School of the Americas Watch update on the democratic Honduran resistance

http://soaw.org/index.php

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- The people are resisting, beginning to take the streets, block the roads
- dozens of buses of people coming to the capital from other parts of the country
- over 10,000 people gathered yesterday in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa to protest the illegal military coup, and they were violently dispersed by the military, using tear gas and guns (not clear if rubber bullets or otherwise). More protests are planned for today.
- There are wounded and dead, but numbers are still unclear
- our friends in Honduras have been to hospitals and have documented some cases
- THE OFFICIAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND THE FISCAL (ATTORNEY GENERAL) ARE REFUSING TO DOCUMENT THE ABUSES, AND ARE SUPPORTING THE COUP GOVERNMENT. COFADEH ASKS THAT WE DENOUNCE THESE OFFICIALS AS NOT FULFILLING THEIR DUTY AS DEFENDERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. THEY ARE RAMON CUSTODIO, DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND SANDRA PONCE, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
- A new cabinet was named by the coup leaders, and they tried to bring them to be sworn in at the presidential palace, but lights were cut and phone lines downed, and this did not take place.
- Two army battalions have declared that they will not be loyal to the coup government
- A crew from TELESUR was detained and beaten, but released, after international public pressure
- Electricity is constantly being cut off, then comes again
- Censorship of the t.v. media, only channels of rightwing media being shown
- Coup govenrment is using well-known human rights abusers and their spokespersons
- Strike of schools and workers taking place

(But remember, the coup is ok because "the Congress and the Supreme Court ordered it".)