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Honduran activist Berta Caceres murdered inside her own home
(CNN) Berta Cáceres knew her work was dangerous.
After winning a prestigious international prize for her environmental activism last year, she said indigenous leaders like her were frequent targets. And often, she said, her country's government was to blame.
"In my organization alone," she told CNN en Español, "we have 10 people who've been killed with total impunity."
Nearly 10 months later, investigators found Cáceres shot dead inside the home where she lived in La Esperanza, Honduras, about 110 miles west of the country's capital of Tegucigalpa.
After winning a prestigious international prize for her environmental activism last year, she said indigenous leaders like her were frequent targets. And often, she said, her country's government was to blame.
"In my organization alone," she told CNN en Español, "we have 10 people who've been killed with total impunity."
Nearly 10 months later, investigators found Cáceres shot dead inside the home where she lived in La Esperanza, Honduras, about 110 miles west of the country's capital of Tegucigalpa.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/americas/honduras-activist-berta-caceres-killed/index.html
This is heartbreaking...RIP to an amazingly brave woman.
