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[Editor's Note: Thanks to Maggie von Vogt for this English translation]

URGENT:

At this moment partners from the Center for Investigation and Promotion of Human Rights, CIPRODEH, who are on a monitoring tour of the Eastern zone of the country, have communicated to us that the 76 people who were detained in the municipality Alauca are being moved to the Departmental Headquarters number 7 of Danlí to later be moved by bus to the city of Tegucigalpa.  In addition the people who were in the municipality of Ojo de Agua awaiting passage to arrive at the border are being (FORCEFULLY) moved in a cubicle to Tegucigalpa.  The plate number of the cubicle is PAA 8106.

We are alerting everyone on a nacional level and  also so that the international community can be watchful of the situation.

CIPRODEH

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URGENTE:

En estos momentos compañeros del Centro de Investigacion y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, CIPRODEH se encuentran en una gira de monitoreo en la zona oriental del país, nos han comunicado que las 76 personas que estaban detenidas en el municipio de Alauca están siendo trasladadas a la Jefatura Departamental No 7 de Danlí para luego ser trasladados en un bus a la ciudad de Tegucigalpa; además las personas que estaban en el municipio de Ojo de Agua esperando pasar para llegar a la frontera están siendo trasladados (A LA FUERZA) en un contenedor a la ciudad de Tegucigalpa, el numero de placa del contenedor es PAA 8106.

Alertamos a todos y todas a nivel nacional, así como a la comunidad internacional para estar pendientes de esta situación.

CIPRODEH

Getting Closer to the Crisis

This Sunday a forewarned coup d’état occurred in Honduras.  This was after Manuel Zelaya, went against all the relevant organisms (Congress, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, and Supreme Court) in following his project of the “Fourth ballot box”.  It was being promoted as a “non binding democratic poll” that would serve- according to him- to define if a fourth ballot box would be created for the November elections that would decide if The Constitution would be changed to “make it more flexible” and at the same time permit his continuance in the government.

During the days preceding the “Opinion Poll” Zelaya began to lose control, first dismissing the Chief of Armed Forces Romero Vazquez Velasquez for not complying with the order to logistically support his project.  This was later overturned by Congress.  No one was stopping his fourth ballot box.

On June 28th, the day that the election was planned for, Zelaya was expelled from the country before concluding the Congresses Special Investigations Commission.  The commission revealed that the previous Sunday, as they received the first results of the poll, that he would dissolve Congress and install a new Constitutional Assembly to change the Constitutional Articles 239, 240, 373, 374, 375 (Artículos Pétreos) and immediately “tie himself” to power.

Once out of the country, Zelaya played the role of international victim.  International media only heard his version without first investigating the real reasons for his dismissal:

1. Abuse of power in dismissing the Chief of Armed Forces

2.  Not presenting the 2009 annual budget, which had to be presented September 2008.

3.  Convoking a “poll”, the fourth ballot box, which was not approved by any relevant organism, such as the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

4.  Zelaya had already confronted all the powers of the state, his own party, and the Armed Forces, leaving the country under instable.

Citing Mario Campos, “It seems that the whole world is anxious that Manuel Zelaya goes back to power.  Everyone, minus Hondurans.”

Yozafath Norori – Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Armed Forces repress Hondurans upon showing their support for President Zelaya in his desire to enter Honduras

Three were injured and more than thirty detained on Friday during a large march that was bound for the border of Honduras and Nicaragua to receive the overthrown President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, according to the Center of Investigation and Promotion of Human Rights (CIPRODEH).

Despite the fact that the groups that renounce the coup and sympathize with President Zelaya mobilized peacefully, on at least two occasions the police and the Honduran army fired tear gas at a group of citizens that were protesting at a control point 17 kilometers from the border post in the department of El Paraíso, where the overthrown president ventured and in which a well-armed contingent of police formed a barrier.

According to testimonies spread by Radio Globo, at one of the sites where there were gunshots from the police, three protesters were injured, of which only one was attended to in the eastern regional hospital upon being grazed in the ear with a bullet.

The citizens that headed for the border ran into numerous military and police patrols and obstacles on the highways, placed in order to prevent them from arriving at the border with Nicaragua. Dozens of them have remained trapped on the road without being able to return to their homes because the police themselves are preventing them from doing so.

Another method the de facto goverment used in order to prevent the march and protests that would occur at the border was the decision to order an 18-hour curfew to begin Friday at midday in the eastern region of the country.

On Friday, the overthrown President Zeyala walked across the border and entered his country in a new attempt to recover the post that he was removed from more than a month ago after the military sent him into exile.

[Editor's Note: Original Spanish]

Cuerpo armado reprime a hondureños al solidarizarse con el Presidente Zelaya en su deseo de ingresar a Honduras

Unos tres heridos y más de treinta detenidos se produjeron en la numerosa marcha de personas que se dirigían este viernes hacia la frontera de Honduras con Nicaragua a recibir al derrocado Presidente Manuel Zelaya Rosales, según se informó al Centro de Investigación y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, CIPRODEH.

