Berta Caceres murder: seven convicted men sentenced to up to 54 years
Sentencing in environmental activist’s death comes more than a year after guilty verdict
Nina Lakhani
Mon 2 Dec 2019 18.25 ESTLast modified on Mon 2 Dec 2019 18.39 EST
The seven men found guilty of killing the Honduran indigenous environmentalist Berta Cáceres have been sentenced to 30 to 54 years.
Cáceres, a winner of the Goldman prize for environmental defenders, was shot dead late at night on 2 March 2016 – two days before her 45th birthday – after a long battle to stop construction of an internationally financed hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque River.
In November 2018, the court ruled the murder was ordered by executives of the Agua Zarca dam company, Desa, because of delays and financial losses linked to protests led by Cáceres.
On Monday, more than a year after the guilty verdict, the four paid hitmen – Elvin Rapalo, Edilson Duarte Meza, Óscar Torres, and Henry Javier Hernández – were each given 34 years for the murder. They were also sentenced to 16 years and four months for the attempted murder of Gustavo Castro, a Mexican environmentalist who was shot in the same attack but survived by playing dead.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/02/berta-caceres-murder-sentencing
If only the court will not be bought and will bring the executives Desa, the Zarca dam company to justice without fail. Of course they are as guilty for the murder.
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