Honduras: the Human Rights Emergency Continues (COFADEH)
Sun, 04/03/2011 - 22:56 — AP
Honduras: the Human Rights Emergency Continues
(translation: VC)
Before the brief pause today, Thursday, March 31, due to discussions between the National Congress and the leadership of the Federation of Teachers’ Organizations of Honduras (FOMH), the citizenry suffered from the worst period of violations of their human rights. A state of emergency, without a doubt, implicating the police and army of the defacto regime that rules this country.
The events which occurred in a systematic manner for the past three weeks, with the direct participation of the administrative apparatus of the State and the instruments of the monopoly of violence----the National Police and the Army---- have brought again, in a slight way, international attention to Honduras.
The attention of the world community to the crisis generated by the coup and coup ideology is still very insufficient, but it is key to brewing institutional solutions that create the minimal social and political consensus to transform the country.
For this reason, The Committee of the Families of the Disappeared Detainees in Honduras (COFADEH) asks with urgency that the different solidarity groupings and intergovernmental political forums publicly communicate political positions for an end to the disproportionate violence and repression that the militarized forces have launched against the civil population – discontented, demanding, and in resistance -since the coup d’etat of June 2009.
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