Monday, 23 November 2009 19:53
The Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), the national and international community is concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in Honduras that every day deepens and acquires new overtones.The new wave of death threats, political persecution, illegal detention, torture, militarization of some sectors of major cities and the incursion of unmarked cars with tinted windows conducted by heavily armed men, their faces covered with ski masks in the barrios and colonias identified with the resistance against the coup declared free of political propaganda, coupled with gathering information from the leaders of organized resistance by political and military.
Repressive atmosphere of uncertainty, reinforced with the job delivered on November 16, 2009 by the Undersecretary of Network Services of the Ministry of Public Health ordered to prepare a Contingency Plan for coverage of health services, twenty-four hours, apply from November 19 to 04th December 2009. According to the official letter No. 1055-09-SSRDS, the Plan should include, High Advance without jeopardizing the health of patients, selective rescheduling surgeries and ask these dates include the provision of medicines and medical supplies for the plan.
Measures that appear to be related to the conduct of illegitimate elections next November 29, structured in an unusual manner that reflects the militarization and paramilitarization expressed in the incorporation of the military reserve to assist the armed forces in guarding the polling stations it already had with 16,000 troops and 14,000 police officers.
In the western departments of the country's reservist army distributed flyers to intimidate the population in resistance, in which offenders qualify irrational members of the resistance, and dismiss the marches and defining them as inhumane ways plants and people unfit civilized, as did the communists in the eighties.
Military control is progressing and is ratified, as long as the authorities face jester Golpistas announces a strategic napping on 25 November to 02 December. Security forces are equipped with new tools of repression, a fully armored vehicle was added to the Ministry of Security to disperse demonstrations, anti-riot unit is equipped with cameras rolling, and a water cannon with great ability in pressure force as well as a mechanism to mark for 48 hours to receive a discharge of water. While the Armed Forces have started selective records in the nation's roads, while the incursion of aircraft in the departments of the Atlantic region of Honduras.
The structures manifests Cofadeh Protection of Human Rights and the international community concerned about the safety of social activists who fight for the restoration of democratic order.
The Cofadeh asks the international community to stay alert on the situation of human rights and require the State of Honduras to guarantee the life and integrity of the Honduran population and foreigners living in the country.
Of Acts and the perpetrators
Ni Olvido Ni forgiveness
COFADEH
Tegucigalpa, MDC, 21 November 2009.
Date: 23/11/2009
Source: COFADEH
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