DEG, an investment bank of the German government based in Cologne, announced yesterday in a letter to the International Committee of FIAN that after analyzing the land conflict in Honduras’ Lower Aguán they have decided to terminate their contractual relationship with Honduras’ Dinant Corporation.
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.
Below is a summary of the human rights violations that took place on Wednesday, March 30th across Honduras during the day-long national civic strike.
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.
Ilse Ivania Velázquez Rodriquez, a teacher who was allegedly hit in the head with a projectile tear gas canister fired by police then struck by a vehicle, has died in Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa as a result of her injuries. Ilse Ivania was peacefully participating in a protest including representatives of teachers unions, parents of school-aged children, primary, secondary and post-secondary students, popular organizations and members of the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP).
