Regime Harassment to human rights defender :A dead rat hanged at her door

Dina Meza

Gilda Velasquez Martinez

A dead rat with a fishing line hanging on her door and walls full of feces,  surprised Gilda Velasquez Martinez, Director and Founder Unlimited Amparo Ovary in Resistencia, the past 08 February.

This woman has not ceased to participate in any activities of the resistance, the display of her person by the coup regime to sow insecurity, surely is part of the instructions that graduates of the School of the Americas, have given their students, as part of the coup.

"We found a rat around who had around its neck  a fishing line with  a drawn pentagram on my name and excrement filled the walls," Velasquez Martinez reported, indicating that their work offices are located in the neighborhood of the capital La Leona, where their  neighbor is a police officer named Garcia.

Garcia makes use of his  arrogance in the neighborhood, which has risen in tone since  the coup, in addition to carrying out actions of harassment against her and the organization she leads.

Before a lawyer COFADEH, related that on 22 September when thousands were forcibly evicted by the police and the army near the Brazilian Embassy,where President Manuel Zelaya arrived and which housed dozens of them escaping repression.

"This officer arrived on September 23 with 7 tear gas  control police patrols, the officers attempted break down the door but the presence of human rights organizations and international and national press made them desist from their intention to launch tear gas canisters and were already breaking the windowpanes. They were not satisfied that but they put a padlock on the door of that see anyone from entering.

Implemented the policy of terror against members of the resistance from 28 June 2009, has raised its tone in recent days after the assumption to power of Porfirio Lobo, "the other side of the coup," which has left  killed, tortured and persecuted.

While facing the international community Lobo Sosa speaks of reconciliation with a supposed Truth commission totally discredited, is deployed alongside state terrorism against the people of Honduras has decided to resist and fight for a Constituent Assembly that is responsible draft a new constitution in Honduras