Protests Mark Honduras Coup
Anniversary
TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran People's National
Resistance Front (FNRP) will carry out
demonstrations throughout the country this
weekend to protest the first anniversary of
the coup.
Indigenous people, union members, women, and
members of progressive parties affiliated
with the front will take part in walks,
sit-in, and pot-and-pan banging
demonstrations to condemn the rupture in the
constitutional order and remember the coup's
victims.
Early on June 28, 2009, a group of soldiers,
in connivance with the oligarchy, kidnapped
President Manuel Zelaya from his residence
and took him to the Palmerola military base
by force, and from there to Costa Rica.
A de facto regime has usurped power ever
since, unleashing repression against the
opposition, with dozens of people either
dead or injured, thousands of illegal
arrests, torture, abuse, and other
violations.
The FNRP, created the same day of the coup,
is currently collecting over 1.2 million
signatures to ask for Zelayas' return to
Honduras, and to call for a national
constituent assembly.
"Only with a new constitution we will have
the means for a social and economic
transformation in the country," FNRP leader
Carlos H. Reyes declared.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
