Genocide in Honduras, Says HHRR Defender
Tegucigalpa - Honduran Armed Forces
and Police are practicing collective
genocide, said a human rights defender in
the country, a month into the coup.
President of Honduras' Human Rights
Committee, Andres Pavon, told journalists
that faced with this reality, they lodged an
appeal on the grounds of unconstitutionality
against the curfew before the Supreme Court
of Justice.
We have come to file an appeal before the
Court so than the State of Honduras cannot
say later they were not aware of the
genocide of a collective nature the Armed
Forces and Police are carrying out, said the
lawyer. By imposing the curfew, the de facto
regime is violating over 22 articles of the
Constitution, including the right to food
and free movement, he added.
"The appeal filed before the Supreme Court
Constitutional Courtroom seeks to warn of
the holocaust that is taking place in El
Paraiso border town," he explained.
Hundreds of people remain in this locality,
6 miles from the Nicaraguan border, trying
to join President Zelaya, risking their
lives due to military repression, lack of
drinking water and food.
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