Honduras police killed 152 over past two years: watchdog

Honduras police killed 152 over past two years: watchdog

By AFP 12 hours ago .

Honduran police killed 152 people over the past two years in various operations with no probes carried out into their use of lethal force, a violence watchdog told AFP Monday.

The issue of deadly police action is in the headlines in Honduras following press revelations of official documents that appear to show that a cabal of senior police officers took payoffs from a drug kingpin to murder a top anti-drugs official in 2009 and a government security adviser in 2011.

The scandal has galvanized Honduras to step up a purge of the police force.

"We have recorded 152 deaths in police operations in the last two years, 2014 and 2015, and there were no investigations as to whether the officers killed in self-defense, or if there was excessive use of force," the coordinator of the Violence Observatory at Honduras' National University, Migdonia Ayestas, said.

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