Ousted Zelaya urges UN to restore law in Honduras

[struggle4progress]

September 29, 2009 - 11:09AM

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya appealed to the UN General Assembly by telephone from his refuge in the besieged Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa to restore the rule of law in his restive country.

"I call on the United Nations to restore the rule of law and the freedom that Honduras deserves," he said over a mobile phone held by his foreigm minister Patricia Isabel Rodas Baca.

"Anybody who had any doubt that a dictatorship is taking hold of my country, now with what has happened in the last 93 days of repression, I think any of those doubts that might have existed are dispelled," Zelaya said in his surprise telephone intervention lasting a few minutes.

"Beside being subject to a coup d'etat, Honduras is being subject to fascist rule," he added, referring to Monday's moves by the de facto regime running Honduras to silence opposition media outlets ...

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/ousted-zelaya-urges-un-to-restore-law-in-honduras-20090929-g9zp.html

[Braulio]

1. If the UN swiftly moves to restore order...

Like they did in Somalia and Darfur, Congo and Haiti, Honduras will have one heck of a problem. They're better off hunkering down, waiting for the elections, and then letting the new president take over ASAP.