Olayo Sorto Hernandez was killed last May 18
Cáceres said that "we will document this crime very well, it will not go unpunished, we will fight so that justice is applied, we will turn to national and international resources."
The COPINH leader accompanied the relatives of Sorto Hernandez who presented the complaint to the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh) regarding the events at Llano Grande, Colomoncagua,department of Intibucá where their relative was foully murdered.
On Tuesday May 18, Olayo Sorto Hernandez was with his family when he received several phone calls to his cell phone from a person who insisted they should meet in a place outside of Llano Grande, very close to his home in Colomoncagua , where he was ambushed and killed by strangers.
After the attack his body was taken to a place known as Quebrachitos, where in the early eighties the National Security Doctrine was fully applied a Salvadoran refugee camp was installed in the Honduras-El Salvador border.
"When the population found out about his murder, they went out, because he was a very dear person, much appreciated, he had no problems with anyone and as a child he worked on armory with his dad, fixing radios and working tools for agriculture," Bertha Cáceres told defensoresenlínea.com.
She added that in late February and late March Olayo Sorto Hernandez had been arrested by police at the request of persons who supported the coup and who had been besieging several members of the popular resistance.
"Even his wife Erlinda had been arrested by police, hence there is already a record. We know that the coup leaders had been accusing him of having weapons in the communal house for the resistance, that he was arming the resistance, well, a lot of slander, so we know the background of the murder of Olayo is a political crime. It is because he was from the COPINH, because he is Indian, because he is from the resistance, and because of his struggle. "
Berta Cáceres
There is no police investigation of this crime, they even denounced that Olayo's wife, Erlinda, filed the complaint with the community court, but the judge refused to go to the crime scene because he was afraid.
The COPINH leader denounced the presence of military vehicles in the area that are used by U.S. troops stationed in the Palmerota Air Base, Comayagua.
"We hold responsible these Palmerota US American troops , who are besieging the Friendship and Meeting Center Utopia, which belongs to COPINH and we know that in here not only eavesdroppers and agents of the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DNIC) are being used, or of the Tenth Battalion which has made continuous deployment when protests, work and training of our organization take place, " she explained.
Caceres said it is important to note that the entire military-police siege and harassment has affected indigenous youths, "especially now that signatures for the Sovereign Declaration for the Constitutional Assembly are being collected, repression has escalated. We know of comrades who have been threatened by anonymous people in Santa Elena, Marcala, La Esperanza, San Marcos de la Sierra, Colomoncagua and in other regions.
After the coup " they are taking our area, as a very particular area where they intend to intimidate the Lenca Indians who are in a process of struggle along with the peoples' resistance, therefore they besiege our radio stations, our offices, there are proceedings which have been imposed by the multinational corporations that have interests in our resources, the richness of our land and we know that they are from the companies Terra, Enersa, Inversa, Ríos Power, and Miguel Facussé, Chukry Kafie, and Fredy Nasser are behind this. "
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