Seven Peasant Activist Killed in Two Months in Honduras
Published: 15 February 2023
WRITTEN BY VINICIUS MADUREIRA
The U.N. human rights office in Honduras condemned the killing of a prominent peasant defender and his son in the violent province of Colón on Sunday, demanding a "prompt, impartial and exhaustive investigation" into the murder.
The U.N. human rights office in Honduras condemned the killing of a prominent peasant defender and his son in the violent province of Colón on Sunday, demanding a "prompt, impartial and exhaustive investigation" into the murder.
Santos Hipólito Rivas and his 15-years-old son Javier Rivas were shot as they riding a motorcycle in the town of Trujillo, the Honduran Agrarian Platform and the Coordination of Popular Organizations of Aguán region said.
Hipólito Rivas was a longtime supporter of the peasant and rural workers’ rights at the Aguán region on the Honduran Caribbean coast. The area is the center of a brutal conflict between peasant farmers who claim ownership of land based on a 1970 agrarian reform and large landowners who are trying to expand their properties based on a law from 1992.
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https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/17325-seven-peasant-activist-killed-in-two-months-in-honduras
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