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CENTRAL AMERICA
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| Friday 22 October 2010 |
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Coup
Forces
157
Hondurans
Into
Exile
TEGUCIGALPA
-
A total
of 157
people
are
currently
living
in exile
due to
persecution
after
the
coup,
reported
the
Committee
of
Relatives
of
Detained
and
Disappeared
in
Honduras
(COFADEH).
The
exiles
are
leaders
of the
resistance
movement
in
neighborhoods
and
communities
that
have
fled the
country
because
their
lives
were in
jeopardy,
said
Bertha
Oliva,
Cofadeh
coordinator.
Oliva
denounced
the
policy
of
persecution
promoted
by the
Honduran
government,
paramilitary
groups
and
death
squads
against
opponents
of the
coup of
June 28,
2009.
That day
hooded
men
kidnapped
President
Manuel
Zelaya,
took him
by force
to Costa
Rica and
put in
power
Roberto
Micheletti.
Zelaya
managed
to
return
to the
country
by
surprise
on Sept.
21 and
remained
refuge
in the
Brazilian
Embassy
in
Tegucigalpa
for
three
months,
until
his
departure
for the
Dominican
Republic.
Zelaya
has
lived in
exile
due to
the lack
of
guarantees
for safe
return
to
Honduras
and the
trials
conducted
against
him by
the same
institutions
that
supported
the
coup.
This
week 30
US
Democrat
congressmen
denounced
the
deplorable
human
rights
situation
in
Honduras
and
urged
their
government
to stop
attempts
to
achieve
the
reinstatement
of
Honduras
to the
OAS as
long as
this
situation
continues.
"We have
received
credible
reports
from
human
rights
organizations
that say
that
abuses
continue
with
impunity,"
the
congressmen
said.
During
the
first
half of
this
year
about
3,000
were
killed
in the
country,
for an
average
of 16.27
deaths
per day.
The
victims
included
10
journalists,
30
lawyers
and
several
leaders
of
popular
organizations,
and most
of the
crimes
have not
been
investigated
so far.
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