Individuals armed at service of Miguel Facussé and Rene Reynaldo Canales Morales are threatening to violently evict families belonging to the Unified Movement of Peasants Aguan (MUCA).

FIAN HONDURAS

(Food First Information & Action Network) 

International Rights 
The Human Right to Food

Thousands of families grouped in the peasant movement MUCA occupying lands of Mr. Miguel Facussé, René Reynaldo Canales Morales and are suffering constant attacks by members of the police and military forces sinceDecember 9th. 

In the last hours is known that these gentlemen are preparing for a violent eviction on December 24 to be executed by armed individuals.

 the authorities of the Public Prosecutor alerted to conduct investigations relevant to this complaint and to end the crisis itself that originates in the historical failure of the various state governments to expeditiously resolve the constitutional rights of farmers to access to land and avoid violence that unfortunately there are cases resulting in deaths and injuries.

We demand immediate halt to arbitrary arrest warrants against Dagoberto Torres, Alfonso Hernandez, Evaristo Avila, Raul Mejia, Maribel Mejia, Miguel Angel Fúnez, Jorge Antonio Rivas, Pedro Marcial Zambrano, Luciano Erazo, Angel Maria Ramirez, Magdiel Lopez, Jose Castillo, Pedro Castillo, Santos Menjivar and Perfecto Domingo Moreno.

From now we hold the Public Ministry and the National Agrarian Institute (INA) responsible for its inability to guarantee the human right to food, health, employment and security agencies for the physical, mental and moral, security of  family farmers who now occupy those lands that are protected by international treaties to which Honduras is a party.

Tegucigalpa, December 21, 2009

Sincerely,
Gilberto Rios
Executive Secretary
FIAN Hondura