Women of the resistance, the most threatened in recent days
by Dina Meza
Blanca Dole, Celeste Mejia, and Gabriela Flores, feminist collective directives of University Women, COFEMUN, denounced that they are persecuted consistently since last December by cars without license plates and tinted windows, while maintaining a campaign of harassment through phone calls where they are requested abortion pills and are asked where are the abortion clinics.The Collective of University Women is a women's organization that maintains a belligerent role in the country especially since the June 28 coup in 2009 , in addition to defending the rights of the lesbian-gay-transgender-bisexual in the country.
"After Walter Tróchez and Renan and Fajardo were killed, I felt more persecution by unfamiliar cars without license plates and tinted windows, plus stranger women call saying they want to update my credit card and ask for personal information, but when I refuse to provide them any, they get very angry, "Blanca Dole described.
Last year, in May, Dole was subject of a criminal trial for Martha Lorena Alvarado, Member of Congress and who became Chancellor of the Republic under the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti, for the crime of violation of privacy when the COFEMUN reported that the parlamentarian woman is anti women's rights and promoted the inquisition.
Reina Suyapa Aguilar Centeno
Dozens of people have come to COFADEH to denounce such actions placing them in imminent danger. One of them is the deputy director of the National School of Fine Arts, Rafael Gerardo Caceres who has been plagued with cellphone messages to the extent that his case worried Amnesty International and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the latter granted him interim relief to the Honduran State to take actions necessary to decrease the risk to his life.
Aguilar Centeno is an active member of the Popular Resistance and is integrated with other systems that perform actions for the reestablishment of Honduras, a fact that makes her a blank of the repressive forces, which have grown in strength since the coup of June 28, 2009 against President Manuel Zelaya.
"It's your turn to die," was the message received on February 24, for which she immediately proceeded to dial the phone from where it was sent, but no one answered on the other side.
"My phones are tapped, because when I make calls I feel a hole in the device," she said while she blamed the illegal government Porfirio Lobo Sosa for anything that might happen to her.
Last week Claudia Brizuela was murdered in her own home. She was the daughter of the resistance leader, Pedro Brizuela, who stated that this is revenge because he is active in the People's National Resistance Front.
Hooded men trying to kidnap young college student member of the resistance
The area has become the hub of men engaged in kidnapping resistance members victims who are moved to secret jails where they are cruelly tortured.
These include the journalist Cesar Silva and cameramen Omar Ricardo Rodriguez and Manuel de Jesús Murillo Varela and women who have reported attempted abductions similar to that chronicles of the young university student. They even fractured the arm of one of them when he escaped from aggression.
Besides being a member of the National Front for Popular Resistance, Garcia Castillo integrates Patriotic Coalition and is part of the People's Revolutionary Union, URP.
"I came back from my classes at nine in the evening, I got about Paiz supermarket and walked for a stretch at a time it was a bit dark, I suddenly intercepted a car where inside were five hooded men who wanted to take me by force to the car but I resisted and they did not achieve their goal, "said the boy who has his face badly beaten.
He added that by opposing the kidnapping, the men wearing vests, carrying heavy weapons and who had a strange accent struck him on the back with something compelling, besides hurting his eyes, kicked him and shoved and insulted him .
He described the hooded men being athletic and having a foreign accent, "so I assume they are paramilitaries from another country who are repressing the resistance members who are active in this country."
The incident occurred on Friday 26 February in Colonia Kennedy
For him it was something so fast, but the survival instinct made him run away, "he had blurred vision, but at some point someone fired and they ran away and went into the Toyota car that was gray with tinted windows and had no license plates.
But despite the spook he noted that "this does not stop one, these blows provide one experience, wisdom, neither weapons nor bullets are going to make us surrender."
He described himself as a man who has always been with the struggles of the people, "when I got fully into the resistance and when I went to the airport to bring the polls, I knew I was going to lose my job, my wife, I had an epiphany I knew the price of all this, this is the price of defending the social struggles.
He recommended his university colleagues not to be afraid, that there are first convictions, ideals, "This fight is worth it because this fight is for the Honduran people for changes, so that this blockade doesn't exist. I tell young people to be prepared, to not be afraid that change will come. "
His life is in danger: Gunmen search for cameraman in his house
Manuel de Jesús Murillo Varela
Everyday the threat to the life of Manuel de Jesús Murillo Varela is more latent. Just five days ago gunmen threatened one of his neighbours with a gun for him to tell them whether he was in the house.
Murillo Varela, is the Globo TV cameraman who was kidnapped and tortured on Feb. 2, by police who took him to a secret prison, where life was at risk , along with Ricardo Rodriguez, another cameraman who works with the news Mi Nacion.
They took his computer and forced him to bring them the videos with the march of resistance taped on them in Jan. 27, when President Manuel Zelaya Rosales left , which he took the police station in colonia Kennedy, 3 February, where he was forced to take the videos, after their abductors on February 2 threatened him that if not delivered, his two young daughters and his mother would be killed.
Murillo was arrested by police on 25 November 2009 in a time when he was sticking posters saying "Yes to the Constituent Assembly, No to elections " being taken to the same police station mentioned above , there the same policeman who attended his kidnapping, forced him to show the poster as he took a picture of him.
In testimony given before the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, COFADEH, he related that the danger to his life has not passed, then on 25 February when there was a massive mobilization of the National Front for Popular Resistance FNRP, their oppressors went back to the streets where they infiltrated in the activity to monitor people and draw profiles of their next victims.
Criminal activity did not end there but the policeman who took photos of him at the police station of colonia Kennedy saw him, threatened him to death, forcing Murillo Varela, who covered the mobilization for the channel, to focus on him and record it on the video, which was aired on that channel.
These are the policemen who kidnapped the cameraman Manuel de Jesús Murillo Varela
Although the Human Rights Prosecutor is aware of the life in danger of the affected and have seen the video of his oppressor, as it was circulated by a channel wide audience, so far there is no fast investigation given the severity of the case .
That makes those who are creating insecurity on his life to act in complete impunity, as demonstrated by the presence of the same armed men inquiring about his whereabouts on Saturday 27 February.
"I fear for my life, those people are still looking for me and my daughters and my mother are at risk, sometimes I cannot sleep because there are too many vehicles and motorcycles mobilization late at night near my house, which is located at a street corner, sometimes I think they will come and hurt us, " he told COFADEH.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR issued precautionary measures in favor of Murillo Varela requesting the Honduran state a report on the implementation of the same, within 20 days.
Although six days have passed since this international body granted these, the State has not taken concrete action to protect his life.
The cameraman was in the team of Channel 8, a television media launched by the government of Zelaya Rosales.
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