The news conference was held at the headquarters of Cofadeh
In less than a month of the arrival to power of Porfirio Lobo Sosa, 254 human rights violations were commited, about nine cases per day, which contradicts the discourse of respect for fundamental rights preached on a daily basis before the international community.
This was informed through a press conference the National Front for Popular Resistance FNRP, where it participated as a delegate invited to the Platform for Human Rights.
Lobo Sosa, became president product of the coup of 28 June 2009, through elections that were not transparent, totally militarized and under strong repression of the national resistance that remains standing against the coup and proceeds to action for a Constituent National Assembly.
Jari Dixon, José Luis Baquedano, Rodil Rodil Rivera, Gilberto Rios of FNRP and the Platform for Human Rights, addressed national and international journalists of the dangers of the international community not requiring concrete things, visible results of Lobo Sosa, whose main objective is to soften the position it adopted since it carried out the coup against President Manuel Zelaya Rosales.
"With the Truth Commission, which is only going to get the truth from their side, they want to clean a dirty face increasingly getting dirtier with human rights violations being committed, the objective of the scheme is the international community recognition of the regime, "said Dixon.
He said the goal is clear since 28 June, it wants to dismantle the resistance, but this is not going to divide as they want to, because the people of Honduras have more clarity than ever with regard to progress towards the Constituent Assembly.
Gilberto Rios said that the scheme is expressed by torture, killings and all these scenes of terror mounted by the security minister, whom you know their stage performances since he took the same position in the government of Ricardo Maduro.
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Now he threatens to punish any resistance bastion of adjournment , and he says he will enforce the law, but in the interests of the oligarchy that led the coup, he said.
Mery Agurcia In this regard told the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, COFADEH, arguing Rios approaches in figures, which stressed that it is true that there is NO respect for human rights.
"We can relate the assassination of Julio Fúnez Benítez and selectivity patterns used from June to November 2009.
Vanessa Zepeda's case is similar to one registered in October 2009, then we see two types of murder, shooting with typical actions of state security elements and another one which does not seem to take place through weapons, but where you can find hallmarks, which could reveal the involvement of medical corps, "complained Agurcia Mery.
Vanessa Zepeda's case is similar to one registered in October 2009, then we see two types of murder, shooting with typical actions of state security elements and another one which does not seem to take place through weapons, but where you can find hallmarks, which could reveal the involvement of medical corps, "complained Agurcia Mery.
The statistics are handled by the COFADEH that in only 28 days in the current regime there have been 53 illegal detentions, 2 sexual assaults, 2 murders, 8 cases of torture, 2 kidnappings, 14 raids, 23 neighborhoods profiled by security forces as Resistentes were cateados and after hours.
In addition 150 people have left the country as political refugees to neighboring countries, Canada, USA, Spain and others, 25 have changed the city and 30 have moved to another residence
Meanwhile José Luis Baquedano, said that the repressive state apparatus remains intact and so far the same hierarchy remains in front. "On the early mornings you're getting the youth fear that has been part of the resistance, and militarized society continues.
With regard to the Truth Commission Rodil Rivera, said it is a very important issue for Honduran society but intended to be the same as towards the reconciliation of the Honduran family.
Mery Agurcia of Cofadeh
He wondered how it will be reconciliation after it has been a coup, crimes, persecution, torture, rape as tremendous human rights abuses, when the Supreme Court has cleared the military coup implementers?.
He stressed that without the proper administration of justice there can not be reconciliation, all which will accomplish that "reconciliation" is a National Constituent Assembly to be representative of Honduran society, which will really restore constitutional order and lay the foundations for development, resolution of major problems "and that reconciliation does not occur by decree."
When asked by journalists in relation to which the international community envisions to normalize relations with Honduras, Rivera said that it does not remove the international condemnation of human rights violations, "first there was international consensus that recognized Manuel Zelaya as the sole legitimate president of Honduras until 27 January. "
On the position to have the Platform for Human Rights at the increasing violations of human rights, Gilberto Rios said that "we have taken a position that will investigate the facts, punish the perpetrators and reparations to the victims. "
The essential point that has handled the platform on the position of Pepe Lobo regime and pressure from the U.S. Embassy has made it a condition that this committee, we can not believe a truth commission that will judge a political criminal is armed and who has political power in the country.
