Main collaborator of father Fausto Milla suffers persecution and death threats
A new case of persecution and death threats against defenders of human rights was recently recorded by the Area of Access to Justice of the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH).
This is young Denia Mejia, who filed a complaint of death threats she has received during the week between March 14 to March 20 this year.
"I had received threats right after the coup took place, consisting of electronic text messages on my phone telling me to depart from the resistance if I wanted to live," said Mejia.
She added that other text messages said if she remembered the case of Mabel Riccy (raped multiple times and killed by soldiers in 1992).
"From July to date I had not received more threats, but on March 14, while in La Esperanza during the People's National Constituent Assembly, I received another message in my cell phone and on March 17, I received others via voice mail, where they said: Shut your beak, girl, if you don't want someone else to silence it". Afterwards, I received another message on Sunday and on Wednesday another one, "explained the complainant.
Mejia explained that on Saturday (March 20) last week, "while I was outside, my apartment was robbed. They took my laptop, entered through a window and left through the front door. They rummaged through the clothes, as if they were looking for something, they spread everything and rummaged the closet, and didn't take other expensive things, such as a camera and a phone, "said the complainant.
Denia Mejia's apartment is located in a central location in the city of Santa Rosa de Copan in western Honduras.The National Resistance Front of People is being threatened and persecuted, and several of its members have been killed
Mejia works in the radio program "Morazán Vive"(Morazán Lives) that airs from Monday to Friday from 1:00 to 1:30 pm on the radio La Voz del Occidente. This program addresses the current threats and repression suffered by the Honduran people, who have mobilized to express their condemnation of the coup and who demanded the return to constitutional order.
When asked about the causes of persecution, to which she is being subjected, she said, "I think that it is because since March we are broadcasting the program of the resistance with Father Fausto Milla, also because I've always been in all activities of the resistance. "
"The radio program "Morazán Lives" is a participation program, in which we only serve as guides. The ones, who really make the program, are the listeners", said Mejia.
Denia Mejia is a teacher, single (30-years-old), student of business administration, living in the city of Santa Rosa de Copán, in Copán, and is the main contributor of acknowledged priest Fausto Milla, who heads the Honduran Ecumenical Institute of Service to the Community (INESC).
Father Fausto Milla experienced death threats and persecution during the brutal repression unleashed by the military and intelligence agencies in El Salvador and Honduras supported by the United States, who implemented the National Security Doctrine against opponents and opposition to the existing regimes and left thousands of dead and hundreds of disappeared in Central America in the early 1980's.
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