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<p style="margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;" align="center"><em>From
Military Coup
de tat, to illegitimate government of force - Entering the year 2010</em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p>This week’s kidnapping, disappearance, torture and interrogation of
journalist Cesar Omar Silva by a street patrol with military training
confirms
the existence of a pattern of systematic violations of human rights
committed
by the same structure that violated the constitutional order on June
28, 2009. </p>
<p>This pattern is the responsibility of the “hard hand” of the coup
regime
that imposes state violence on a citizenry that resists through
popular, non
violent insurrection. </p>
<p>The related murders of Walter Tróchez and Edwin Renán Fajardo,
editor of
documentaries and reports produced by the journalist Silva for various
international media outlets, the sustained kidnappings and attacks on
the staff
of El Libertador and Radio Globo and in recent days against journalist
Rony
Martinez whose tires were slashed and has experienced constant
persecution by
unknown individuals as well as police, confirms that a death squad with
terrorist infrastructure is operating in the country with the knowledge
of the
Police and the Army. <span style=""> </span></p>
<p>In addition, the violent deaths of other members of the National
Popular
Resistance Front carried out in a selective manner by hit men in the
service of
the de facto regime, the pursuit, disappearance, torture and
interrogation of
independent journalists repeats the pattern of the decade 1980-1990
which left
a tragic legacy of dozens of political assassinations and hundreds of
forced
disappearances. <span style=""> </span></p>
<p>As in the “dirty war” years, today the people are organized in
Committees of
Imprisoned and Pursued and Political Exiles, Committees for the Defense
of
Life, Students for Freedom and the broad based National Popular
Resistance
Front which with great determination are pushing for the emergence of a
new
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<p>In response to this unstoppable mobilization on the part of the
population
the government of the National Party, which emerged from the coup,
offers
systematic violence as the only alternative for staying in power given
its
enormous social and political illegitimacy. </p>
<p>Today we enter the first hours of 2010 in an atmosphere of terror
with which
the coup regime – civilian and military, national and international –
intend to
silence the voices of millions of legitimate Honduran citizens who
reject the
use of violence as a means of coercing consent and governing the state.
</p>
<p>The Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared of
Honduras
(COFADEH), calls on the international community to keep its eyes on
this
Central American country and to declare maximun alert in terms of the
human
rights situation. </p>
<p>The economic, political and diplomatic isolation of the coup regime
and its successor
as of the 29th of November, reduce its ability to maneuver in the
civilized
world although it adds to the vulnerability of the population. </p>
<p>It is extremely urgent that multilateral organizations open
legations in
Honduras before the sham transfer of power on January 27<sup>th</sup>
and after
this date in order to coordinate efforts to save the lives of social
and
political leaders opposed to those who have seized power. <span
style=""> </span></p>
<p>Honduras is advancing at an accelerated pace, far from the
international
eye, towards a state of absolute defenselessness and requires
intervention. <span style=""> </span></p>
<p>The selective and systematic bleeding could reach the massive
proportions
which the submissive Honduran Cardinal projected in his unfortunate
national
radio and television program at the service of those responsible for
the
violence. </p>
<p>Today, we share the Plaza of the Disappeared with members of the
Committee
of Imprisoned and Pursued and Political Exiles, their families, friends
and
some of those who are currently pursued by the dictator. <span style=""> </span>For
them we demand fair trails and respect for
the due process of law, freedom for the four political prisoners in the
National Penitentiary and the return of over one hundred people who
have been
forced to leave Honduras to save their lives. </p>
<p>Without a popular Constituent Assembly, peace and tranquility are
not
possible; without a new Social Pact and minimal political consensus
governability
will not be possible. <span style=""> </span> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center">Freedom for political
prisoners</p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center">Impartial trails for
those who are
pursued by the dictatorship</p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center">Stop political persecution</p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><strong>FOR THE ACTS AND
FOR THOSE
RESPONSIBLE</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><strong>NO FORGETTING, NO
FORGIVENESS</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center">Committee of the Families
of the
Disappeared and Detained of Honduras </p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=""
lang="ES-NI">COFADEH, Tegucigalpa, </span>January<span style=""
lang="ES-NI"> 1, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=""
lang="ES-NI"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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