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Assassinations and Arrests
Continue in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA - The Committee of Relatives of
the Detained Disappeared of Honduras (COFADEH)
denounced the continuation of human rights
violations in that nation after Porfirio
Lobo assumed power.
"Since January 27 to date three unionists of
the National Front of Popular Resistance
were killed and at least another 5 were
tortured in clandestine jails," informed
Bertha Oliva, COFADEH president.
Oliva revealed that representatives of the
institutions that supported the coup in June
28 still occupy their posts and even
pro-coup Gen. Romeo Vasquez was appointed
manager of the Honduran Telecommunications
Company.
Also intact are the Death Squads that were
reactivated when hooded soldiers kidnapped
President Manuel Zelaya and took him by
force to Costa Rica, she said.
COFADEH counted at least 700 violations of
citizen rights, including crimes, outrages,
rapes and illegal arrests.
Referring to an announcement by authorities
to create a Truth Commission regarding
events of June 28, Oliva declared that that
institution cannot function in a framework
of human rights violations.
COFADEH leader denounced that President Lobo
aims to install this commission to achieve
recognition of the international community
in view of the rejection of many countries
of a government emerged after disruption of
institutional order. |
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