Faced with the question of whether it is time that the EU recognizes the government, Rodil Rodil Rivera said no, they should demand more, not just a commission, but that this government really should begin to amend all these atrocities committed , especially on human rights violations, deduct those responsible accountable.
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STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF U.S. LABOR & PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS CONDEMNING THE MURDER OF UNION LEADER VANESSA YAMILETH ZEPEDA & THE REPRESSION SWEEPING HONDURAS
The right to organize is a basic human right of every worker. It is a right defended by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In Honduras, that right is being denied on a daily basis.
Since the 1980s, militarists in Honduras have trained paramilitary forces to torture and murder labor unionists and other activists to prevent the people from exercising their basic right to resist exploitation and oppression.
When the U.S.-backed military coup against the legally elected President Jose Manuel Zelaya took place last June, many of the military participants were the perpetrators of this travesty. They discharged their military, paramilitary and police forces to torture and murder labor union leaders, students, LGBT activists and peasants.
The U.S. government may claim that the election of José "Pepe" Lobo was a "triumph of democracy," but that is an out and out lie. The remnants and new recruits of the genocidal U.S.- trained Battalion 3-16 are still conducting political assassinations in Honduras.
Since the coup, our fellow labor activists have been murdered at an unprecedented rate, and murdered stealthily in a way that allows the Lobo government to claim that these murders were not political.
But the murder of the leader of the SITRAIHSS labor union (Workers Union for the Honduran Social Security Institute), Vanessa Zepeda, who was abducted when she was leaving a union meeting, leaves no doubt in our minds that this is an OFFICIAL POLICY and OFFICIAL COVER-UP by the fraudulently elected Lobo government.
We the undersigned members of
U.S. labor unions as well as progressive organizations, declare our opposition to this official policy of neo- fascist repression in Honduras, and call upon our own unions to denounce this illegitimate government, and to support our fellow unionists in Honduras. . .
Furthermore, we oppose the enabling role the U.S. government has played in the election and “legitimizing” of the Lobo regime, which is only an attempt to justify and sanitize the criminal coup of June 2009.
Anne Pruden
Bryan G. Pfeifer, Staff Organizer, Union of Part-Time Faculty-AFT, Wayne State University, Detroit*
Gavrielle Gemma
Greg Dunkel, Professional Staff Congress-CUNY
Heather Cottin: Plainview-Old Bethpage Congress of Teachers: Retired, PSC-CUNY
LeiLani Dowell, Fight Imperialism, Stand Together
Martha Grevatt , Chair, Civil and Human Rights Committee, UAW Local 122*
Milt Rosenberg
Sean P. Schafron, Coraopolis, PA 15108
Teresa Gutierrez, National IAC Coordinator, Immigrant and Latin American Projects, Co-Coordinator May 1st Coalition
Berta H. Joubert-Ceci, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dave Welsh: Delegate, San Francisco (Calif.) Labor Council
Gloria Rubac, Houston Federation of Teachers, Local 2415, Retired
Joan Marquardt
Leslie Feinberg: Co-founder Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban 5
Mike Gimbel; DC 37, New York City Labor Council Delegate
Michael Kramer, Jersey City, New Jersey, Vets for Peace
Monica Moorehead, Millions for Mumia
Shelley Ettinger, member, AFT Local 3882
Sue Harris, co-director- Peoples Video Network
Wellington Echegaray, Colombian activist
Sharon Black, Bail Out the People Movement Union Coordinator
Joe Piette, Mail Handlers Union, Philadelphia
Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March
Hannah Frisch, Chicago
Mike Gimbel, Local 375 AFSCME Chair of Labor/Community Unity Committee
Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor of the Pan-African News Wire
Gregory Butterfield, member, National Organization of Legal Service Workers Local 2320, UAW *
Michelle Gore-Butterfield, member, Theatrical Wardrobe Union Local 764, IATSE *
Nayereh Tohidi, Ph.D, Professor,Department of Gender & Women's Studies, California State University, Northridge
Tom Paine Cronin
Chuck Kaufman, Alliance for Global Justice
Andy Griggs, L.A. -United Teachers Los Angeles (NEA/AFT)*, Screen Actors Guild*, Actor's Equity* For identification purposes only
Ron Chew, Oak Park, IL 60302
Maria Urbina Gonzalez
Diana Canales
Dale Sorensen, California, USA
Allan Fisher, AFT Local 2121
Chito Quijano, Auditor, International League of Peoples' Struggle & Lead Organizer, CNA/National Nurses United
Panama Alba
Louis Barrios
Les Blough, Editor, Axis of Logic
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The right to organize is a basic human right of every worker. It is a right defended by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In Honduras, that right is being denied on a daily basis.
