Attempted kidnapping of active member of the resistance

 Tomas Enrique Garcia photos CODEH

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Police officers and members of  death squads  came into the marches taking pictures and lifting data without generating suspicion, which is one of the methods used by death squads under the police.

Attempt to kidnap an active member of the Resistance

These persons, fully identified, tracked the young Tomas Enrique Garcia Castillo, who is an active member of the National Front and the Popular Resistance on Saturday, when the young man left  university and  took off to  Colonia Kennedy  heading home and walking along the external wall of the Escuela Normal Mixta Pedro Nufio around ten at night. Suddenly Toyota double cab 3.0, soft gray, inside parked. Two people were inside the vehicle  wearing ski masks, three of them got out and tried, by force, to get him inside  the vehicle, generating an exchange of blows until the boy managed to escape . As a result of this aggression he suffered severe wounds in  various parts of his body, unable to continue his studies and  go to work.

In testimony given before the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, the young man tells a picture of heroism to face bravely the cowardly act of members of death squads, as they attempted kidnapping him. They  told him that they wanted to see if he behaved like a man, as he had done the day of the demonstration on Thursday. In response the young man found the courage ... to not be afraid to be strongly confronted with his tormentors, saving his life thanks to the challenging achievement factor. CODEH has requested interim measures  to ensure his life.

The context

This occurs in a context of systematic violations of human rights ranging from murder, torture, kidnapping, raping women, burglaries, messages containing death threats, among others. CODEH alerts the international community that the situation now lived by  members of the Resistance in Honduras is pathetic, resources to combat impunity in the domestic courts have collapsed, the impudence and lack of decorum  of the judiciary and prosecutors is so obvious that impunity results  from building suppressiveness of people who have lost faith in the formal institutions of justice,.