According to Bertha Oliva, an internationally well known human rights advocate and director of COFADEH [Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Persons], Honduras is still under a continuing repression one year later after President Zelaya was ousted on June 28, 2009.
Oliva reports that Cofadeh has documented 24 cases of Resistance members who have been assassinated since questioned President Porfirio Lobo Sosa was sworn in office [in January 29], until June 27, 2010. Eight journalists are amongst the cases that have been investigated by Cofadeh.
“What worries us is the silence and that the International Community believes that everything in Honduras is back to normal. With data in our hands, we can say that we are in a more vulnerable situation than that which we lived in the first six months of the Coup d’etat. During that time, the repression in the streets was seen live in front of everybody, the victims were of the Resistance Front and foreigners as well.”
“Nowadays, we see a script been developed to identify, persecute and select leaders of the National Resistance Front. To immobilize the Front, they are torturing and massacring the local leaders. There is pattern that we are identifying; now they are killing the son or daughter of a leader, which preoccupies us.
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