A pesar de lo pacifico en que se movilizaban los grupos que recriminan el golpe de Estado y los que simpatizan con el mandatario Zelaya, al menos en dos oportunidades la policía y ejército hondureño dispersaron con bombas lacrimógenas a un conjunto de ciudadanos que se manifestaban en un punto de control a unos 17 kilómetros del puesto fronterizo de el departamento de El Paraíso, por donde el presidente derrocado incursionó y en el cual un nutrido contingente de policías formó una barrera.

Según testimonios difundidos por radio Globo en uno de los sitios donde hubo disparos de fusil por parte de la policía se produjeron unos tres heridos entre los manifestantes, de los cuales solo uno se atendió en el hospital regional de oriente al ser rozado con un proyectil en la oreja.

Los ciudadanos que se enfilaban rumbo a la frontera se toparon con numerosos retenes militares y policiales y obstáculos en las carreteras para impedirles llegar hasta la frontera con Nicaragua, decenas de ellos han quedado atrapados en el camino sin poder regresar a sus hogares porque la misma policía se los impide.

Otra forma que utilizó el gobierno de facto para impedir la manifestación fue la decisión de decretar desde el viernes a mediodía un toque de queda de 18 horas solo para esa zona de occidente del país en previsión de las movilizaciones que ocurrieron en la frontera.

El presidente depuesto de Honduras Zelaya caminó el viernes a través de la línea fronteriza hasta ingresar a su país, en un nuevo intento de recuperar el cargo del que fue removido hace un mes después de que el ejército lo enviara al exilio.

PRESS RELEASE FROM CIVIL SOCIETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS OF HONDURAS

International Alert in favor of the Diplomatic Mission agents from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

The bellow signed organizations, worried by the accelerated worsening of the conditions of violations of human rights in Honduras as a consequence of the coup d’état that has instated a repressive regime since June 28, made worse by the defenselessness and politicization of state institutions who protect fundamental rights, and that today, July 24 has come to make vulnerable the personnel of the Diplomatic Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela accredited in our country; this is why we denounce:

1. That around mid day police forces posted themselves 20 meters from the residence of the Venezuelan Embassy at the hour determined by the de facto government that the agents of the diplomatic mission would have to abandon the country.

2.      That hours later a larger contingency of hooded police agents surrounded the residence of the Diplomatic Mission in an act that made evident the intention of the de facto government to carry out a forced expulsion, in clear violation of International Conventions of Diplomatic Relations, besides Human Rights treaties related to the inviolability of residence.

3.     That the Vienna Convention about Diplomatic Relations of 1961 establishes that the obligation to protect and respect the immunity of diplomatic agents; the inviolability of residence, places and files of them, even in the case of armed conflict or rupture of diplomatic relations.

4. That outside of the residence of the embassy of Venezuela there were hundreds of Hondurans that express their solidarity to the diplomatic mission, that is why we call attention to the risk that they face of any attack by the repressive bodies of the State.

5. That the OAS and United Nations have said about the conflict in Honduras that they do not recognize the de facto government, that is why we denounce that any action against the diplomatic agents and their residences would be illegal and a rupture or suspension of diplomatic relations only proceed from governments legitimately constituted and recognized by the international community.

For these reasons we demand an urgent international alert to protect life, personal integrity, the inviolability of residence and other rights, equally for the diplomatic agents that remain in their headquarters and the Hondurans that have resisted this.

Tegucigalpa, July 24, 2009.

Center for Prevention and Treatment of Victims of Torture and their Families

Center for Investigation and Promotion of Human Rights

Committee for the Defense of Human Rights

Center for Women’s Rights

Feminists in Resistance

Movement of Socialist Women “Dolores Caballero”

CLADEM-Honduras

[Editor's Note: Original Spanish]
COMUNICADO DE LAS ORGANIZACIONES  DE LA SOCIEDAD CIVIL Y DE DERECHOS
HUMANOS DE HONDURAS

Alerta Internacional a favor de los agentes de la Misión Diplomática de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela

Las Organizaciones abajo firmantes, preocupadas por el deterioro acelerado de la situación de violaciones a derechos humanos en Honduras como consecuencia del golpe de Estado que desde el 28 de junio ha instaurado un régimen represivo que se agrava por la indefensión y politización de las instituciones estatales de protección de los derechos fundamentales, y que el día de hoy 24 de julio ha llegado incluso a vulnerabilizar al personal de la Misión Diplomática de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela acreditada en nuestro país; por lo que Denunciamos:

1.      Que en horas del medio día efectivos policiales se apostaron a unos veinte metros de la Residencia de la Embajada de Venezuela a la hora que se venció el plazo establecido por el gobierno de facto para que los agentes de la misión diplomática abandonaran el país.

