Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Several people were injured on Sunday in the police repression of a demonstration by supporters of deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, in the northern city of San Pedro Sula.Among the wounded was a cameraman for Reuters news agency, which had to give him a dozen stitches to the head at a hospital in the economic capital of Honduras, said the involved, Colombian Herbert Villarreal.
Security forces cracked down with tear gas at hundreds of protesters gathered near the Cathedral of San Pedro Sula to demand the restitution of Zelaya, a refugee from the 21 September at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, after entering the country clandestinely .
The police also cracked down pouring water cannon, while continuing to detain protesters and several of them. The officers broke the windows of at least two cars passing in the street and they punctured the tires, and one of the drivers pulled him out of the car and beat him.
Like the driver, was wounded several blows to the head, face and temples during the incidents. The heavy police presence encircled the demonstrators in Central Park in the economic capital, demanding "the return of Mel".
This was the first incident on election day to elect a new president as well as the upcoming legislative and municipal authorities, who until then had been marked by tranquility.
The resistance against the coup, a conglomerate of unions and social movements and student, had called for a boycott of these elections not to "legalize the coup." The elections are unknown to much of the international community.
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