Honduran pro-Zelaya protester dies after shooting

Honduran pro-Zelaya protester dies after shooting
Sat Aug 1, 2009 12:07pm EDT

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A man shot during a protest in Honduras this week in support of ousted President Manuel Zelaya died of his injuries on Saturday, the second fatality in the aftermath of last month's coup.

Roger Vallejo, a teacher participating in a rally blocking a road leading out of the capital Tegucigalpa, died of a bullet wound to the head after two days in a hospital's intensive-care unit, two nurses at the hospital where he died said.

Soldiers and police in riot gear broke up Thursday's rally by hundreds of demonstrators calling for the return of Zelaya, ousted in a military coup last month.

A Reuters cameraman at the protest saw police using tear gas and bullets to disperse the protesters but the police involved said in a statement they did not fire the bullet that hit Vallejo.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5701J420090801?rpc=401&

Hoping his hopes for his country will be realized in the lifetime of his loved ones.

So damned sad.

Martin Rivera Barrientos.

He was returning home from the funeral wake for Roger Vallejo this morning (Sunday) when he was attacked by unknown persons. First reports from the teachers' union said he suffered up to 25 stab wounds.

This looks like a golpista attempt to intimidate the teachers, among the best organized in the resistance's struggle against the golpista regime.

Just like killing union workers in Colombia.

Teachers. That's a real blow to the people themselves beyond the mere inhumanity, as teachers are so well regarded as guardians of the future, helpers to everyone, people who pursue a more thoughtful approach to their lives than many others, people who bear a deep social consciousness, in many cases.

Looks as if the coup operators are daring the people to strike back at them now, in the hope they will be able to trigger a reaction, and then they can wade right into them with their soldiers and lay waste to crowds of people, and traumatize the rest into submission, and silence, as it has been known to work in other places, when it became commonly believed the military was simply too powerful, too strong to be resisted successfully.

This is horrifying news, made worse by the very fact this new martyr was actually mourning the death of a fellow martyr at the time he was murdered brutally.

Thanks for informing us, rabs. We need to know these things.

Another supporter of Zelaya killed in Honduras
2009-08-03 09:30:48

TEGUCIGALPA, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- A 45-year-old teacher, who was a supporter of Honduras's ousted President Manuel Zelaya, was killed in mysterious circumstances, his fellow Zelaya supporters told media on Sunday.

Martin Florencia Rivera was stabbed to death near his home on Saturday, after returning from the funeral of a 38-year-old high school teacher who died two days after being shot in the head while protesting the coup that ousted Zelaya.

A 16-year-old man was arrested at a bus station near Rivera's home after the killing. But according to Juan Barahona, a leader of the Anti-Coup Resistance Front, the death of Rivera was a result of a repression bid of the authorities.

Barahona said Rivera's murder was strikingly similar to that of Pedro Magdiel, another Zelaya supporter, who was stabbed on July 25, close to the border with Nicaragua, where Zelaya had been camping out preparing for his return to the nation.

Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said Rivera had been attacked as he was leaving his car outside his home between 1:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. local time.

Police had not yet find out the young man's motivation for the killing, Cerrato said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/03/content_11816367.htm

The family of the teacher has already discounted the labor union theory and said this was not a politically motivated killing. I think his family has much more credibility than Barahona who clearly has motivation to not be honest and use this as a political ruse.
http://www.laprensa.hn/Ediciones/2009/08/03/Noticias/Aclaran-que-crimen-de-maestro-fue-por-robo