2.      Que horas más tarde un contingente mayor de agentes policiales encapuchados rondaron la Residencia de la Misión Diplomática en un acto que evidencia  la intención del gobierno de facto de realizar una expulsión forzada, en una clara violación a Convenios Internacionales sobre Relaciones Diplomáticas, además de tratados de Derechos Humanos relativos a inviolabilidad del domicilio.

3.      Que la Convención de Viena sobre Relaciones Diplomáticas de 1961 establece la obligación de proteger y respetar la inmunidad de los agentes diplomáticos; la inviolabilidad del domicilio, locales y archivos de las mismas, aún en caso de conflicto armado o ruptura de relaciones diplomáticas.

4.      Que afuera de la Residencia de la embajada de Venezuela se hayan cientos de hondureños/as que expresan su solidaridad a la misión diplomática, por lo que llamamos la atención del riesgo que viven ante cualquier ataque de los cuerpos represivos del Estado.

5.      Que la OEA y Naciones Unidas se han pronunciado sobre el conflicto en Honduras  no reconociendo al gobierno de facto, por lo que Denunciamos que cualquier acción contra los agentes diplomáticos y sus residencias sería ilegal pues la ruptura o suspensión de las relaciones diplomáticas solo emanan de gobiernos legítimamente constituidos y reconocidos por la comunidad internacional.

Por lo tanto demandamos una alerta internacional Urgente para proteger la vida, la integridad personal, la inviolabilidad del domicilio y demás derechos, tanto de los agentes diplomáticos que permanecen en su
Sede, como de los hondureños y hondureñas que se hallan resistiendo frente a la misma.

Tegucigalpa, 24 de julio de 2009.

Centro de Prevención y Tratamiento de las Victimas de la Tortura y sus
Familiares, CPTRT

Centro de Investigación y Promoción de Derechos Humanos, CIPRODEH

Comité para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, CODEH

Centro de Derechos de Mujeres, CDM

Feministas en Resistencia

Movimiento Mujeres Socialistas “Dolores Caballero”

CLADEM-Honduras

Colleagues:

Today, early in the morning, Ms Maria Marta Diaz was appointed to the INAM [Women National Institute] by the Military Coup regime as the minister of this institution. She entered the facilities with a group of riot police. Around 10AM, another riot police group (this time was bigger) came to the facilities when we, the women, were just by ourselves and our voices.

There were many tense moments, the first one was when one of the members of the riot police encouraged several employees to enter the facilities. We told them that we were occupying the building [as protest against the military coup] that it was not possible to enter. No one listen to the riot police call but but one woman: Antonieta Bustamente, the representative of Interamerican Comission of Women, did. We told her that we were not accepting nobody, not even visits, but she didn’t listen and she try to enter. The riot police beat two of our women colleagues and made a “cordon police” so that this woman could enter.

Later, around 11AM, the technical director of the Institute, a feminist colleague, answered a call from an unidentified number. They [the people who called her] told her that they knew that she had children, that they knew who were her children and that if she continued with that posture [against the Military Coup] her children will be in danger. Kenia started crying, she didn’t say anything, she was only crying. We asked her to explain to us what was going on. Crying, she confessed. Then we call the media that was around and she told them what happened. She did it to both, national and international media.

Around 12, our colleagues in resistance arrived: indigenous people, the OFRANEH (afro-descendents) who supported us in the pacific occupation. Because of it, more police riot groups arrived too.

Then around 1PM all the movement in resistance arrived, I don’t know how many thousands, and it caused even more repression. Two military trucks and then another bigger one (the kind of bunker-like), those that through water and that orange liquid, started to approach us and the people of the movement. Those were very intense moments, the military got on “attack position” and the soldiers that were behind [the building] shoot bullets, I guess they were rubber bullets because they sounded different, while on the front of the building, the contingent was marching towards us. Some of them started to through rocks but we tried to calm them.

We evacuated the building and everyone marched towards the Congress.

I came to write this, to charge the battery of my cellular phone and to download the pictures of my camera. We are with our colleague, the technical director of the INAM, to help her to denounce the threat to the tribunal, so that, at least, it is documented. She called her family to take care of her children, they were to a more secure place. I’ll tell you more about it later.

There is footage from TeleSur, from Le Monde Diplomatique, the Discovery Chanel, History (I can’t remember), there were a lot of more media around. Perhaps on Youtube there will be more information, many of us took some videos.

The people who is covering most of the repression are from Channel 36 of Honduras.

Greetings

[original Spanish]

Compañeras:

Hoy en la mañana muy temprano entrò al INAM la señora Maria Marta Dìaznombrada por el règimen defacto como ministra del INAM acuerpada por un grupo de policìas antimotines. Como a las 10 de las mañana llegò otro escuadròn mayor cuando solo nos encontràbamos nosotras, las mujeres con nuestras voces.

