[HNA] Hondurans Denounce Return of Death Squads

[Brian O'Connell]

Hondurans 
Denounce Return of Death Squads

San Salvador, Oct 28 (Prensa Latina) 
Death squads have reappeared in 
Honduras since the June 28, 2009 military 
coup, and they are targeting 
teachers, human rights activist Berta Oliva 
charged in El Salvador.

  Paramilitary groups like CAM (Comando 
Álvarez Martínez) are behind 
the selective murders of Honduran opposition 
activists, and teachers 
are their main victims, Oliva said, quoted by Co 
Latino newspaper.

Human rights violations, persecution and selective 
assassinations are 
everyday occurrences, showing that the military coup 
"continues," she 
said.

Ten teachers have been murdered this year for 
their clear opposition 
to the current government, a continuation of the coup 
regime, said 
Oliva, general coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of 
Missing 
Detainees in Honduras.

Oliva made her comments at the 7th 
Herbert Anaya Sanabria 
International Human Rights Congress in the Salvadoran 
capital.

Fifty-six human rights activisits have been threatened by 
different 
armed groups, she said, urging the Organization of American States 
to 
urge the United States not to support the Honduran military while human 

rights violations continue.

Honduran rural leaders who attended the 
human rights congress, said a 
campaign of persecution was being carried out 
against them to deprive 
them of their rights to the land.

Matías 
Valle Cárdenas, vice presidnet of the United Campesino Movement 
of Aguán, in 
the department of Colon, said 16 of his comrades had been 
murdered in the 
last 6 months.



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