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Berta Caceres murder: ex-Honduran military intelligence officer arrested
Source: The Guardian
Berta Cáceres murder: ex-Honduran military intelligence officer arrested
• David Castillo Mejía ran company building controversial dam
• Environmental campaigner Cáceres killed exactly two years ago
Nina Lakhani
Fri 2 Mar 2018 20.40 GMT Last modified on Fri 2 Mar 2018 23.01 GMT
Honduran authorities have arrested a former military intelligence officer for masterminding the murder of the indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, who was shot dead exactly two years ago today.
David Castillo Mejía, the executive president of the company building a dam which Cáceres campaigned against, is the ninth person arrested for the murder, and the fourth with ties to the Honduran military.
Castillo Mejía is accused by arresting authorities of providing logistical support and other resources to one of the hitmen already charged.
He is the first person to be charged as being the “intellectual author” of Cáceres’s murder and the attempted murder of Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro.
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• David Castillo Mejía ran company building controversial dam
• Environmental campaigner Cáceres killed exactly two years ago
Nina Lakhani
Fri 2 Mar 2018 20.40 GMT Last modified on Fri 2 Mar 2018 23.01 GMT
Honduran authorities have arrested a former military intelligence officer for masterminding the murder of the indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, who was shot dead exactly two years ago today.
David Castillo Mejía, the executive president of the company building a dam which Cáceres campaigned against, is the ninth person arrested for the murder, and the fourth with ties to the Honduran military.
Castillo Mejía is accused by arresting authorities of providing logistical support and other resources to one of the hitmen already charged.
He is the first person to be charged as being the “intellectual author” of Cáceres’s murder and the attempted murder of Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/02/berta-caceres-death-murder-ex-honduran-military-intelligence-officer-arrested