<div class="gmail_quote"><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; ">Radio Globo is reporting now that there are at least 10 detained, shots have been fired, there are wounded and likely some deaths. </span><br>
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><pre>There are over 500 families in these two settlements.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">COFADEH
Urgent Alert:<span> </span>Police and military
repress peasants in Trujillo and Tocoa</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dec.
8, 2009 - A heavy contingent of military and police began
to violently remove peasant families occupying land in Trujillo and
Tocoa in
the department of Colón. This marks an avalanche against this social
movement
on the part of a justice system that colludes with elite power groups
and
underscores the need to re-found the country according to Bertha Oliva,
Coordinator of the Committee of Families of Detained and Disappeared in
Honduras, COFADEH. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Since
December, the peasant families have occupied over 600
thousand hectares of state land claimed by large landowners Miguel
Facussé,
René Morales and Reynaldo although they do not possess title to the
property. <span> </span>As of last, the communities were
informed that
military and police were preparing to launch a surprise operation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Oliva
added that what is happening to the peasants in Colón
is another example of how the elite power groups are utilizing the
judicial
system which they themselves have rigged, with devastating impacts on
the human
rights of the population. <br>
<br>
The removal began this morning at 7am.<span>
</span>Seven buses full of military and police forcibly removed
families
without presenting a legal order against the peasants who are occupying
the
lands of the large landowner René Morales, also where three peasant
cooperatives including San Esteban and Guanchías are located.<br>
<br>
Since last night peasant families were on red alert and held vigil
through the
night according to Adelina Castro, coordinator of the Frente Nacional
de
Resistencia in Tocoa, Colón.<br>
<br>
Acts of repression against peasant leaders includes criminal changes
for
usurpation of lands to actions that threaten their lives. <span> </span>Men in civilian clothing took photographs of
the leaders with the intention of creating profiles that can later be
used to
kill them as has happened to others who participate in the resistance
movement,
according to Castro. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">On
December 16th, four hooded men kidnapped Osman Alexis
Ulloa Flores and Mario René Ayala Hernández of the Unifed Peasant
Movement
of Aguán, MUCA.<span> </span>Members of the peasant
associations live in a constant state of anxiety due to the high level
of risk
involved in working the land that they depend on to confront the
poverty in
which they are submerged. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
pressure on these communities is directly related to the
power of large landowners in the zone such as Miguel Facussé, a
powerful
businessman with landholdings throughout Honduras but is unsatiated in
his
desire to accumulate more territory. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
The coordinador del Frente Nacional de Resistencia in Colón reports
that shots
have been heard in the area and the military has entered lands along
the Río
Aguán where the cooperatives are located.<span>
</span>A potential massacre is feared. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="ES-NI">COFADEH makes
an urgent call to international human rights organizations to take
actions of
solidarity with those affected by this action which occurs in the
context of
the cout de tat and a justice system which is compromised by powerufl
elite
groups that sponsor and participate in the violation of institutional
order in
the country. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Committee
of
Detained and Disappeared of Honduras, COFADEH </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Translated
by the Quixote Center</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
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