Hubieron varios momentos de tensiòn, el primero cuando la policìa antimotines saliò de las instalaciones y uno de ellos dijo a las empleadas que entraran. Nosotras les decìamos que era una toma y que no podìan entrar. Ninguna de ellas/os las/os que estaban ahì, contestò al llamado. Solo lo hizo una: la señora Antonieta Bustamante, representante de la Comisiòn Interamericana de Mujeres. Ella se acercò a nosotras e insistiò en entrar, le dijimos que no aceptàbamos ni siquiera visitas. Los antimotines hicieron un cordòn para que la señora entrara y golpearon a dos compañeras nuestras.

Posteriormente, como a las 11 del dìa la directora tècnica del INAM, compañera feminista, llamò una llamada de un telèfono desconocido (no aparecìa nùmero) y le dijeron que ella tenìa hijos, que sabìan quienes eran sus hijos y que si ella continuaba en esa postura (de oposiciòn) que sus hijos corrìan peligro. Ke`nia comenzò a llorar, no decìa nada, solo lloraba. Le insistimos que nos dijera que pasaba y llorando nos lo dijo. LLamamos a los medios que estaban ahì y ella relatò lo sucedido. Lo hico a medios nacionales e internacionales

Posteriormente como a las 12 del dìa llegaron compañeras en resistencia,los/as indìgenas y los/as de OFRANEH (afrodescendientes) quienes nos apoyaron en nuestra toma pacìfica. Eso hizo que vinieran màs antimotines.

Luego como a la 1 de la tarde llego el todo el movimiento de resistencia, no se cuantos miles, y eso desatò màs represiòn. Un contingente de antomotines en dos camiones militares y luego un camiòn, tipo bunker, de esos que lanzan agua y un lìquido anaranjado y fueron caminando hacia nosotras y los del movimiento. fueron momentos de tensiòn, los antimotines se pusieron en posiciòn de ataque, los que estaban por la parte detràs tiraron balas, supongo que de goma, porque sonaban diferente, y por la parte de frente caminaba el contingente hacia nosotras. algunos comenzaron a tirar ppiedras y tratabamos de calmar a la gente. Desalojamos el lugar y todos se fueron en la marcha hacia el congreso. Vine a escribir esto y a cargar mi celular y descargar mi càmara. Trajimos  ala directora tècnica del inam para llevar a poner la denuncia a la fiscalia, al menos para que quede documentada. Tambièn ella llamò a su  familia para saccar a sus hijos de su casa y llevarlos a un lugar seguro. les seguire contanto.

Hay tomas de telesur, andaban de le monde diplomatique, de discovery chanel,o de history, no recuerdo, andaban muchos mas. quiza màs tarde hayan cosas en you tube, de aca cubrieron varios, pero el que esta pasando màs la
represion son los del canal 36 de honduras

saludos

The radio program from the Center of Women Studies (”La Bullaranga”), which is broadcast from the same place as ours (”Time to Speak”), in this moment has been taken off the air, right after it started 5 minutes ago just when they were denouncing the censoring from the previous program. The same colleagues who were in “Time to Speak”, and its host Lídice Ortega, were interviewed when the interruption occured. Curiously, the radio station was in the air only when the 3 previous programs addressed the conflict from the point of view of religious groups (calling to “pray for Honduras”) and the supporters of the military coup.

[Original]

El programa radial del Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (la bullaranga), que se transmite en la misma emisora donde se transmite el nuestro (tiempo de hablar) fue sacado del aire en este momento, apenas 5 minutos después de comenzar, y cuando estaban denunciando la mordaza al programa anterior. En él se encontraban las mismas compañeras que estaban en Tiempo de Hablar, mas su conductora, Lídice Ortega, feminista del CEM-H. Casualmente, solo estuvo en el aire mientras estuvieron 3 programas que abordaron el mismo problema, una desde el punto de vista de los religiosos, llamando a orar por Honduras y dos desde el punto de vista de los golpistas

Friends of the World: We are receiving phone calls about the more than 200,000 protesters who are walking along the boulevard in front of the Tegucigalpa airport. The rally started this morning July 5th in a way to show support to the Constitutional President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales. Colleagues from the human rights offices in the area, have reported that about 4:35PM a burst of machine gun shootings were heard.The shooting was done against the people who were in the south part of the Toncontín airport. Two men died due to the machine gun of a soldier, one of the victims a 17 year old young man, who was born in Catacamas, the city were President Zelaya was born too. The other person died while he was transported, by the same organizations, to the School Hospital. There are several injured people, including children. Some soldiers in front of the march were collaborating with snipers (positioned on the buildings), who were shooting and throwing tear gas at the people in an indiscriminate way.

Soldiers took their attack positions in the airport´s runway to prevent the landing of the airplane that was transporting President Zelaya and a group of friends, including the Secretary General of the Organization of Americas State [Jose Miguel Insulza].

The broadcasting of the signal from the only local provider was interrupted by the national TV, to repeat the press conference of the illegal president, Roberto Micheletti. In fact, this was the morning broadcasting, transmitted with the solely purpose to try to hide, from Hondurans and the World, the repression against the people of the rally [Zelaya supporters]. We make a denunciation of this massacre to the World, action that needs to be repudiated. The governments committed with the strengthening  of democracy and human rights, must increase their mechanisms of pressure, so that the illegitimate government can be ceased. In this way, we will be walking on the path towards a democratic and peaceful process for our country, always remembering about the International Penal Court for all the crimes that had already happened. CIPRODEH.

