The Commission of Truth met with representatives of the G-16. “To forget is not good for the people; all people have the right to truth, justice and reparation. We cannot speak of reconciliation in a vacuum; forgetting leads us to commit serious mistakes and to difficulties” stated the Commissioner of the Commission of Truth
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Tegucigalpa. The Commissioners of the Commission of Truth (Comisión de Verdad – CDV – in Spanish) have arrived in Honduras to accompany the information collecting work of in-country staff, hold bilateral meetingsinternational institutions, and meet with the Supreme Court of Honduras in order to better understand their versions of events in Honduras since the Coup d’État on June 28, 2009.
President Daniel Ortega stated on March 10 that Nicaragua reserves the right to reopen its 1980s lawsuit against the United States before the International Court of Justice at The Hague (World Court). The US did not recognize and never complied with the Court’s 1986 ruling that it was illegal for the US to mine the harbor at the Port of Corinto and to prosecute the Contra War to overthrow the Sandinista Revolution. The World Court ordered the US to pay reparations, estimated at that time to be US$17 billion. Ortega said that in today’s dollars that would be US$58 billion.
The Honduran Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared (COFADEH) repudiates the harassment and death threats directed towards human rights defender Blanca Azucena Espinoza, President of the Buenos Amigos Peasant Cooperative, in the municipality of Sabá in the department of Colón in the north of Honduras.
During the investigation that conducted between Feb 25 and Mar
4, 2011 the International Mission found numerous violations of human rights.
The leaders and members of peasant organizations have been threatened
The National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP) denounced today that, in Honduras, grave human rights violations persist under the Porfirio Lobo Sosa administration.
Peasant and popular organizations denounce a new wave of repression
