Text Book State Terrorism in Honduras: Death Squad Kills Teacher in Front of Students

[Judi Lynn]

Text Book State Terrorism in Honduras: Death Squad Kills Teacher in Front of Students
Written by Rights Action
Thursday, 25 March 2010 12:36

On March 23, at the same moment that a group of seven Honduran lawyers were presenting information to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in Washington D.C. concerning systematic human rights abuses being committed against the pacifist Honduran National Resistance Front (FNRP), a death squad comprised of heavily armed men wearing ski masks and civilian clothes, killed a prominent FNRP member, a teacher, in front of his high school students.

According to a communiqué issued by the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH):

“At 3 p.m. an unknown person was spotted in front of the San Jose del Pedregal High School. The unusual presence of a stranger caused concerns among students and thirty teachers who make up the staff of teachers who work at the school. Among the teachers was Professor of Social Science Jose Manuel Flores, who worked as teacher counselor.

Witnesses on the scene saw two pickups approach the rear of the school premises, apparently 2009 models, one green and white.

Professor Manuel, as his friends called him, was in the back of the facility overseeing pupils, when the assassins found him. They passed the perimeter fence and fired their guns at close range. The teacher was on a balcony from which he fell, and they fired on him again from above. As they fled, the ski mask of one of the attackers became entangled in the razor coil over the fence which they had cut open to look for their victim. The teacher died instantly.”

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Honduras: In the Face of the Wave of Selective Assassinations Perpetrated by the Regime

25.03.10
Honduras: In the Face of the Wave of Selective Assassinations Perpetrated by the Regime
by Vos el Soberano Collective

The Vos el Soberano Collective strongly condemns the wave of selective assassinations perpetrated by the regime, the most recent victims of which are compañeros José Manuel Flores, Francisco Castillo, José Antonio Cardoza, José Carías, and Nahun Palacios murdered over the last ten days.

Added to these are a wave of massacres and crimes, resulting from the regime's policies of "social cleansing" and re-accommodation of its criminal forces.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org.nyud.net:8090/2010/images/jose_manuel_flores.jpg

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org.nyud.net:8090/2010/images/francisco_castillo.jpg
More:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/honduras250310.html

[Judi Lynn]

2. Honduran Professor Assassinated

Honduran Professor Assassinated

TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran professor Jose Manuel Flores, member of the anti-coup resistance movement was murdered at the school were he worked, it was informed Wednesday.

Flores, a prominent magisterial leader and founder of the Central American Socialist Party (PSOCA) was shot in the back when hooded individuals entered the school through the roof Jose del Pedregal, in the south of the capital.

"His coward murder is in line with a campaign of selective crimes against union and people leaders grouped in the National Front of Popular Resistance" denounced PSOCA in a communiqué.

The party accused the government of Porfirio Lobo of intimidating the professor and trying to stop the fight for better pay and working conditions in the sector.

According to social organizations, since the coup of June 28 in Honduras were reported about 4.200 human rights violation among then more than 130 murders against members of the resistance and about 3.000 arrests.

http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/march/25/centralamerica10032503.htm