[Editor's note: this is the original report en Espanol]

Amigos/as del mundo: Estamos recibiendo llamadas de los más de 200,000 mil manifestantes movilizados en todo el boulevard frente al aeropuerto de Tegucigalpa, que realizan desde esta mañana 5 de junio una manifestación pacífica para recibir al Presidente Constitucional José Manuel Zelaya Rosales. Colegas de oficinas de derechos humanos en la zona, nos reportan que a eso de las 4:35 de la tarde se comenzaron a escuchar ráfagas de ametralladoras contra las personas que estaban en la parte sur del aeropuerto Toncontín, dos hombres fallecieron por impactos de fusil militar, uno de ellos un joven de 17 años proveniente de la ciudad de Catacamas, ciudad natal del Presidente Zelaya, la otra persona falleció cuando era trasladado por las mismas organizaciones sociales al Hospital Escuela. Hay varios heridos, incluyendo niños y los militares apostados frente a la marcha en combinación con francotiradores en edificios adjuntos continúan arrojando gases lacrimógenos y disparando indiscriminadamente.

A la vez que se colocan en posición de ataque en la pista aeroportuaria para evitar que aterrice el avión que transporta al presidente Zelaya y su comitiva, que incluye al menos al Presidente de la Asamblea de la Organización de Naciones Unidas.

La transmisión del único medio local que registraba las imágenes fue interrumpida por una cadena nacional para epetir una conferencia de Prensa del Presidente de Facto Roberto Micheletti, que de hecho es una repetición de esta mañana y que se retransmite con el único propósito de ocultar a Honduras y al mundo la represión contra los manifestantes.  enunciamos al mundo esta masacre, que al ser cometida por un gobierno de facto debe ser repudiada, a la vez que los gobiernos comprometidos con el fortalecimiento de la democracia y los derechos humanos deben aumentar las edidas de presión para que cese el gobierno ilegalmente constituido y se allane el camino para volver al proceso de democratización y pacificación de nuestro país, sin descartar la posibilidad de denunciar ante la Corte Penal Internacional los crímenes cometidos. CIPRODEH

It was 8:00AM and we started to gather in front of the Morazán Pedagogic University (UPM), where citizens from different regions of Tegucigalpa and other parts of the country joined the peaceful well-organized march. At 10:00AM we started walking through the FFAA boulevard that goes towards the Toncontin Airport. Along the way, people joined the rally among songs and slogans that were asking for the restitution of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, but more than that, people were showing support to rescue the weak democracy that was so hard to achieve, and that now, has been stolen through a violent and brutal act by the most conservative and recalcitrant group on the country.

When we arrived we were close to 350,000 people. We were near centro america Perisur when we were stopped by a check point of the national police. They stopped us for a few minutes while the leaders of the peaceful march bargain with the police of commissioners. One of the [police] commissioners said that he was not to shoot against his people (nobody told me! I saw it and heard it, I was there!), so he ordered the police to retreat little by little while the march progressed until the entrance of the airport where the runways starts. He said that everything was ok as long as the protesters remain outside of the airport and didn’t try to get to the runway. In order, the peaceful march reached the planned spot to wait for the welcome President Manuel Zelaya Rosales whose arrival was announced to be around 4:00PM.

After we walked from the National University Francisco Morazán to the airport’s neighborhood, many of us sat facing the runway, while we were hearing from the speakers the latest news of what was happening. Then, we hear the announcement that in 20 minutes President Manuel Zelaya Rosales was about to be flying above the city and, most likely, landing on the airport. The people, full of joy and happiness, started clapping and yelling as a soccer team had scored a goal.

It was at that moment when we started to hear the shootings and we started to feel the effects of the tear gas bombs fired by the soldiers from the other side of the runway. Many of us, astonished by the reality, thought that they were just fireworks or fake bullets to disperse the rally. But then, just 4 meters from where we were (we naive protesters who thought that military had overcome the stage to shoot an unarmed people), one of our colleagues, just a 19 year old [Isis Obed Murillo], who was only protesting peacefully, fell to the ground with his skull wide open, leaving part of his brains on the asphalt. He died possibly due to a sniper who deliberately chose his victim being aware of the criminal act he was committing (who gave the order???). Then, close from where we were, another colleague was victim of the shooting coming from the military while he desperately tried to bring back to life an 18 year old who was intoxicated by the tear gas bombs or some other unknown chemicals used by the soldiers.

It was in this moment that the protesters react to this brutal aggression by throwing back the tear gas bombs, risking their lives and throwing everything that was on their way; rocks and sticks that are the only weapons the people can use to defend themselves.

A father carrying in his arms his 7 year old son, was running looking for an ambulance to safe his life.

