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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Letter Against the Human Rights Abuses
in Post-Coup Honduras</span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>We, the undersigned workers, artists,
& intellectuals, strongly condemn the widespread human rights atrocities
against the Honduran people, beginning with the military coup on June 28</span><sup><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>th</span></sup><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> of 2009. Reports
from human rights organizations emerge every day detailing
state repression, from rape to assassination, of members of the
non-violent resistance, whose aim is to restore constitutional order to their
country and foster the creation of a more just society.</span><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>These abuses by the Honduran state
violate nearly every article of the American Convention on Human Rights, to
which Honduras is a signatory, beginning with the rupture of constitutional
order and resulting in thousands of rights violations. As recognized by the
Interamerican Commission on Human Rights, and documented extensively by
COFADEH, HondurasÕ leading human rights organization, the coup regime has
demonstrated a premeditated pattern of tactics with which it aims to quell the
resistance to the coup:</span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Mass detentions in subhuman prison
facilities</span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-pagination:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The repression of assembly and mobility
by means of force</span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-pagination:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The establishment of curfews and the
suspension of constitutional guarantees</span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-pagination:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Rape and gang rape</span><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-pagination:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Targeted assassinations </span><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-pagination:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The censorship of media by means of
threatening and killing journalists, employing blackouts, confiscating
equipment, & the outright closure of anti-coup TV and Radio stations</span><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Torture</span><span style='font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Disappearance and kidnapping</span><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-pagination:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Psychological warfare </span><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Impunity for the perpetrators of these
crimes</span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Though these acts have been carried out
by the police and the armed forces, there has been an alarming increase in the
use of paramilitary personnel. The United Nations reported that some 40
ex-members of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia—Latin AmericaÕs
largest paramilitary outfit, & terrorist organization as designated by the
US State Department—had been employed by Honduran landowners. An
increasing number of assassinations and abductions have been carried out by
unidentified agents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>This repression has disproportionately
targeted marginalized, working class communities, such as indigenous,
campesino, & afro-Honduran groups. The LGBT community, for one, recently
lost one of its young leaders, Walter Trochez, 27, gunned down by masked assailants
on December 13</span><sup><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>th</span></sup><span style='font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>.
TrochezÕ murder is the sixteenth suffered by the LGBT community since the
overthrow of Zelaya.</span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>On December 11</span><sup><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>th</span></sup><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>, the body of Santos
Corrales Garcia appeared decapitated in a neighborhood outside of Tegucigalpa.
Garcia was a local leader of the non-violent resistance, and had been detained
six days earlier by heavily armed members of the National Criminal
Investigation Division. GarciaÕs body showed signs of torture, indicative of a
low-intensity campaign to create collective fear, according to human rights
advocate Andres Pavon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Violence against women has also escalated
greatly. As written in the <i>Christian Science Monitor</i>: ÒAs of August,
womenÕs groups in Honduras have documented 249 cases of violations of womenÕs
human rights, including 23 cases of beatings and sexual assault and seven gang
rapes by police explicitly trying to ÒpunishÓ women for their involvement in
demonstrations. The number of femicides – the violent murder of women
because they are women – has tripled since the coup, with 51 cases
reported during the month of July alone.Ó<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>In the face of all this, the regime
held elections on November 29</span><sup><span style='font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>th</span></sup><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>, resulting in the ÒvictoryÓ of Pepe Lobo of the National
Party. The sharp rise in brutality in the aftermath of the elections indicates
that this may have been the worst thing for the human rights situation in
Honduras, as powerful governments in the hemisphere—namely the United
States, Canada, and Colombia—have used the elections as an opportunity to
whitewash the coup. An ardent supporter of the overthrow of Zelaya, Lobo is
already pursuing a general amnesty for its perpetrators.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>For those governments that deal with
Honduras, particularly the United States, this must be considered unacceptable
and dealt with according to national and international law. The unwillingness
to condemn the military regime for its thousands of human rights abuses
demonstrates a capitulation to the coup, its repressive tactics, and its impact
on Honduran democracy and civil society. To remain silent here is to condone
the use of military repression against unarmed populations, and to encourage
its use in future instances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>It is the moral imperative of the
international community to demand the immediate end of the brutality in
Honduras, and that the human rights of all citizens, particularly those
involved in political activity, be respected without conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Signed,</span><span style='font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>National Committee in Solidarity with
the Honduran People</span></p>
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