voselsoberano.com | Wednesday May 19, 2010 13:39
by Diana Canales
In La Ceiba and Choluteca
Red Morazánica de Información
Red Morazánica de Información
One of the teachers assaulted during the teachers' mobilization conducted along with other members of the Resistance, in La Ceiba, said in a radio broacast that the Cobras Police dispersed demonstrators, who came from the department of Atlántida, in northern Honduras.
"These police officers are beasts, they took us from our hair , attacked us with clubs when we were already going out [ending the demonstration]", said the victim.
The teacher claimed breathlessly that, in addition to "beating us with batons, they insulted us, offended us."
The victim, raising her voice shouting into the microphone: "We put the complaint to international organizations and human rights" because of police repression.
And said: "There are wounded in Atlantida, about 20 beaten."
The injured, who did not give her name, he said: "we were demonstrating peacefully and we planned to finish at twelve noon, but police are giving us five minutes to withdraw."
The Special Operation Command Cobras (COECO) is considered an "elite group of police, who are said" to be trained for any mission, "including" civil disturbance control "and respond to the motto" Victory or death ".
Likewise in Choluteca
Between four and five thousand teachers, according to source, of the departments of Valle and Choluteca, concentrated in the port city of San Lorenzo in the south of Honduras, where they took for a while a segment of the Pan American Highway, which was described by them as "a success."
The demonstration was dispersed by the presence of two military commands "full of soldiers" of the Eleventh Battalion, fueled by batons and tear gas canisters at 11:27 am
Confrontation between "parents" and "parents"
A group of persons claiming to be an association of parents, in a hunger strike for two days, at the basement of the National Congress (NC), in Tegucigalpa, "to require teachers to respect the right to education of their children, and the CN to revise the Teaching Statute, were confronted with other parents who assured to be "real."
That group stated that "they refused and did not know any organization that says to represent parents" and accused the "others" on a hunger strike, to be "employees of the Purchasing Department of the City Hall [Municipal] paid by Ricardo Álvarez [ Central District's current mayor]. "
There were arguments crossing between the two groups and the strikers say they are associated parents, accused the "other parents" of throwing things and papers at them. The strikers, were moved to another location by police.
The Federation of Magisterial Organizations of Honduras (FOMH), which represents about 65 000 teachers, held simultaneous demonstrations in the North, South, East, Central and western Honduras, in protest at attempts to cancel the Teaching Statute and claims of the CN to pass a new law intended to "privatize education."
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"These police officers are beasts, they took us from our hair , attacked us with clubs when we were already going out [ending the demonstration]", said the victim.
The teacher claimed breathlessly that, in addition to "beating us with batons, they insulted us, offended us."
The victim, raising her voice shouting into the microphone: "We put the complaint to international organizations and human rights" because of police repression.
And said: "There are wounded in Atlantida, about 20 beaten."
The injured, who did not give her name, he said: "we were demonstrating peacefully and we planned to finish at twelve noon, but police are giving us five minutes to withdraw."
The Special Operation Command Cobras (COECO) is considered an "elite group of police, who are said" to be trained for any mission, "including" civil disturbance control "and respond to the motto" Victory or death ".
Likewise in Choluteca
Between four and five thousand teachers, according to source, of the departments of Valle and Choluteca, concentrated in the port city of San Lorenzo in the south of Honduras, where they took for a while a segment of the Pan American Highway, which was described by them as "a success."
The demonstration was dispersed by the presence of two military commands "full of soldiers" of the Eleventh Battalion, fueled by batons and tear gas canisters at 11:27 am
Confrontation between "parents" and "parents"
A group of persons claiming to be an association of parents, in a hunger strike for two days, at the basement of the National Congress (NC), in Tegucigalpa, "to require teachers to respect the right to education of their children, and the CN to revise the Teaching Statute, were confronted with other parents who assured to be "real."
That group stated that "they refused and did not know any organization that says to represent parents" and accused the "others" on a hunger strike, to be "employees of the Purchasing Department of the City Hall [Municipal] paid by Ricardo Álvarez [ Central District's current mayor]. "
There were arguments crossing between the two groups and the strikers say they are associated parents, accused the "other parents" of throwing things and papers at them. The strikers, were moved to another location by police.
The Federation of Magisterial Organizations of Honduras (FOMH), which represents about 65 000 teachers, held simultaneous demonstrations in the North, South, East, Central and western Honduras, in protest at attempts to cancel the Teaching Statute and claims of the CN to pass a new law intended to "privatize education."
DC19052010
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