Oscar Flores, a member of the Resistance, who in the demonstrations carries the banner which counts the days in resistance, was kidnapped today. Flores contacted his wife and told her that military had captured him and had him in a place he didn't know. Communication was interrputed and since then, Flores does not answer the calls made to his cell phone.
Flores' wife filed the complaint to COFADEH. A spokesperson from this organization informed that he is not detained in any of the police stations, which is why it is feared that his life is in danger.
OSCAR FLORES, who participated today in the activity of collecting signatures was captured by repressive forces of the state, which don't recognize having him. We ask for the immediate mobilization and denounce to secure his life. We responsabilize from now the spurious state , which today rules Honduras. RS
Oscar Flores is the Honduran man who walks every day, near the front of the marches, carrying this sign, adding a day, everyday to the running total of days in resistance. He refers to himself as the “el hombre de la cronica pedagogica de los dias en Resistencia”, perhaps translated as “the man who keeps an educational chronology of the days in resistance.” (RIGHTS ACTION)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
by Andrés Pavon, CODEH
With the prudence that characterizes us, we denounce that a person we trust informed us that she received a phone call from the cell phone of comrade Oscar Flores, who stated he was in the hands of police, that they held him in an unknown place, that they were torturing him. She stated that he heard him crying.
From CODEH, four members of our organization mobilized, amongst them Andrés Pavón, President of the organization. We visited police stations and an activist who lives a block and a half away from Oscar's house, in colonia Espíritu Santo, could confirm that he is not in the house, his house is closed.
CODEH clarifies that this is not an alarm like a journalist, presumably from the resistance, who runs a program, is in the habit of mentioning that we are not accostumbed to frighten the population. We give a warning so that people take proper security measures.
Who is Oscar
He is a person who has participated in all programmed demonstrations by the Front. He is an agricultural engineer who was three months ago detained by the military near the Obelisco park, they took him inside a truck and he managed to escape.
With the prudence that characterizes us, we denounce that a person we trust informed us that she received a phone call from the cell phone of comrade Oscar Flores, who stated he was in the hands of police, that they held him in an unknown place, that they were torturing him. She stated that he heard him crying.
From CODEH, four members of our organization mobilized, amongst them Andrés Pavón, President of the organization. We visited police stations and an activist who lives a block and a half away from Oscar's house, in colonia Espíritu Santo, could confirm that he is not in the house, his house is closed.
CODEH clarifies that this is not an alarm like a journalist, presumably from the resistance, who runs a program, is in the habit of mentioning that we are not accostumbed to frighten the population. We give a warning so that people take proper security measures.
Who is Oscar
He is a person who has participated in all programmed demonstrations by the Front. He is an agricultural engineer who was three months ago detained by the military near the Obelisco park, they took him inside a truck and he managed to escape.
Oscar is the one who walks with a banner, where the days since the existence of the resistance are counted.
Brief background
We now live under the guise of a kidnapped State, atomised by the social conflict wich flared from June 28th onwards, the date which marked a scenario of visible contradictions, since the structural causes of the badly resolved or unsolved crisis were shaken, a crisis which has been lived in a dormant manner and that today, has arisen as the result of the historical contradictions of Honduran society. A struggle was awakened to discuss and possess the ideas of freedom with Honduras.
Honduras is today facing a rapidly running changes scenario in an ocean marked by impunity, crime control over security structures. There are forces that trigger mechanisms to support the crisis and to not allow joint forces in a state of social, political, economic, and cultural equilibrium. They are attempting on a daily basis against the construction of an effective democracy and a rule of law that allows the thought of the majority to take possession in the strategic lines of the state. This is where the atmosphere of systematic violations of human rights is fed.
We are experiencing a difficult time. From CODEH, we have considered the need of rescuing the public morale of the state. In this effort, it is necessary to possess the war of ideas, developing contradictions, dialectic in the context of the meeting of the actors in conflict. At this stage, we should be finding ourselves rescuing what has been taken away from us, the morality of the state. It is necessary to take risks in defeating the structural causes that generate the scarce social and economic opportunities for the majority. The following causes, which trigger and cause outbreaks of mechanisms of social control, should be eliminated
We exhort the people to proceed in the most talented and careful way this violent scenario of violence that shakes us all currently every day.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
COMITE PARA LA DEFENSA DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN HONDURAS COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN HONDURAS
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