Honduras Troops Threatens to
Evict Farmers
TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran army began a
large deployment of troops in Aguan Valley
aimed at evicting 3,000 farmers families,
denounced popular organizations.
The northern region has been completely
militarized and we have detected at least 30
vehicles with troops carrying large-bore
weapons, declared Yony Rivas member of the
Unified Farmers Movement in Aguan.
The armed forces deployed battalion Four in
La Ceiba city and special troops in the area
where an armed conflict for lands has been
developed for several years ago.
This movement is unusual since civilian
conflicts are solved by the police and not
the army, warned the director of the
Committee for Human Rights Defense Andres
Pavon.
Militarization increased tensions in the
area and neighbours of the place said they
fear an offensive will begin at any moment
that could finish in a massacre.
Since last December thousands of people
established on the left side of Aguan River
suffer harassment and attempts of eviction,
killing 5 and wounding several.
The People's National Resistance Force (FNRP)
alerted the Honduran population and the
international community of the serious
situation that those families are facing
now.
The FNRP communiqué claimed Porfirio Lobos
the security Minister Oscar Alvarez and the
great landowners Miguel Facussé, Reinaldo
Canales and Rene Morales responsible of any
violation of Human rights.
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