US senators urge Kerry to review Honduras' aid

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

US senators urge Kerry to review Honduras' aid
Associated Press
Posted on June 18, 2013 at 7:32 PM
Updated today at 8:33 PM

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — U.S. senators are urging Secretary of State John Kerry to order a review of aid for Honduras' police and military amid allegations of abuse and human rights violations.

The 21 senators want the State Department to provide Congress with a detailed report on whether the Honduran government is protecting freedom of expression, implementing the rule of law and investigating abuses allegedly involving police and soldiers, as required by the U.S.

In a letter sent to Kerry on Monday, the senators say they have, in their words, "serious questions regarding the State Department's certification that these conditions were met for Fiscal Year 2012."

The senators also say they are disappointed with the Honduran government's efforts to address corruption and criminality in the police force, which they call a disappointing failure.





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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Any aid needs to have human rights conditionality with teeth.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

2. Then we need to practice what we preach on human rights. We torture just like Islam Karimov

in Uzbekistan, Kim Jong Un of North Korea and Alexandr Lukashenko of Belarus. . .except we use different torture methods on our inmates, prisoners and "enemy combatants."

Karimov boils people in water with his police. We have our police beat and zap our citizens into unconsciousness with tasers.

Lukashenko uses his police to arbitrarily arrest and deny. We have "stop and frisk."

Kim uses forced labor gulags in subzero temperatures. We have Maricopa County's "Tent City" and forced labor Chain Gangs in 110+ degree heat.

Human rights? What a fucking joke.