A total of 157 children and young people under 23 have been murdered in Honduras since the inauguration Porfirio Lobo as President, who took office on January 27 this year amid questioning from the international community after winning elections organized by the dictatorial regime that overthrew the constitutional President Manuel Zelaya.
The humanitarian organization Casa Alianza reported that juvenile executions are a tragedy in this country, and that violence escalated after the coup of June 28, 2009 against Zelaya.
However, it stated that since 1998 these crimes against children are commited, which number 5, 380 and give an average of 40 violent deaths per month.
Although children and youth are the most vulnerable sectors which deserve special protection by the State and society, after the the first four months of 2010, a large number of children and young people live circumstances and situations of extreme violence that no person should suffer, said the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Moreover, the Truth Commission installed on May 4 to find out details about the military coup and the right is facing a huge bias, doubts and skepticism, said the former Guatemalan Vice President Eduardo Stein during a discussion at the Dialogue Center American in Washington.
Stein, coordinator of the Truth Commission, said the intensity of polarization has not diminished at all and signs of rapprochement between the parties are still being searched for and see if there is room for dialogue.
He said the commission is criticized from both sides: those who believe that since the coup the Constitution remains in force and those who question this point.
But human rights violations continue in Honduras after the coup, with killings, harassment and impunity, denounced on Wednesday a mission of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, to complete a three-day visit.
The comission expresses its deep concern at continued violations in the context of the coup of June 28, 2009 that ousted Manuel Zelaya, posted a statement released at a news conference.
In Madrid, Wolf met with the head of the Spanish government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, to whom he defended its legitimacy and called for a commission of jurists to consider the amnesty to cover political crimes related to the coup, and that experts investigate human rights abuses , especially the murder of several journalists.
Finally, Human Rights Watch in Washington denounced the dismissal of several judges who opposed the coup in Honduras against then-President Zelaya, and consider it a severe blow to judicial independence.
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