Agents of the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DNIC) broke into the apartment where members of the LGBT community liveMario Calderón recounted that these two agents of the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DNIC) broke into the apartment he shares with other friends in the neighborhood Barrio Abajo in Tegucigalpa.
"They knocked on our door, said no more, came in, they put us against the wall, they attacked a comrade, beat him and asked us if we had something inside the apartment and we told him no," Calderon denounced.
He added that they told him to open the suitcases, to take out all the clothes and to spread them on the floor of the apartment. Afterwards, one of the officers noted that the complainant had a camera and asked him who owned the photographic device.
"I told them the name of the owner and he told me to show him an ID, then they raised the beds, they saw that we had nothing, then one of the officers looked at the wall where I have a blanket of the Revolutionary Left Movement ( MIR) and they threatened me. "
"They told me that poor little me, if I had something pending before the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DNIC), then something is happening that shouldn't be happening because they went to our room without a court warrant, they never even said they were from the DNIC, they didn't say their names nor show any plates, and this is an aggression that we received because it should not be happening, "Calderon said indignantly.
Apparently in the apartment building where the complainant and his companions live, there was a robbery and agents arrived to investigate the matter, but ignoring the procedures to require the citizenship.
"We call on the police, the DNIC and especially the Security Minister to please take a hand in the matter, as these people go on doing what is abuse of authority with us."
Asked if the police attack is due to political issues, Calderon said, "Well they came with the problem going on in the lower floor of the building where we live, where a robbery took place last night ."
Then supposedly they came to do a search "but when realizing that I belong to a range of organizations, and when he saw even a blanket of a leftist organization, then I think all this it is about another issue, detailed the youth.
Regarding a possible homophobic attack or political persecution for belonging to the People's National Resistance Front (FNRP), Calderon said that it took place in both ways, because we realize that all LGBT organizations in Honduras have supported the resistance and that's why the police regime here in Honduras becomes homophobic and they persecute members of our organization.
Marlon Calderon is a journalist of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Comunity which belongs to the People's Revolutionary Union (URP) and he is a member of the Association for A Better Life for People Infected and Affected with HIV / AIDS (APUVIMEH) and the Renacer Youth Group.
Source: http://www.defensoresenlinea.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=804:comunidad-gay-blanco-de-persecucion-y-ataques-por-parte-de-agentes-de-investigacion&catid=54:den&Itemid=171 At least 16 transexual and homosexual persons have been assassinated in Honduras since the coup d'état
Young Honduran LGBT Activist Murdered in Wave of Violence and Impunity
12/17/2009
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Comission.
Press Release
For Immediate ReleaseContact: Marcelo Ferreyra: (54) 11-4665-7527, mferreyra@iglhrc.org (Spanish, English)
(December 17, 2009) On December 13, Walter Tróchez, a 27 year-old gay rights activist and member of the National Front of Resistance Against the Coup d'Etat, was shot in a drive-by attack by unknown assailants. He died several hours later in a hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. According to Honduran NGOs Red Lesbica Cattrachas and Feministas en Resistencia, his is the sixteenth known murder in the Honduran lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community since the military coup on June 28, 2009. Since the ouster of the country’s democratically elected government, a climate of impunity has enabled systematic acts of transphobic and homophobic violence. Nobody has been brought to justice for any of these crimes, many of which were committed publicly. More deaths of LGBT people have likely gone unreported.
The human rights of people in all sectors of Honduran society are being systematically violated as the direct result of the military coup. However, the accelerated rate at which LGBT people have been killed in the last five months suggests a targeted pattern of violence.
Those killed since the coup include:
- Vicky Hernández Castillo, transgender, June 29, 2009
- Valeria, (Darwin Joya), transgender, June 30, 2009
- Martina Jackson (Martín Jackson), transgender, June 30, 2009
- Fabio Adalberto Aguilera Zamora, gay, July 4, 2009
- Héctor Emilio Maradiaga Snaider, gay, August 9, 2009
- Michelle Torres, (Milton Torres), transgender, August 30, 2009
- Enrique Andrés García Nolasco, gay, September 2, 2009
- Jorge Samuel Miranda Mata (Salome), transgender, September 20, 2009
- Carlos Reynieri Salmerón (Sadya), transgender, September 20, 2009
- Marión Lanza, transgender, October 9, 2009
- Montserrat Maradiaga (Elder Noe Maradiaga), transgender, October 10, 2009
- Juan Carlos Zelaya, transgender, October 26, 2009
- Rigoberto Wilson Carrasco, transgender, November 2, 2009
- José Luís Salandía, gay, November 2, 2009
- Anonymous man, gay, November 4, 2009
- Walter Tróchez, gay, December 13, 2009
Like others in Honduras, Tróchez faced significant abuse for his political and human rights activism and his sexual orientation, which escalated after the coup. On July 20, 2009, he was detained by authorities for participating in a peaceful, sit-down protest across from the Congress of the Republic. During his detention, he was brutally beaten and denigrated because of his sexual orientation. Then, on December 4, Tróchez was kidnapped and beaten by four masked men who came in a gray pickup truck without license plates, suspected by activists to come from the police investigative unit (DNIC). He managed to escape and file a complaint to national and international authorities just days before he was murdered.
Three days before the murder, on December 10, 2009—Human Rights Day—Honduran LGBT human rights defender Indyra Mendoza spoke to State and civil society representatives at the United Nations in New York. Mendoza warned that the situation of LGBT people in Honduras is dire, calling for "states free of discrimination for sexual orientation and gender identity [and] free from impunity" and challenging religious organizations’ roles in supporting the coup.
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) stands in solidarity and sorrow with the family and friends of Walter Tróchez, as well as those of everyone killed in these bloody months. The international community must support the courageous activists continuing to defend human rights and LGBT people in Honduras.
All people have the rights to life, security, and freedom from discrimination regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or political beliefs. IGLHRC condemns the systemic persecution and murder of LGBT people and human rights defenders in Honduras and calls for an end to the impunity that allows this violence and oppression to thrive.
Source: http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/takeaction/resourcecenter/1050.html
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