Thursday, December 17, 2009

Strongly armed military threaten peasants in Tocoa




By Iris Mencia

Large numbers of heavily armed soldiers, threaten campasinos in Tocoa  to leave their , which   is supposed to belong Rene Morales and Miguel Facusse, although at no time have these persons certified title of ownership. 

Members of the Human Rights Committee were  near the scene and alert to report this situation.

They are about three hundred peasant families threatened.

Miguel Facusse, better known as the guy  who belongs to the Honduran oligarchic families, his properties  have been obtained in dubious ways.

Ecocidal has been sued by nationally and internationally.

He was linked to the bankruptcy and looting of the Honduran Corporation for Industrial Development, CONADI.

He has been denounced by the Garifuna communities of   obtaining through  money and hiring  mercenaries, the land of the black peoples of Honduras and of Zacate Grande.

In the seventies and has since occupied large tracts of land in Tocoa Comayagua Zacate Grande and who knows how many more.

He is also accused of being behind the current coup d'etatö

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