These were the facts. Nobody told me. It doesn’t matter that the media, allies with this military coup. We, the citizens, will never agree to silence and to hide that thousands and thousands of people reject this savage and brutal act, like this one, perpetrated by the oligarchy against this country because: “THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS SET US FREE.”

–ALEX PALENCIA

If you feel comfortable please tell me your name and which city in
Honduras you are in.

I am a doctor, defender of human rights, and I
am in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Then doctor, can you speak to us about what has happened today with
the resistance and all the different groups?

In the first place, a march with over 20 thousand people was organized
in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.  There are also other
mobilizations, but the one that I was at was in Tegucigalpa.  This is
an extraordinarily strong march, with enthusiasm, and where it is
clearly visible that the people have a great commitment in
re-establishing constitutional order, and which manifests against the
military coup.

Can you tell us at what time this march began and how you participated?

Well, the march began at 8am and it ended around 1pm, the paths were
many…it began at the Park Loelito until it reached the
United Nations building.

As far as your eyes could see, tells us how many people were there?

Well, we are speaking of more than 25, 000 people.

How was the presence of police there?

Well in reality, we can say that in this moment there wasn’t
interference.  There were no confrontations with the police. The
number of people was enormous. We can say that the people have lost
their fear and have been manifesting in the streets.

Continued…

You were telling me that the people are not fearful.

No, definitely the people are not afraid. Really people condemn the
suspension of constitutional guarantees, defend constitutional order,
and are demanding the return of the president.

Tell me, what President Obama and other nations around the world did
by giving 72 hours to return the government is doing too little? What
do the people think of this? Is there a sense of mistrust?

No. The people are very sympathetic to the decisions of the
international community. They are very happy with President Obama’s
cohesion, by the decision of the OEA, with the decision of the
European economic community, the great international support the
re-establishment of the constitutional order has.  The people see it
as positive.  From the beginning other marches to protect the military
were formed, which are organized by the state, which do not have the
limitations or the difficulties that these marches have.

What will you do tomorrow? Will you continue to march? Will these
marches continue?

Tomorrow there is a march even bigger than this one.  The starting
point for this march will be close to the Pedagogic University. It
will be a more numerous march.

Bigger?

Bigger, yes.  I want to say that people are definitively determined.
It will be very difficult to control people, in regards to them
expressing themselves in any which way.   The people are greater [in
numbers] than the military.

So what the people want is that there government returns?

Yes, that the president is returned, that the constitutional
rights are returned, and that human rights are respected because there
are people that have been arrested, some hurt, right?

Have you seen people get hurt?

Well, of course, I am a doctor and have treated some of them.  I work
with a center for human rights.

What have you seen?

There are more than 70 people that have been arrested, but that’s all
of we know at this moment. We think that there are more people.

And this is the city of Tegucigalpa?

It is in Tegucigalpa and other places.  What you have to understand is
that we are in a military coup. There isn’t a flow of communication.
Of course. So how did you figure the number that you just shared with me?
It’s part of a greater number, and does not mean it’s the total
number.  It’s a figure that begins to track the number of arrested
people.

Who has tracked this number of arrested people?

I am talking to you from a human rights organization.

Of course. So your organization is responsible for these numbers?

Of course, we are called the Center Against Torture.

SPANISH VERSION

Si se siente a gusto, dígame su nombre y la ciudad donde está usted en Honduras.

Soy Medico, defensor de derechos humanos, y estoy en Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Entonces doctor, ¿Nos puede hablar un poco de lo que ha pasado hoy con
la resistencia y todos los diferentes grupos?

En primer lugar se organizó una marcha de más de 20 mil personas, en
Tegucigalpa y San Pedro Sula. Y también hay otras movilizaciones. Pero
la en que yo estuve fue el la de Tegucigalpa. Esta es una marcha
extraordinariamente fuerte, con entusiasmo, y donde se ve claramente
que el pueblo tiene un gran compromiso en la restablecimiento del
orden constitucional, y que se manifiesta contra el golpe militar.

Nos puede decir usted ¿A que horas comenzó esta marcha y como participó usted?

Bueno la marcha comienza a las 8 y terminó cerca de la 1 de la tarde.
Y el recorrido fueron varios … salió del parque
########Loelitco####### y llegó hasta el edificio de Naciones Unidas.

Y díganos usted, de lo que podía ver usted con sus ojos, ¿Cuanta gente
había allí?

Bueno, estamos hablando de más de 25,000 personas.

¿Y la policía cómo estaba allí?

Bueno en realidad, en este momento no hubo — podemos decir –
interferencia. No habían confrontaciones con la policía. Es que la
cantidad de gente era enorme. Es decir la gente ha perdido en miedo
han estado manifestándose en las calles.

Continued

Me estaba diciendo usted de que la gente ya no tiene miedo.

No, definitivamente la gente ya no tiene miedo.  Realmente la gente
condena la suspensión de las garantías constitucionales, defiende el
orden constitucional, y está exigiendo el retorno del Presidente.

