Honduras Accompaniment Project works to accompany the nonviolent social movement in Honduras in the face of the repression begun by the coup.
A retransmission, in Spanish, of a forum held by the National Popular Resistance Front on November 4, 2010 in Tegucigalpa with four Commissioners from the True Commission (Comisión de Verdad), including Elsie Monje from Ecuador (President of the Commission), Craig Scott (Canada), François Houtart (Belgium) and Helen Umaña (Honduras).
In response to the persistent violence in the Aguán Valley and the manipulative intent on the part of many communication media, we must remember important events that clarify the conflict over land tenure in what was known as the Regional Center for Military Training (CREM).
Dear Friends,
Please call the State department immediately to express your concern regarding US military and police aid to the Lobo regime in light of yesterdays violence against campesino movement members in the Aguan Valley. See suggested phone script below.
We regret to announce the terrible assassination of Ignacio Reyes (50), Teodoro Acosta (40), Siriaco Muños (56), Raúl Castillo (45) and José Luis Sauceda (32), members of the Peasant Movement of Aguán (MCA) who were brutally killed in the morning hours Monday November 15th, 2010 in Tumbador, Trujillo by hired assassins of [Honduran oligarch, U.S. ally and coup-financier] Miguel Facusse.}
Washington, DC – Congressman Sam Farr (D-CA), joined by 29 other Members of Congress, sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today calling on the Obama Administration to suspend aid—particularly military and police assistance—to the government of Honduras, while murders of political activists and media workers and other attacks in that country continue with near
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Tegucigalpa, November 5, 2010. Violations of human rights will be studied within the social, economic and political context of the coup de’tat, in order to be presented Honduran society explained Elsie Monge, President of the Honduran Commission of Truth, an initiative of the Human Rights Platform.
The Commission of Truth launched its website today in a press conference with the Commissioners who have been in the country since Saturday for a series of work sessions, meetings with victims of human rights abuses in different parts of the country, and other national and international actors and organizations. They have held regular press conferences to communicate their plans, progress and concerns. For more information visit : Commission of Truth : http://comisiondeverdadhonduras.org/
Your presence is urgently needed in Honduras. Over a year after the coup in Honduras, heavy repression continues to destroy lives, families and trample human rights. Levels of impunity, militarization and para-militarization create what partners describe as a state of war against the people.
In a letter to President Trump signed by 50 House and Senate colleagues, Rep. Schakowsky and Senator Markey led a call to the US government for accountability in its support for the Honduran government in light of growing threats against human rights defenders, journalists and international observers in Honduras. A press release for the letter states, “The United States should not be aiding any government that fails to hold violators of human rights accountable, or worse, perpetrates these violations. Continued support of the government of John Orlando Hernandez without continued checks on its behavior will only fuel the destruction of the rule of law, cripple an already devastated economy and allow for a pervasive fear among the Honduran people which are, not coincidentally, the very factors leading to the mass migration of ordinary citizens from Honduras that we are currently witnessing. See the full Press Release and link to the letter here.
https://schakowsky.house.gov/press-releases/representative-schakowsky-an…
