Families fear no justice for victims as 31 die in Honduras post-election violence
Families fear no justice for victims as 31 die in Honduras post-election violence
US silent on alleged military police responsibility for deaths despite $114m aid to security forces, amid claims of ‘vote fraud’ by President Juan Orlando Hernández
Sarah Kinosian in San Pedro Sula
@skinosian
Tue 2 Jan ‘18 09.01 EST
Tinsel and colored lights still adorn many houses in Choloma, a gritty manufacturing town near the Caribbean coast of Honduras, but at the home of David Ramos there are no signs of the festive season.
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The contested results triggered the country’s worst political crisis in a decade and have led to the deaths of at least 30 people, according to the Committee for the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh), a human rights group.
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Amnesty International has accused the government of deploying “dangerous and illegal tactics to silence any dissenting voices”, while the United Nations and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have denounced torture of detainees in military installations and said they were “alarmed by the illegal and excessive use of force to disperse protests”.
But the US-backed government has rejected a request by the Organization of American States (OAS) to send a special delegate to investigate abuses.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/02/us-silent-as-honduras-protesters-killed-in-post-election-violence
LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141951489
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