Pero dígame un una manera no es un poco de lo que ha hecho el
Presidente Obama y las otras naciones del mundo, que le están dando 72
horas para rectorar el gobierno.  ¿Qué piensa la gente de esto? No hay
un sentido de desconfianza.

No.  La gente tiene mucha simpatía por las decisiones de la comunidad
internacional.  Está muy contenta con la cohesión del Presidente
Obama, por la decisión de la OEA, con la decisión de la comunidad
económica Europea, por todo los …  por el gran respaldo
internacional que tiene el re-establisamiento del orden
constitucional.  La gente lo ve positivo.  Desde luego se desarrollan
otras marchas que tienen la protección del ejército, que son
organizadas por el estado, que no tiene las limitaciones ni las
dificultades que tiene estas marchas.

¿Usted que va a hacer mañana? Van a seguir marchando?  Van a seguir
estas marchas?

Mañana hay otra marcha todavía más gigantesca.  Esta va a comenzar
cerca de la universidad Pedagógica.  Este es el punto de partida. Va a
ser una marcha mucho más numerosa.

¿Más grande?

Más grande, sí.  Quiero decirle que la gente definitivamente está
decidida.  Va a ser muy difícil que se pueda controlar la gente, en el
sentido de evitar que se exprese, con cualquier medida.  El pueblo es
más grande que un ejército.

¿Ósea que lo que quiere el pueblo es que retornen a su gobierno?

Si que hayan … que se vuelva a retornar el presidente, que retornen
los derechos constitucionales y que se respeten los derechos humanos
porque hay gente que ha sido presa, algunos que han sido heridos
¿verdad?

¿Y usted a visto que gente fue herida?

Bueno claro soy médico asistí a algunos de ellos.  Trabajo con un
centro de Derechos Humanos.

¿Qué es lo que vio usted?

Hay más de 70 personas la que están detenidas.  Pero eso es lo único
que sabemos nosotros en este momento.  Pensamos que todavía hay más
personas.

¿Y esto en la ciudad de Tegucigalpa?

Es in Tegucigalpa y en otros sitios.  Lo que pasa es que debe de
entender que estamos en un golpe de estado.  No hay una comunicación
fluida.

Claro.  Entonces este número que me acaba de dar, ¿cómo es que usted lo sabe?

Es parte pero no significa la totalidad. Es un dato que comienza a
registrar el número de personas detenidas.

¿Quién ha registrado este número de detenidos?

Le estoy hablando desde una organización de derechos humanos.

Claro.  Entonces ustedes están responsables por estos números.

Claro, somos, se llama el Centro Contra la Torture.

We are all aware of the critical situation that we are living in our country. The truth is that the majority of the people who are conscious and in favor of Democracy condemn the vile and cowardly coup d’etat caused by Roberto Michelletti, it being the only way that he could have arrived at the miximum magistrate of Honduras, because on the legal and democratic route, he would have died waiting.

Thank god he was able to flee from the police and sent out this notice to the population of what is happening in this country. I ask all the people who received this mail to resend it to all their networks, national and international, so that they know the truth of the situation in the country and not only the nice things that the communications outlets like TVC and the United Issuers (Emisoras Unidas) disseminate.

We ask the international institutions to please help us to restore calm in the country, Honduran society will thank you, because all of it, without exception, is fearful of what may happen; if they did what they did to President Manuel Zelaya, why can’t they do something to us as well.

Companions don’t let your arms be twisted, continue with this fight, because a united people will never be defeated.

(thanks to @NYkrinDC for the translation!)

By way of this message we inform you that starting at 12:00noon today we’ve been having  e-mail accounts blocked, above all those which are circulating information about the current situation in Honduras.  We ask that if this happens to you you can open other accounts and  send us the information in order to be able to send you information about what’s taking place.

CIPRODEH
Honduras

Nuestro contacto CIPRODEH, una Organización de Derechos Humanos en  Honduras, nos ha estado enviendo actualizaciones, estidios, y datos acerca de la situación de los derechos humanos en Honduras.  Recibimos el siguente mensaje hoy por la tarde:

Por medio de la presente les informamos que a partir de las 12:00 m. del día de hoy se nos han estado bloqueando cuentas de correo electrónico, sobretodo de aquellos en los que se está haciendo circular información sobre la actual situación de Honduras.  Les pedimos que si les sucede esto puedan abrir otras cuentas y enviarnos sus datos para poder enviarles información del acontecer.

CIPRODEH
Honduras

I’m from the municipality of Colinas in the Santa Bàrbara department.  The mayor of my town, Amable de Jesús Hernández, has been one of the best mayors in the country and is recognized in my town as the best that we’ve had.  I’ve known him since I was 12 years old as a person of christian principals who is very committed to his Church.  A year ago I worked in the Mayor’s Office and I am very familiar with his commitment to the poor and how he gives himself  for municipal development.  He supported the popular consultation and for that reason is one of the wanted mayors that has had to leave his town, along with his family, to seek protection.

