you we requested information to the President of the Supreme Court of the Republic Honduras and the President of Congress under the article 25 of the Regulations of the Commission. Thus, having the evidence needed to adopt a decision on request, we kindly ask you to keep the Committee informed on the status of Carla Gabriela Rivera, Francisco Castillo ....

I take this opportunity to greet you sincerely

Elizabeth Abi.Mershed

Deputy Executive Secretary.

Two more peasants were killed in Colon

by voselsoberano.com Thursday March 18, 2010 10:52

Esly Banegas, Coordinator of Popular Organizations in Bajo Aguan, reported this morning to Radio Progreso, that in Carbonal, Bonito Oriental, two members of the cooperative Brisas de Cohdefor were killed yesterday. After working their fields peasants Jose Antonio Cardoza and Jose Concepcion Carias were killed ambushed by gunfire.

Jose Antonio Cardoza and Jose Concepcion Carias both 50 years-old were killed at noon yesterday by unidentified individuals who opened fire with shotguns as they drove home after finishing their day's work growing beans in Carbonal community, Bonito Oriental in the department of Colon.

The two farmers were leaders of the Associative Company Brisas de Cohdefor , who have been receiving death threats from an alleged land owner, Carlos Diaz, who is represented by a legal representative, said officials of the National Agrarian Institute ( INA) in Tocoa, Colon, on Friday 12 March. In the INA they were recommended to inform the Public Prosecutor's Office.

About 25 families occupy and inhabit in the past 4 years about 60 acres that were once property of the Honduran Forest Development Corporation (COHDEFOR).

In the context of the agrarian conflict in the Aguan, landlords in the area have intensified repression, threats and intimidation against rural families occupying land in dispute, two new victims added to the list of murders.

March 18, 2010

Común-Noticias

New political assassinations in Aguán

by Ruben Nieto - Tercera Información 12/03/2010

Militants from the Popular National Resistance Front (FNRP) in Honduras during the past hours denounced the killings of two farmworkers, Ramon Castellanos and Miguel Ulises Sauceda, residents in El Naranjo, in the department of Atlantida. These two victims of a political crackdown led by the regime run by Pepe Lobo were abducted since the previous day to their murder.

Due to the tense situation caused by the large landowners, with the support of the coup leaders,who are occupying the land violently, the land, which Manuel Zelaya released and gave the farmers to work them and make them productive-since they remained unproductive in order to speculate on the ground and with political purposes- a wave of violent repression against the peasants is taking place.

The Front has claimed this while Pepe Lobo convenes a committee for dialogue with the farmers and at the same time "Lobo gave the signal and its death squads proceeded to murder Ulysses Castellanos and Miguel Ramon Sauceda" as expressed by militants of FNRP.

Human rights organizations like the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH) and the Committee of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) have noted that there are obvious links on the right-wing dictatorship led by Lobo with paramilitaries.

Fuente y traducción: elquinceavopaso.blogspot.com

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