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Judi Lynn

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Sat Nov 19, 2016, 03:59 AM Nov 2016

Berta Cceres murder: international lawyers launch new investigation

Berta Cáceres murder: international lawyers launch new investigation

Legal experts from US, Guatemala and Colombia in Honduras for inquiry after official investigation into environmentalist’s death raises concern

Nina Lakhani in Mexico City
Tuesday 15 November 2016 11.45 EST Last modified on Tuesday 15 November 2016 12.00 EST

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Five lawyers from the US, Guatemala and Colombia are in Honduras to try to uncover the intellectual authors behind the assassination of Cáceres and the attempted murder of her colleague the Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro.

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Five men have been arrested over Cáceres’s murder – including an active major in the armed forces and the head of security of the dam company Desa.

The expert group will investigate the state’s response to the crime, as well as the role played by corporations and international banks that backed the Agua Zarca dam.

The lawyers are Roxanna Marie Altholz from the University of California, Berkeley; Daniel R Saxon from Leiden University; Miguel Ángel Urbina Martínez, an expert in Latin American criminal law; and Colombians Jorge E Molano Rodríguez and Liliana María Uribe Tirado.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/15/berta-caceres-murder-honduras-international-investigation

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