Friday, April 30, 2010

HONDURAS: Return of the Death Squads As Oligarchs Target Members of the National Resistance http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/honduras-return-of-the-death-squads-as-oligarchs-target-members-of-the-national-resistance/

Since March 1, 13 members of the resistance movement have been gunned down. Paramilitary forces reminiscent of 1980s-style death squads are thought to be responsible.Since the coup last June, a number of union leaders have died under equally mysterious circumstances. Many Hondurans believe the military-backed government to be responsible for these assassinations. Of the 43 members of the FNRP that have been killed, about half have been trade unionists.

Gilda Batista, director of the Tegucigalpa-based human rights organization Refuge Without Limits (ASL), has investigated the murder of Zepeda and other recently executed union leaders. Batista says her research leads her to believe that assassination squads are being “financed by the corporatocracy and military.”

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