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Coupists Want to Kill Me, Zelaya

Tegucigalpa - Honduran Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya slammed the existence of a plan by the de facto regime of assaulting the Brazilian embassy in this capital to capture and kill him.

"I warn international community there is a plan to capture and murder me, and forensic scientists are ready to say it was a suicide," Zelaya told Telesur chain.

The Honduran legitimate president, who was taken away forcibly by coup soldiers on June 28, returned by surprise to Tegucigalpa on Monday and is now along with his family at the Brazilian mission.

The regime of Roberto Micheletti ordered the army and police to repress and dislodge thousands of demonstrators who have rallied in the nearby area of the diplomatic headquarter to protect Zelaya.

Water, electricity and phone services were cut off in the zone where the embassy is located.

Gonzalez de Mello Mourao, chief of the Central America and Caribbean department at the Brazilian Foreign Affairs Ministry, denounced reprisals committed by the Honduran de facto regimen against his country's embassy in Tegucigalpa.

UN staff achieved to enter the mission in the last few hours to take food and water to the president, relatives and the people who accompany him.
 
 
 


 

 

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