DIRTY WAR TACTICS OF STATE TERRORISM INCREASE IN HONDURAS

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http://www.rightsaction.org/Alerts/Honduran_coup_alert42_080309.html

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1. Campesino shot to death in El Paraiso today

Farm worker Pedro Hernández.

Killed when soldiers of the Ninth Infantry Battalion opened fire in El Paraiso on a vehicle with several people in it.

Army spokesman Ramiro Archaga said the troops fired at the tires of the vehicle because it did not stop at a military checkpoint.

A neighbor of the victim said the soldiers fired indiscriminately against the passengers.

The vehicle showed six bullet impacts. The other passengers were not hit.

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Tegucigalpa, 03 Ago. ABN.- Un campesino fue asesinado este lunes en la localidad hondureña de El Paraiso por militares del noveno batallón de infantería.

El labriego Pedro Hernández perdió la vida cuando los efectivos abrieron fuego contra un vehículo que transportaba a varias personas en un retén cerca de la frontera con Nicaragua.

Según el vocero de las Fuerzas Armadas, Ramiro Archaga, dispararon contra las ruedas del auto por negarse a hacer el alto, sin embargo, una vecina de la víctima denunció que los militares arremetieron indiscriminadamente contra todos los pasajeros.

El vehículo sufrió seis impactos de bala, aunque las demás personas lograron salir ilesas, informó la agencia de noticias Prensa Latina.

http://www.abn.info.ve/noticia.php?articulo=193338&lee=16

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2. Just bad shots.

Ought to send them out for weapons training. If they were shooting at the tires, they had to miss by 4 feet.

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3. 62 people. No wonder they drove the international media out A.S.A.P.

A lot their dirty articles still claim there are only two! What's more, most people are too gullible or too lazy to look more closely, so they never know. Ignorance is bliss? Who wants to be an arrogant, ignorant right-winger?

Love this quote from the article:

Gloria Oqueli Gloria Oqueli, president of the Central American parliament, said:
"They are desperate because they will be defeated, because power will be taken from them by a people with no machete, with no gun, with no weapon."

Reminds one of that wonderful rally song, "Nos miedan....."

Returning later today to read the M.P.'s speech.

Thanks for this post.

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5. Note that with the G20 demonstrations, even the Guardian

was spouting the Government line until the videos surfaced.

Have you seen the movie "Terrorizing Dissent" Twin Cities Independent Media produced on the RNC protest policing? It is well worth watching.
Here is a link:

http://twincities.indymedia.org/2008/oct/terrorizing-dissent-election-cut

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4. Teachers killed in violent repression in Honduras

2009-08-04
Teachers killed in violent repression in Honduras

Escalating violence in Honduras against those protesting the military coup of 28 June has left two teachers dead: Roger Abraham Vallejo and Martín Florencio Rivera.

Education International condemns the increasingly violent response of the de facto government and its infringement of civil liberties, while calling again for a restoration of democratic order. Since 28 June, teacher unions in Honduras have been voicing for a return to democratic governance.

Reports from EI’s member organisations in the country, who together form the Federation of Teacher Organisations of Honduras (FOMH) and represent 52,000 teachers, outlines the details of ongoing repression by the army and the police.

Primary school teacher Roger Abraham Vallejo, a 38-year-old member of the union COPEMH, was shot in the head on 30 July during a demonstration. Another teacher, also member of the COPEMH, Martín Florencio Rivera, died after being stabbed 27 times when he left Vallejo’s wake. Saturnino Sanchez, president of another EI member organisation in the country, COLPROSUMAH, was severely beaten.

Rosario Avila, co-ordinator of the FOHM National Committee for Prevention of HIV and AIDS in Honduras, denounced the recent surge in violence:

“The repression is increasing. They have suppressed constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression, and freedom of movement.”

http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/show.php?id=1079&theme=rights&country=honduras