[HNA] Fwd: [Presente-Honduras] two fast translations- Zelaya on the repression & Interamerican HR

Sat Mar 26 15:16:21 PDT 2011

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Subject: [Presente-Honduras] two fast translations- Zelaya on the repression
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  *Carta del Coordinador General en apoyo al magisterio*

Letter from the General Coordinator of the FNRP in Support of the Teachers

March 24, 2011

Compañeros y Compañeras

Honduran People

I write these lines to condemn the inhuman attacks against the teachers of
the nation. The attacks have as their only aim to  liquidate the teachers’
organizations and to break-up the social movements in Honduras; never before
has such a brutal plan been executed in our country using such premeditation
and advantage to sustain the privileges of a voracious and bloody elite.

We find ourselves facing nothing less than the execution of the third part
of the conspiracy that destroyed democracy with the Coup d’Etat of June 29,
2009, which consists of the appropriation at all costs of the country’s
natural resources to fill their pockets at the expense of millions of poor
people; the first mission towards this goal is to destroy the organized
sectors, beginning with the national teachers’ organizations.

 Submission to the International Monetary Fund agreements negotiated by the
regime, include the reduction of the wage base through firings,
restructuring and the dismantling of union organizations in the country. We
must not make any mistake about the true intentions of the repression which
is to break the will of the teachers’ struggle; when they show their
inflexibility and are spending millions of lempira on bombs and bullets with
the security forces, we cannot believe that they are only thinking about the
Teachers’ Law.

We must understand that they are not looping for Solutions for Honduras.  They
are only following instructions and are creating the system, the enclave
that includes the conditions for the privatization of health, Education, and
the other public services.

The payment required by the Teachers’ Law, if we fulfill it, is viable and
must be paid; the State can do so; I personally know the issue well, and I
have no doubt that this is not a question of a lack of government funds; it
is part of a plan that implies the disappearance of the professional
organizations of the teachers for other organized forms in the country that
favor their goals. This macabre strategy is directed at destabilizing all
the social organizations with conscience such as those of the teachers
nationally.

Compañeros to know their plan gives an advantage and allows us to join with
other sectors affected by the Coup d’etat. The destiny of Honduras, and
other countries in the region,  is at play in this struggle. The dimensions
of this issue require urgent attention because the level of repression shows
the desperation of the regime in the face of the strength of our ideas and
the truth that is with us.

Our mission is to support without reservation the teachers, the men and
women that struggle, so under no circumstances are the decrees against the
teachers upheld; and to demand their immediate derogation.

Compatriots this is the hour to give the best of ourselves. They are the
aggressors, those that behave with brutality, we can beat them; we can win
over them with the unity of the people and defeat the perfidy that those who
don’t love the Education of the people nor the mission of the teachers.

We continue in the struggle; comrade teachers: count on us; the Honduran
people support the teachers until victory.

* **José Manuel Zelaya Rosales
 Coordinador General
 Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular*

Honduras. Misión Internacional en Washington para entregar su informe
preliminar a la CIDH

*Violaciones en el Bajo Aguán trascienden a nivel internacional*

*Honduras**: International Mission in Washington to present preliminary
report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights*.

Violations in the Lower Aguan Moves to the International Level

Giorgio Trucchi<http://www.rebelion.org/mostrar.php?tipo=5&id=Giorgio%20Trucchi&inicio=0>

Rel-UITA

The grave violations against peasant families in the Lower Aguan and the
criminalization of their struggle for access to the land the right to a
decent live, now have risen to the International level.  Delegates of the
International Mission that last month investigated the situation of human
Rights in the Lower Aguan are in Washington, D.C., USA, to turn over their
preliminary report to the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights.

On March 25, the counselor for Honduras for the Commission, Felipe Gonzalez
will meet with the delegation from the International Mission*, of which
Rel-UITA is a part, to receive the preliminary report n the serious
violations of human Rights found Turing their stay in the Lower Aguan.

In the report, that consists of 48 pages, the severe crises of human Rights
affecting this regions of Honduras is evidenced; the principal elements are
the assassination of 23 campesinos, one journalist and his spouse, as well
as the ineffectiveness of the institutions charged with providing justice
and the total impunity that reigns in the area.

Furthermore, the delegates presented to the Commission the multiple
violations of the right to physical integrity, and cases of kidnapping and
torture, multiple injuries and sexual abuse. Also, it will emphasize the
systematic forced displacements of the campesino settlements which are
violations of the right to food, housing, health and which also flagrantly
violate the established standards of international law and due process.

Finally, the delegates of the International Mission will speak of the total
lack of  (government) fulfillment of the agreements signed with the
campesino organizations and the lack of fulfillment of the legal rulings
related to the agrarian arena, and the recommendations made by national
authorities and the international community, as well as the worrisome
climate of stigmatization and criminalization of the peasant struggle in
Lower Aguan.

“The presence of a delegation from the Mission in Washington is very
important. Achieving the placement of the theme of Lower Aguan on the agenda
of the Interamerican Human Rights Commission can be a fundamental element so
that other international organisms use the report and demand that the State
of Honduras comply with the them”, a leader from the Committee of Families
of the Disappeared Detainees in Honduras (COFADEH), Mary Agurcia, told
Sirel.

Honduras on the Agenda
The grave situation in which the country is living will also be debated
within the Framework of a Public Hearing by the Commission on Honduras.

During the hearing the case of the systematic criminalization of the
defenders of human Rights and the illegal firings of judges and magistrates
by the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras, as reprisals for denouncing the
coup d’Etat of June 2009 will also be discussed.

In this context, the delegates of the International Mission will have the
transcendental opportunity to present and explain the grave situation that
exists in Lower Aguan which gives even more important tot he presence of the
Mission in the U.S. capital.

Finally, the theme of Honduras and the violations of human rights was also
given prominence yesterday (March 24) during an informational meeting,
attended by his advisors and the general public,  in the office of the U.S.
Congressman, James McGovern.

*APRODEV (Association of Development Agencies linked to the World Council of
Churches); CIFCA (Copenhagen Initiative for Central American and Mexico);
FIAN International; FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights);
Rel-UITA (Latina American Region- International Union of the Workers in  Food,
Agriculture, Hotels, Restaurants, Tobacco and Procesing)

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