Thursday, December 17, 2009

Auto-Amnesty?Micheletti prepares amnesty for him and other coup plotters

TeleSUR ago: 02 hours
De facto President of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, who seized power after running on June 28 a coup against the legitimate President of the nation, Manuel Zelaya, is preparing an amnesty for him, as for all those who supported the breakup of constitutional order in the country. 

"We have to forgive all, I think it could be a step toward," Micheletti said, referring to the amnesty which aims to present Congress, seen as fraudulent, approved for all involved in the military overthrow of Zelaya. 

The elected president in elections held outside the constitutional framework on 29 November, Porfirio Lobo, after meeting Micheletti, led the formal proposal to the legislature. 

"Everything that  stems from the events of June28th , should be subject to what is proposed in the issue of amnesty, to bring peace, pardon for political crimes," said Wolf. 

The de facto Congress , who also ratified the coup, once the amnesty proposal was made, Lobo  almost immediately, reactivated a committee to study the issue. However, to start discussing the return ofZelaya, following the signing of Tegucigalpa to San Jose, took more than a month. 

The coup leaders declared  a "national reconciliation" to forgive the fact they themselves have committed crimes during the 172 days of unconstitutionality which led the country since the breakdown of lawful government. 

From the de facto Congress ,parliamentary  Marvin Ponce, member of the Democratic Unification Party, determined that "we can not talk about amnesty, forgiveness, reconciliation, while we have President legitimately elected by the people arrested. 

President Manuel Zelaya has been since last Sept. 21, at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigapalpa, and since then remains surrounded by military coup. Furthermore, the de facto authorities have ordered the application of techniques of torture and harassment to the embassy. 

Meanwhile, former prosecutor and deputy Edmundo Orellana said a de facto Congress should not be the one  to approve the so-called amnesty policy. 

"It's a huge conflict of interest, obviously, so shameless, that it is  themselves, those who committed the crime, those who are forgiving," complained Orellana. 

The U.S. ambassador to Tegucigalpa, Hugo Llorens, described as "positive" that the Honduran Congress has opened a de facto analysis of a possible amnesty policy and praised the "leadership" of Porfirio Lobo. 

"Everything done by  the elected president Lobo in this regard is supported by the U.S.," Llorens told HRN radio. 

Zelaya denounced on 30 November that "the United States, as is public, negotiated the position of Honduras, left the democratic position and is recognizing the de facto regime, because politicians are doing business with them, which I consider a very big mistake" .

teleSUR - Efe / ld - MM

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