voselsoberano.com | Wednesday May 19 2010 9:16
Angel Miguel Insulza
The letter emphasizes that from January this year, various events have been developing that call into question the effective implementation by Honduras of its international commitment to combat impunity for serious human rights violations committed afterJune 28 2009.
These facts involve various branches of government and have to do with the approval of an amnesty decree with the dismissal in the prosecution of six military officers accused of supporting the coup d'etat, with the appointment of Deputy for life of Mr. Roberto Micheletti, with the appointment of Romeo Vásquez Velásquez as Manager of the national telecommunications company HONDUTEL, and more recently with the establishment of a Truth Commission that excludes the investigation of human rights violations and arbitrary dismissal of several judges for being critical towards the coup d'état.
Sources: http://voselsoberano.com/v1/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5660:cejil-comision-de-la-verdad-excluye-investigacion-de-violaciones-a-ddhh&catid=1:noticias-generales
and http://www.defensoresenlinea.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=746:cejil-comision-de-la-verdad-excluye-investigacion-de-violaciones-a-ddhh&catid=42:seg-y-jus&Itemid=159
The Truth Commission doesn't meet the required minimum standards
The Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) has sent to the international community their thoughts regarding the launch of the Truth Commission by the regime of Porfirio Lobo Sosa in Honduras. E CEJIL calls upon the various national and international organizations to urge the State of Honduras to correct the course of the Truth Commission in accordance with established internal standards for these effects.
The international organizations as the Organization of American States (OAS), the United Nations (UN) as well as cooperation agencies and the community of States are asked to reassess the political and economic support to this initiative as long as a participatory, inclusive consensus process that meets minimum standards which demonstrate a real willingness to guarantee the right to the truth of the Honduran people isn't carried out.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), is urged to pronounce itself on the shortcomings of the Commission of Truth and to specifically indicate its concern over the exclusion of human rights violations as part of the core mandate that any process of transitional justice should include.
The organs and UN rapporteurs, are called to maintain continuous monitoring on the situation in which Honduras finds itself and to monitor compliance with the report issued by the Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights. See reflections
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