Since the 1980s, militarists in Honduras have trained paramilitary forces to torture and murder labor unionists and other activists to prevent the people from exercising their basic right to resist exploitation and oppression.
When the U.S.-backed military coup against the legally elected President Jose Manuel Zelaya took place last June, many of the military participants were the perpetrators of this travesty. They discharged their military, paramilitary and police forces to torture and murder labor union leaders, students, LGBT activists and peasants.
The U.S. government may claim that the election of José "Pepe" Lobo was a "triumph of democracy," but that is an out and out lie. The remnants and new recruits of the genocidal U.S.- trained Battalion 3-16 are still conducting political assassinations in Honduras.
Since the coup, our fellow labor activists have been murdered at an unprecedented rate, and murdered stealthily in a way that allows the Lobo government to claim that these murders were not political.
But the murder of the leader of the SITRAIHSS labor union (Workers Union for the Honduran Social Security Institute), Vanessa Zepeda, who was abducted when she was leaving a union meeting, leaves no doubt in our minds that this is an OFFICIAL POLICY and OFFICIAL COVER-UP by the fraudulently elected Lobo government.
We the undersigned members of
U.S. labor unions as well as progressive organizations, declare our opposition to this official policy of neo- fascist repression in Honduras, and call upon our own unions to denounce this illegitimate government, and to support our fellow unionists in Honduras. . .
Furthermore, we oppose the enabling role the U.S. government has played in the election and “legitimizing” of the Lobo regime, which is only an attempt to justify and sanitize the criminal coup of June 2009.
Anne Pruden
Bryan G. Pfeifer, Staff Organizer, Union of Part-Time Faculty-AFT, Wayne State University, Detroit*
Gavrielle Gemma
Greg Dunkel, Professional Staff Congress-CUNY
Heather Cottin: Plainview-Old Bethpage Congress of Teachers: Retired, PSC-CUNY
LeiLani Dowell, Fight Imperialism, Stand Together
Martha Grevatt , Chair, Civil and Human Rights Committee, UAW Local 122*
Milt Rosenberg
Sean P. Schafron, Coraopolis, PA 15108
Teresa Gutierrez, National IAC Coordinator, Immigrant and Latin American Projects, Co-Coordinator May 1st Coalition
Berta H. Joubert-Ceci, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dave Welsh: Delegate, San Francisco (Calif.) Labor Council
Gloria Rubac, Houston Federation of Teachers, Local 2415, Retired
Joan Marquardt
Leslie Feinberg: Co-founder Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban 5
Mike Gimbel; DC 37, New York City Labor Council Delegate
Michael Kramer, Jersey City, New Jersey, Vets for Peace
Monica Moorehead, Millions for Mumia
Shelley Ettinger, member, AFT Local 3882
Sue Harris, co-director- Peoples Video Network
Wellington Echegaray, Colombian activist
Sharon Black, Bail Out the People Movement Union Coordinator
Joe Piette, Mail Handlers Union, Philadelphia
Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March
Hannah Frisch, Chicago
Mike Gimbel, Local 375 AFSCME Chair of Labor/Community Unity Committee
Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor of the Pan-African News Wire
Gregory Butterfield, member, National Organization of Legal Service Workers Local 2320, UAW *
Michelle Gore-Butterfield, member, Theatrical Wardrobe Union Local 764, IATSE *
Nayereh Tohidi, Ph.D, Professor,Department of Gender & Women's Studies, California State University, Northridge
Tom Paine Cronin
Chuck Kaufman, Alliance for Global Justice
Andy Griggs, L.A. -United Teachers Los Angeles (NEA/AFT)*, Screen Actors Guild*, Actor's Equity* For identification purposes only
Ron Chew, Oak Park, IL 60302
Maria Urbina Gonzalez
Diana Canales
Dale Sorensen, California, USA
Allan Fisher, AFT Local 2121
Chito Quijano, Auditor, International League of Peoples' Struggle & Lead Organizer, CNA/National Nurses United
Panama Alba
Louis Barrios
Les Blough, Editor, Axis of Logic
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