A violent eviction against 28 rural settlements in the Aguán is prepared for Monday morning. Thousands of military, police and security guards of the landowners, have militarized the recovered land sites, according to the latest information this weekend..
After the arrival of combined forces from different parts of the country, the zone is completely militarized, strong operations are being carried out with the intention of frightening men and women clustered in the Unified Movement of Peasants of Aguán, MUCA, struggling for a piece of land.
Psychological operations that are a prelude to a violent eviction prepared by landlords with the support of the armed forces and police patrols, degenerates into state terrorism against unarmed men and women.
We denounce State terrorism by this government led by the President, Mr. Porfirio Lobo Sosa, who has sent 29 military commands and vehicles without license plates with large high caliber weapons, which have reached the Aguan area, at around 4:00 in the afternoon on Saturday April 10, 2010, with the aim of intimidating, in the first place, the farmers who have recovered the land, and the people of the area, so that the peasants accept the proposal given by the Government of the Republic, to defend the interests of the three foreign landowners, who have settled in a fraudulent way in this valley. Proof of this is that they are staying in the facilities of the oil extracting plant, owned by Miguel Facusse, said the Coordinator of the Aguan Popular Organizations in a statement.
The COPA document adds that , "We hold responsible the President of the Republic, the Security Minister, the Defence Minister, and business entrepeneurs, Miguel Facusse, Rene Morales, and Reinaldo Canales, of any violent act that is generated in the next few hours in the Region Lower Aguan, that comes to increase the number of killings of peasants. "
According to data provided by farmers in the left bank of the River Aguan, military and police have focused on several points, amongst them in Quebrada de Agua, where the factory is located, where oil palm is processed, which is owned by Miguel Facussé .
"They have done intensive patrolling and we have been threatened to the point of throwing bursts of bullets into a small 10-year-old, who came to see them when they were doing military exercises," complained to defensoresenlinea.com, a peasant woman, on Sunday night April 11 .
While also in the Fifteenth Infantry Battalion, the Naval Base, and the Fourth Battalion combine their forces to go out at dawn on Monday, in order to take the farmers out of the land appropriated by landowners and which have been recovered by the the former.
A proposal for the landowners, but which was presented by the government, is on the table for "dialogue" with thousands of guns pointed at the head of MUCA. Through this same dialogue, it is intended to leave the members of this organization, who claim the State lands, as servants of the landowners and handcuffed to their wishes, the answer must be given by MUCA on Tuesday.
The police-military mobilization that will leave millions of expenses to the Honduran people, the paramilitaries included, is on the verge, like during the day before men in motorcycle murdered farmer José Leonel Alvarez Guerra, Tocoa Colon, when he arrived home on April 07 , amid reports of the presence of Billy Joya, a member of the Death Squad 3-16 and who since the coup is taking part in actions that violate human rights.
Also, the radio and television broadcast of the regime took place in this context, to remind repeatedly of the criminal penalties for the manufacture, storage, transport, use, income, purchase or supply of arms, explosives, or materials of war or combat, emphasizing AK47 rifles, submachine guns, pistols and chimbas or homemade weapons.
The Fourth Battalion of La Ceiba is also involved in repressive actions
"They are training at the Tenth Battalion of Trujillo to activate explosives and to mine all the farms, where we are, and thus destroy us, while at the same time, hooded men beset us," complained one of the farmers interviewed by defensoresenlinea.com.
Although the actions are public due to MUCA denouncing them through radio programs such as Voices Against Forgetting(Voces contra el Olvido), of COFADEH and the Popular Front of National Resistance Front , so far, the state institutions, which should avoid bloodshed in the Aguán, have not yet taken matters into their hands.
If this violent eviction takes place, thousands of peasants are in grave danger at the moment, which is why international human rights organizations should be alert, to send urgent appeals to the Honduran government to stop this slaughter.
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