The criminals ransacked the house
Three heavily armed men came as a surprise to the home of Otilia Deras on Tuesday March 9 in Colonia Los Alamos, San Pedro Sula. She is wife of martyr Herminio Deras and was forced to remain in a toilet while the gunmen beat the maid.
Herminio was assassinated on January 29 1983, in San Pedro Sula, by members of Battalion 3-16. He was a committed social leader, whose crime is still unpunished 27 years after his death.
It was about 9:30 in the morning when the incident occurred. The men took advantage that the gate was open to get to ransack the house, hitting in the head the person in charge of the office of the house.
The order was to take everything in their path, as Otilia told defensoresenlinea.com , about an hour later, she explained that she doesn't know how they left still being able to take some things out of the house alerting her to be careful that if they did not kill her, others would do so if she left her gate open.
"I was filled with courage so I told one of them that they shouldn't do that to me, that I am the wife of Herminio Deras, a man who gave his life for the country," he added.
Without leaving her fright, Otilia noted that it is shocking what has happened considering all that is happening in the country since the coup.
On February 24 Claudia Brizuela was killed in San Pedro Sula, daughter of Pedro Brizuela, an active member of the resistance in the north-western region, who considers that the death of his relative is a product of police state in the country against people who are against the coup.
The repressive actions that are disguised as criminal acts have left unfortunate consequences for the country, recently, last Friday, teacher Dunia Ruiz, was the victim of an attempted hit by unknown men who also were armed.
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Strangers trying to run over an active teacher in the resistance
Dunia Ruiz
"A low wall of concrete saved my life when two unidentified men on two occasions tried to run over me a black colored vehicle, Dunia Ruiz, a teacher told the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, COFADEH, minutes after the event last Friday March 5.
Ruiz has been a social activist who since the Union of Public Employees, always, more so in the context of the coup has received acts of harassment and persecution against her life , which have increased since September 22, a day after the arrival of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales to the Embassy of Brazil, last year, after the coup perpetrated.
"On 22 September after the eviction took place at the Embassy, I saw two vehicles colonel type which passed my house and stopped casually, pretending they were wrecked and they opened the windows, plus two young men on a motorbike had come in search of me to my house allegedly to collect money for items, but I have no credit in any agency, "she lamented.
On friday, the first time the vehicle brushed against her leg she thought it was someone who could not drive, therefore she was unalarmed and trusted too much the situation, but a few minutes later two men driving the same car followed with the intent to run her over and to pretend to show all that happened as an accident.
At the time of the attack she returned from paying food maintenance to her children on the outskirts of the capital. A youth from the sector, whom she asked if it was people in that area informed her that they weren't, but it's been a while since they follow her.
After the second attempt to run the vehicle over her, it sped away, "when the car stopped half a block I observed that the man who was co-pilot had signaled him and the one who was driving had a tattoo of a dragon on his left arm, who later went to a billiard, "I saw that one had a big gun."
Ruiz took a taxi to ward off a third attack, but the men followed the car which she addressed. The chase lasted about 15 minutes.
COFADEH requested security measures to vice minister of security
In an urgent letter sent to Armando Calidonio, Vice Minister of Security, by the lawyer Kenya Oliva from the Area Access to Justice of COFADEH, she recounts the events which put at serious risk the life of teacher Ruiz and asked to provide appropriate security measures "to ensure her physical integrity and her family's."
The note was answered by office number SUB-SEDS 033-2010, where Calidonio tells the lawyer Oliva that he has instructed to handle the request.
Since this note does not have effective security measures, the COFADEH fears they may carry out new attacks against the affected.
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