[HNA] FIAN: Human Rights Situation in Bajo Aguán, Honduras

[Sofia JarrinT]

Report released by FIAN, May 2010

Concerned about human rights violations in the wake of agrarian conflict between landowners and farmers, FIAN Honduras has intensified its 
visits in situ to verify the allegations they often receive. The 
findings are dramatic. Poverty and violent actions that claim human 
lives have increased. In the Lower Aguán, this year alone, 10 people 
have been reported dead, there are reports of threats and direct 
intervention of repressive forces of the state against peasant leaders 
and popular organizations; both situations that are directly linked to 
the agrarian problem...

PDF available here (in Spanish):

http://hondurashumanrights.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/fian-human-rights-situation-in-bajo-aguan-honduras/