All of those listed were afterwards released.

Please see the following links for a list of those detained and a prelimiary report on the human rights situation in Honduras.

-Aliveinhonduras.org

From my end, just a small recap of today’s events,  now that I’ve participated in a march.

Today two demonstrations were carried out, one in support of the Michelleti’s defacto government, about which I imagine you’ve already received sufficient information.

The other march, which demanded the return Mel Zelaya and was against the de facto government’s coup, was carried out without great incedent.  The people attending gathered in the area around the presidencial palace, blocking the flow of vehicles in the zone.  The figures could be between 2,000 and 3,000 people at the end of the march and the beginning of the rally.

The armed forces continue to be positioned in the presidencial palace, about 500 meters from the demonstrators, but in no moment did this generate tension.

The organizacions present included representatives from Garifuna communities, the Coordinator for Indigenous Peoples, Feminist and Women’s Organizations, Vía Campesina, the Democratic Union Political Party, Unions, and members of the Liberal Party, among others.

From another angle, people from the interior of the country continue to give reports of military interventions and constant human rights violations. The quantity of demonstrators against the coup diminished because in various points in the country the military forces have impeded the passing of buses transporting people from the interior who want to gather in the capital.

One gathered with the feminist organizations gave testimony of having been aprehended in the bus, and of having to finish her journey to Tegucigalpa by foot.  Likewise, another report indicates that the military fired upon various buses that came from the eastern zone of the country after having taken off passengers, thus impeding the continuation of their trip.

We have also been told that in different parts of the country the military is carrying out forced recruitment to include more people in the armed forces, and that they’ve also put members of the military forces in jail that did not want to present themselves at their posts today.

Generally, the violence has been removed towards the country’s interior, where it is more difficult to obtain confirmation about these accounts, and this obviously dimishes the number of people that attend the opposition marches.  In addition attendance has diminished due to brutal military and police repression during yesterday’s peaceful gathering.

On the other hand, the successes in the international community give us hope, but all of you probably know more about that at this moment, since I’ve spent the day in the streets.

Thank you.  For whatever need, I’m at your service.

Anonymous Informant in Tegucigalpa

In the disturbances, rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas were used,
and several protestors were taken to the Hospital School of Tegucigalpa to
be treated.

Inside the medical center installations, investigative police infiltrated
to try and obtain information about the wounded in an attempt to identify
them for later capture, an event that was repudiated by the representative
of the Democratic Unification party, Silvia Ayala, who has remained near
the presidential palace with around approximately 1,000 protestors.

“We denounce the cowardly attitude of the these elements of the army, who
used pepper spray on members of the resistance, including spraying pregnant
women in the face, which is prohibited by international conventions.” Ayala
said.

The repression is not over yet, even though the national police tried to
disperse the crowd with pepper spray inside hospital installations, where
several patients were reached by the effect of the gases.

Dear Sirs

This message is not only one of greeting, but also to denounce the following:

The General Management of  Globo Radio, denounce before you that, after the completion of the events that concluded with the deposition of president Manuel Zelaya Rosalaes, an intimidation campaign was initiated against the independent communications media, among them, this Radio Station, which was the object of an attack.

Since 6 in the morning when we arrived for work, the principal building, located in Morazon Boulevard, was militarized.  After a few negotiations, they allowed us to enter.

We began our informative work, within the parameters established by legal guidelines, and in accordance with freedom of expression and that what our consciences indicated.

The military made various attempts to get into the building where we transmitted to Honduras and the world what was really going in the country.  At six in the evening, a military squad made up of about sixty elements took the radio’s physical installations by force and took us off the air.  The coworkers that were still inside the establishment ( Alejandro Villatoro, owner, journalists Lidieth Díaz, Rony Martínez, and radio operators Franklin Mejía Orlando Villatoro) were subject to death threats, beatings, and intimidations.  Alejandro Villatoro is a substitute Deputy and they did not even respect such a position.

In my particular case, David Ellner Romero, there was a warrant out for my arrest but I was able to escape by throwing myself into the air off the third floor of the building that houses the radio.  Because of the impact (some 25 meters high),  I have a fractured shoulder, ribs, and other injuries.

Radio Operator Franklin Mejía, who is a minor, was beaten, and with a discriminatory attitude they screamed at him (”Black son of a … we’re going to kill you if you don’t tell us where you’re transmitting from,” and other insults that were derrogatory and dehumanizing).

Sirs: The goal of this attack was, and is, to silence the only radio station in Hoduras that was tramsitting the events just as they were being played out.  Currently, and after negotiations with the military, the radio reopened operations, but under a series of conditions that limit freedom of expression in the country.

It is under this conceptual framework that we turn to you to impose a formal denouncement, so that, within the authority that you have, you proceed to immediately perform an investigation of the case.

Alejandro Villatoro
Managing Owner
Globo Radio

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