Keep Suspension Of Honduras
To The OAS Claimed
TEGUCIGALPA - Social organizations consider
on Monday Honduras should continue suspended
from the Organization of American States
(OAS) and other mechanisms while human
rights violations persists and the
perpetrators of the coup are still
unpunished.
"The crisis in Honduras since June 28
continues deepens, without any promising
alternatives looming from the government
sector to restore democratic institutions",
said the Association of Judges for Democracy
(AJD).
In a letter to OAS Secretary General Jose
Miguel Insulza, the AJD pointed out that
before accepting Honduras in the body, the
State must admit its responsibility for
crimes committed since the institutional
breakdown.
The topic of the future of Honduras in the
OAS was to be discussed at XL General
Assembly being held in Lima, Peru, but today
they gave up its inclusion in the agenda.
Honduras was suspended of the organization
in July; just days after masked soldiers
kidnapped President Manuel Zelaya and
forcibly remove him from the country.
The AJD, the Committee of Relatives of
Disappeared Detainees (COFADEH) and the
Centre for Research and Promotion of Human
Rights considered to reverse the situation
is necessary to separate those who took part
in the coup from their key positions in
civilian institutions.
Only in January to date COFADEH registered
more than 700 politically motivated assaults
and almost all remain unsolved.
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