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<p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are receiving
alarming reports from partners in Honduras.</span></b><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Emboldened
by the United States endorsement of the November 29th "elections," the
state terror apparatus in Honduras has ramped up its grisly repression.</b> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There has been a spike in
targeted murders and abductions following the November 29<sup>th</sup>
"electoral event" which was massively boycotted by the people of
Honduras. This escalation of human rights abuses is especially alarming
because the judicial system is on holiday until January 2nd. People
are terrified and are leaving the country.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Meanwhile, the U.S. State
Department
has "recognized the improved security situation in Honduras" and lifted
the U.S. travel alert for the country. </span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please call Secretary
Hillary
Clinton 202-647-5291 and register your alarm at the escalation of human
rights violations in Honduras. You can cite the following cases:</span></b></p>
<p><i><span style="">-Dec. 6<sup>th</sup> Death Squad style
killing of five members of the resistance movement in the Villanueva
neighborhood of Tegucigalpa. </span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="">-Dec. 11<sup>th</sup> Decapitated body
of
resistance member Santos Corrales Garcia was found dumped on the road
just outside of Tegucigalpa after being abducted by men wearing
National Criminal Investigation Directorate uniforms and armed with
machine guns. His body showed signs of torture.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="">-Dec. 12<sup>th</sup> Human rights
defender Walter
Trochez, member of the BGTL community and active member of the National
Resistance Front was murdered after having survived a previous
assassination attempt. </span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="">-Dec. 14<sup>th</sup> Death of
teacher/activist Karen Hernandez Mondragon after fatal shooting.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="">-Dec. 16<sup>th</sup> Murder of 16
year old Catherine Nicolle Rodriquez Cabrera, daughter of journalist
Karol Cabrera.. </span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="">-Dec. 17<sup>th</sup> Abduction of two
members of
the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan, MUCA in Sinaloa, Colón on
Wednesday morning by four hooded men. Eleven arrest warrants have been
issued for other members. 1000 peasant families occupying land in the
region have been threatened with forcible removal by security forces. </span></i></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thank you for
accompanying the
people of Honduras during this holiday time that is becoming a human
rights nightmare in Honduras. Call the State Department today and next
week.</span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are translating
reports of human rights violations and posting to <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quixote.org%2F">www.quixote.org</a>
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According to Bertha Oliva, Coordinator of COFADEH, statements by
dictator Micheletti accusing the resistance movement of committing the
murder of 16 year old Rodríguez Cabrera are a portent of more blood,
persecution and violence for the people of Honduras. On Wednesday, the
de facto President stated that “assassins of the Resistance” murdered
Nicolle Rodríguez Cabrera (16), daughter of journalist Karol Cabrera,
who works for the Channel 8 National Television Station of Honduras.
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In a press conference yesterday, COFADEH stated that Micheletti’s
statements come in the context of the massacre of people in different
part of the country, the murder of human rights defender Walter Tróchez
and Karen Jessenia Hernández Mondragón and the disappearance of Carlos
Roberto Turcios Maldonado, leader of the National Resistance Front as
well as the persecution and illegal detention of peasants from the
Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan (MUCA).
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Oliva warned that Micheletti’s accusations are the preamble to a new
escalation of repression against the media which has courageously
denounced the atrocities of the regime which include over 30 deaths,
hundreds of tortures, persecutions, threats and surveillance which
together form a strategy of terror intended to break the people’s
resistance against the coup de tat.
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COFADEH stated that Micheletti, Romeo Vásquez Velásquez and all of
their well known accomplices are responsible for the escalation of the
repression against members of the resistance and issued an urgent call
to international human rights organizations to take immediate action to
safeguard the lives of the people of Honduras.
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