Honduras urged to investigate transgender killings

[Derechos]

The pressure group Human Rights Watch has called on the government of Honduras to investigate the murders of six transgender women.

The women were killed over the past two months.

The government has condemned the killings, but Human Rights Watch says it is failing to prosecute attacks on transgender people.

Murder rates in Honduras are the highest in Central America and are ten times higher than those in the US.

The director of the lesbian campaign group Red Lesbica, Indyra Mendoza, says the murders have shaken the entire lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in Honduras.

"We need legislative change and prevention programs to end discrimination in Honduras, because at the moment we are living our lives in hiding," she added.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. They are up to their fascist snouts in a little social cleansing, now they've got all the power,

and can command the Army to do anything they want to the people of Honduras.

In Colombia, the social cleansing they've been doing has involved, beyond all the leftists and human rights activists, teachers, compassionate clergy, journalists, indigenous, and African-Colombians, has been the gleeful murdering of beggars, street vendors, assorted single, older poor women, like alcoholics, and the occassional prostitute.

Gotta make the world a place fit for the finest fascist, and these clowns are out to make sure they get their perfect world.

Hey, fascist Hondurans, just kill everyone you think doesn't belong in your world, or rather, tell the Army peons to do it.

This is truly the ugliest vision of hell, and you don't have to die to see it. In fact, our tax dollars are sustaining it even as we post.

From the article:

Human Rights Watch says that the six transgender women who were killed over the past two months also appeared to have been tortured.

The pressure group says that in total, 34 members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community have been murdered in Honduras since May 2009.

Thank you, Derechos, for a look at the seldom mentioned truth of what has been happening in Honduras.

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