Court Files on Murdered Honduran Activist Berta Caceres Stolen
Court Files on Murdered Honduran Activist Berta Caceres Stolen
Published 30 September 2016
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The case files on the murder of Honduras’s Berta Caceres were stolen, the Organization of American States said on Friday, further impeding a popularly-discredited investigation of the renown Indigenous environmental activist.
“The theft of the case files on Berta Caceres is a criminal offense that requires enthusiastic action from the public prosecutor and the judiciary to find and sanction those responsible,” said Juan Jimenez Mayor, spokesperson of the OAS mission and special representative of the body’s Support Mission Against Corruption and Impunity, better known as MACCIH.
The judge—who supposedly carried the files in her car—was acting irresponsibly, said a statement from MACCIH. The body will evaluate the harms done to the case and will designate an officer to oversee the reconstitution of the files, which contained evidence incriminating those directly and indirectly responsible for the death of Caceres.
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Caceres’ family and movement members have demanded an independent probe since day one, expressing skepticism in the local justice system to carry out a reliable investigation given its track record of corruption, impunity and botched cases. They have claimed that the Honduran company Desarrollos Energéticos, or DESA, and the Honduran government are ultimately responsible for the Indigenous leader’s murder.
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