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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; page-break-before: always;" align="center"><b>Committee in Solidarity with the Honduran Resistance<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i>33 Harrison Ave.
Boston, MA 02111 – </i><a href="mailto:info@hondurasresists.org">info@hondurasresists.org</a><i>
– </i><span style=""><a href="http://www.hondurasresists.org/">www.hondurasresists.org</a></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i>(</i><i><span style="">617) 491-2876<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">January 18, 2010 – Martin Luther King Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We,
the undersigned organizations of workers, artists, intellectuals, veterans,
activists, lawyers, clergy, and community organizers, strongly condemn the
widespread human rights atrocities against the Honduran people, beginning with
the military coup on June 28</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">th</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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, Honduras’ leading human rights organization,
the coup regime has demonstrated a premeditated pattern of violent tactics with
which it aims to quell the resistance to the coup:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">•</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Mass detentions in subhuman
prison facilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">•</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The repression of assembly and
mobility by means of excessive force<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">•</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The establishment of curfews and
the suspension of constitutional guarantees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">•</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Rape and gang rape<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">•</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Targeted assassinations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">•</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">•</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Torture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">•</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Disappearance and kidnapping<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">•</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Psychological warfare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">•</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Impunity for the perpetrators of
these crimes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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 America’s 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=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">This
repression has disproportionately targeted marginalized 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><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">th</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">. Trochez’ murder is the sixteenth suffered by the LGBT
community since the overthrow of Zelaya.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">On
December 11</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">th</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">, the decapitated body of Santos Corrales Garcia appeared 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. Garcia’s 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=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Violence
against women has also escalated greatly. As written in the <i>Christian
Science Monitor</i>: “As of August, women’s groups in Honduras have documented
249 cases of violations of women’s human rights, including 23 cases of beatings
and sexual assault and seven gang rapes by police explicitly trying to “punish”
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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In
the face of all this, the regime held elections on November 29</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">th</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">, resulting in
the “victory” of Porfirio 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=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Signed,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">8th Day Center for Justice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Alliance for Global Justice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Americans Who Tell the Truth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Binghamton, New York-El Charcon Sister City Project<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Boston
Democratic Socialists of America<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Boston Liberation Health Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Boston May Day Coalition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">British Columbia Teachers’
Federation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Brooklyn For Peace<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Cambridge, MA-El Salvador Sister City Project<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Campaign for Labor Rights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Centro
Presente<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Chicago-Cinquera Sister Cities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Davis
Religious Community for Sanctuary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Democratic Socialists of
Central Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Doctors for Global Health<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Fredericton
Peace Coalition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Friends of Chilama- a US-El Salvador Sister City<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Georgia
Peace & Justice Coalition/Atlanta<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Grassroots International<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Greater Boston Stop the Wars
Coalition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Hondurans for Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">InterReligious Task Force
on Central America<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">La Voz de los de Abajo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Latin America Solidarity
Committee Aotearoa New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Latin
American Solidarity Organization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Maine Organic Farmers' and
Gardeners' Association<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Maryknoll Office for Global
Concerns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Mass Global Action<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">National Committee in
Solidarity with the Honduran People<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">National Lawyers
Guild<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Native Forest Network/Gulf
of Maine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Nicaragua Network<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Nonviolence International<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">NYU Law Students For Economic
Justice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Office of the
Americas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Other Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Polo Democratico
Alternativo-NYC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Proyecto Hondureño<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Rights Action<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">School of the Americas Watch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Social Justice Committee of
the U.U. Church of Nashua, NH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Somerville/Medford
United for Justice with Peace<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">SweatFree Communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">The Americas Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">The Network of US-El Salvador Sister Cities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">The Quixote Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Trade Justice New York Metro<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">U.S.
Labor Education in the Americas Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">United for Justice with
Peace, the Greater Boston coalition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">US Peace Council<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Venezuela Solidarity
Campaign<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Veterans For Peace, Chapter
9, Smedley Butler Brigade<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">Wellington Zapatista
Solidarity Committe, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>This statement was also signed by <b>Prof. Noam Chomsky,
Prof. Aviva Chomsky,</b> and Uruguayan writer <b>Eduardo Galeano</b>, in addition
to hundreds of concerned individuals.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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