Murdered Honduran activist Berta Cáceres buried as others vow to continue fight

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Murdered Honduran activist Berta Cáceres buried as others vow to continue fight

Cáceres, an environmental campaginer who was killed last week, had complained of death threats from police, the army and landowners’ groups

Associated Press
Saturday 5 March 2016 20.14 EST

A large crowd in Honduras has accompanied the body of Berta Cáceres to its final resting place amid calls for justice over this week’s killing of the indigenous leader and environmental activist.

Many of those carrying Cáceres’ coffin on their shoulders through the dusty streets of La Esperanza on Saturday were Lenca indigenous people for whose rights she had fought. Drummers pounded out Afro-Honduran rhythms as mourners chanted “The struggle goes on and on” and “Berta Cáceres is present, today and forever.”

The crowd marched more than 10km (6m) from Cáceres’ mother’s home to a chapel where a Mass was celebrated in her memory, and then to the cemetery in La Esperanza about 300km east of the capital. Her four daughters and her ex-husband were among the procession.

. . .

Cáceres, 45, who was awarded the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for her role in fighting a dam project, had complained of death threats from police, the army and landowners’ groups. She was killed early on Thursday by gunmen who broke into her home and shot her four times.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/06/murdered-honduran-activist-berta-caceres-buried-as-others-vows-to-continue-fight

[dflprincess]

1. Article from "The Nation":

http://www.thenation.com/article/the-clinton-backed-honduran-regime-is-picking-off-indigenous-leaders/

Which I'm sure will now be slammed as a "right wing rag".

[roody]

2. Thank you.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Excellent, important article. The truth is there, it needs to be acknowledged. Thank you. n/t

[whirlygigspin]

3. Interview with her nephew at CBC Canada radio

radio interview with her nephew
very sad
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2684834478/

[Judi Lynn]

6. You're right.Her journalist nephew, Silvio Carillo, is, understandably, having a hard time accepting

her assassination.

He was very composed throughout the interview, and finally succumbed to tears as the interview ended. He truly cared for her, and resists what happened.

He mentioned Honduras is also one of the most deadly places for journalists, as well as for environmental defenders.

What he had to say about Hillary and Lanny Davis was worth consideration. We've all heard it, in one form or another, but corporate "news" sources have almost completely destroyed all possible references to the deeper issues of that coup.

Thank you for providing this interview.

Best wishes to Berta's grieving nephew. Hope he will be able to be safe.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Adding something else her nephew said, in that interview.

When it was mentioned Berta won the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize, he stated she wasn't the first environmental defender who has been assassinated after winning this prize.

May the heavens protect these people who give everything they have for their fellow humans, even if it's giving them calmness and peace as they are slaughtered by the corporation henchmen.

[Beowulf]

5. I consider Hillary an accessory to this murder.

She helped engineer the coup that ousted the democratically elected government replacing it with a bunch of thugs.

Oh, and how are those refugee children you sent back to send a message doing? Are they all alive and thriving?

[Judi Lynn]

7. Good question. I've read that some of them were murdered when they returned. So damned sad. n/t

[JudyM]

9. +1 The media keeps a veil over so many important matters.

[Peace Patriot]

10. I agree, Beowulf! Hillary Clinton aided the fascist coup, and they use death squads to...

...murder, rape, imprison and terrorize entirely peaceful people who oppose them in any way, whether it's Indigenous rights, the environment, labor rights or political participation. I will say more about Clinton's culpability for this in the coming weeks. It was the last straw of Clintonism for me--irredeemably destructive as well as sneaky and hypocritical!

[840high]

11. .+10

[Beowulf]

12. This really needs to receive much more attention in the campaign

This speaks to Hillary's judgement. It speaks to her values. It calls into question her commitment to the well-being of children. It raises questions about her relationship to Henry Kissinger as her meddling in Honduras seems right out of his playbook.

I hope someone asks her questions about this. Bernie's been much too nice.

[MisterP]

16. who the Facusses were was well-known: you don't wrest the cocaine traffic

back from the Haitians by asking politely

[Ken Burch]

13. Another person for whom this song can and must be sung:

[mia]

14. NPR featured her story.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/03/469045372/berta-c-ceres-honduran-indigenous-rights-leader-is-murdered

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=469045372&m=469083213

Berta Cáceres, a hugely influential Honduran indigenous rights activist, was killed in her hometown of La Esperenza, Intibucá, on Thursday. She would have turned 46 tomorrow.

Cáceres was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize after she led a peaceful campaign to stop one of the world's largest dam builders from pursuing the Agua Zarca Dam, which would have cut off the ethnic Lenca people from water, food and medicine.

La Prensa of Honduras reports that Cáceres was currently working to stop a company from building a hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque river, which the Rio Blanco community said would fundamentally change their way of life. Authorities, the paper reports, said she was killed during a robbery, but her mother said that Cáceres was killed "because of her struggle."

Cáceres had faced threats for her environmental activism. So much so that the the InterAmerican Commission for Human Rights had called on the government of Honduras to provide her with protection....

[Dont call me Shirley]

20. Beautiful woman.

[AxionExcel]

15. R.I.P. Sister Berta. May what is just unfold.

[Dont call me Shirley]

21. Disgraceful.

[polly7]

17. So sad, and what a terrible loss. :( nt.

[Octafish]

18. Hillary Clinton’s Honduran Disgrace

By Matthew Rothschild
The Progressive, March 5, 2010

Hillary Clinton continues with her hawkish ways, making Obama’s foreign policy less distinguishable from Bush’s every day.

She just met with Honduran President Pepe Lobo, she’s notified Congress that the Obama administration is restoring aid to Honduras, and she’s urging Latin American nations to recognize the Lobo government in Tegucigalpa.

The democratic opposition in Honduras boycotted lobo’s election, since he’s allied with the forces that overthrew Manuel Zelaya last June.

But for the longest time, Hillary Clinton stubbornly refused to call the June takeover a “coup,” even though her boss, the president of the United States, immediately denounced it as such.

SNIP..

“Other countries of the region say that they want to wait a while,” she said on her Latin American trip. “I don’t know what they’re waiting for.”

CONTINUED...

http://progressive.org/wx030510.html

[Dont call me Shirley]

19. Berta...