Statement of concern regarding the beating of the director of Casa Alianza, Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

Statement of concern regarding the beating of the director of Casa Alianza, Honduras

16 May 2014


We express our deep concern regarding the brutal beating of José Guadalupe Ruela García, the director of Casa Alianza of Honduras, allegedly by members of the Honduran Military Police. According to the Coalition for the Rights of Children, in which Casa Alianza participates, on May 8th in Tegucigalpa, Mr. Ruela was beaten by members of the Military Police, detained and then released the next day.

Casa Alianza is a well-known humanitarian organization that advocates for homeless children in Central America and Mexico. The latest monthly report by Casa Alianza’s Honduras office, which Mr. Ruelas presented on April 23, noted that in the first three months of the new government’s tenure, 270 children and young people under 23 in the country have suffered violent deaths.

We urge the Honduran authorities to conduct a prompt, full and effective investigation of these events and to ensure the safety of Mr. Ruela.

We express our solidarity with Casa Alianza and urge that embassies and other members of the international community do the same.

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Alliance of Baptists

American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

American Friends Service Committee

Center for Constitutional Rights

Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CRLN)

Church World Service

Colombia Human Rights Committee

Conference of Major Superiors of Men

Friendship Office of the Americas

International Labor Rights Forum

Latin America Working Group (LAWG)

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns

Presbyterian Church (USA)

Sisters of Mercy of the Americas - Institute Justice Team

Solidarity Center United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries

Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

Witness for Peace

http://www.wola.org/news/statement_of_concern_regarding_the_beating_of_the_director_of_casa_alianza_honduras

[jwirr]

1. I would add my name to that list as a common citizen.

[Judi Lynn]

2. They appear to believe nothing on earth can stop them now the US backs them fully,

and is happy to send them boatloads of money from hard-working U.S. taxpayers.

In time, this is going to change. There are so many, MANY more people on earth than can really be controlled by a vicious small circle of manipulative, unscrupulous, amoral people, even with the bombs, crowd control tools, the prisons, torture devices, guns, more guns, weaponry not even imagined by the public, all the tools they bought themselves with the taxpayers' money they stole.