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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">DE FACTO REGIME
PREPARES REPRESSION LEADING UP TO ILLEGITIMATE ELECTIONS<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Committee of Detained and Disappeared of
Honduras
(COFADEH) expresses its concern to the national and international
community
regarding the deterioration of the human rights situation in Honduras
which is
deepening each day.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A new wave of violence includes death threats,
political
persecution, illegal detentions, tortures and the militarization of
sectors of
principal cities. <span style=""> </span>Of particular concern
is the incursion of vehicles without license plates, darkened windows,
driven
by heavily armed agents with hooded faces into neighborhoods identified
as
allied with the Resistance against the coup and self declared as “free
of
political propaganda.” <span style=""> </span>These actions
follow the creation of lists profiling leaders of the resistance
movement by
order of the military and police. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The overall environment that has been created is
one of
repression and uncertainty.<span style=""> </span>This was
reinforced by a statement issued on November 16, 2009 by the
Sub-Secretary of
the Service Networks of the Ministry of Public Health that orders the
preparation of a CONTINGENCY PLAN for provision of health services for
24 hours
per day from November 19<sup>th</sup> thru December 4<sup>th</sup>,
2009.<span style=""> </span>According to statement No. 1055-09-SSRDS,
the
plan must include: Anticipated Suspension of Activity without putting
the
health of patients at risk, Re-scheduling of Surgeries during these
dates and
supply of medicine and equipment necessary for the plan. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These measures appear to be related to the
conduction of the
illegal electoral process on November 29, which is proceeding in an
irregular
manner and reflects the militarization and para-militarization of the
country.<span style=""> </span>The military reserves have been
mobilized to support the 16,000 members of the armed forces and 14,000
police
already mobilized in the distribution of ballot boxes. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In departments in the western part of the country,
army
reserves distributed fliers to intimidate the population in resistance,
characterizing members of the resistance as irrational delinquents and
discrediting marches and protests as inhumane and uncivilized behavior.<span
style=""> </span>This activity parallels the “anti-communist”
campaigns of the 1980’s. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The military control advances and consolidates as
Michelleti
announces a “strategic departure” from the country between November 25<sup>th</sup>
and December 2, 2009. The security forces equip themselves with new
repressive
tools.<span style=""> </span>An armored vehicle has been added
to the Secretary of Security for dispersing protests. The anti-riot
units are
equipped with video cameras and high pressure water cannon and a
mechanism that
marks anyone who comes in contact with the water for 48 hours.<span
style=""> </span>The armed forces have begun conducting
selective checks along major roads in the country and departments in
the
Atlantic zone of the country have experienced military over flights. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">COFADEH communicates its concern to all Human
Rights
institutions and the international community regarding the safety of
social
activists who struggle for the reestablishment of democratic order. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">COFADEH asks the international community to be on
alert
regarding the human rights situation in Honduras and to demand that the
Honduran state guarantee the right to life and integrity of the
Honduran
population and foreigners living in the country. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">COFADEH, Tegucigalpa,
Honduras.<span style=""> </span>November 21, 2009<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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