UN Human Rights Council: Honduras’ Golpistas Want to Play, Brazil and Argentina Say “Hell No”

"Jose Delmer Urbizo, Honduras’ (Junta) ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, denounced the calls for him to be barred from the U.N. hall and insisted that he would stay on.

“'This is a totally illegal action inspired by the (President Hugo) Chavez regime in Venezuela,' he told reporters. 'I will not abandon my post.'”**

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But it was Brazil's and Argentina's delegation's that lodged the protest! Indeed, Latin America has been unanimous in denouncing the Honduran coup.


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**(Note: The article is by Rotters, so of course they failed to note that this Honduran ambassador represents no one. Not one government in the world has recognized the Junta as the legitimate government of Honduras. Urbizo is NOT "Honduras' ambassador to the UN in Geneva." I put in the "Junta." Rotters put in the other parenthesis.)

Tuesday September 15, 2009
Honduras envoy says "ordered out" of U.N. rights body
By Robert Evans

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Honduran ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said on Monday he had been ordered out of the U.N. Human Rights Council after other Latin American countries said he represented an "illegal" regime.

After a day of confusion which stalled the start of the three-week session of the 47-nation Council, the envoy -- J-Delmer Urbizo -- left the hall declaring loudly in English and Spanish: "We will be back! Volveremos!"

The dramatic scenes came after Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Cuba insisted that Delmer Urbizo, who has served as ambassador in Geneva for the past three years, could not stay unless he was approved by ousted president Manuel Zelaya.

The Human Rights Council's Belgian president Alex Van Meuwen told the envoy he could not speak in response since Honduras is only an observer in the forum, and said he should leave while his credentials were checked.

"I was ordered out. They have put security guards on me to make sure I left," Delmer Urbizo told reporters as blue-shirted U.N. police stood alongside. "But we will be back, make no mistake, and these people will see what they have done."

More:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/9/15/worldupdates/2009-09-15T000720Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-424518-1&sec=Worldupdates

Delegation finds human rights violations across Honduras
Posted on August 27, 2009 by Dennis Sadowski

Hondurans participating in nonviolent demonstrations against the June 28 ouster of Manuel Zelaya as president of the poor Central American country are experiencing human rights violations — including intimidation, beatings and rape — by government security forces, a small delegation of Catholic religious leaders discovered during a recent fact-finding trip.

”We came away with a really deep concern about the level of repression, media control and serious human rights violations that are being perpetrated by official forces,” Marie Dennis, co-president of Pax Christi International, told Catholic News Service Aug. 26, a day after the four-member delegation of which she was a part returned to the U.S. following an eight-day visit.

“We heard a lot of stories about teachers and young people and people in all walks of life who have been caught in this backlash,” Dennis said.

Another delegation member, Jean Stokan, director of the Institute Justice Team of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, compared the current situation in Honduras to the one that existed during the height of El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s.

“People are afraid. There are horrific human rights abuses. None of this is getting reported because the reporters are getting beaten up,” Stokan told CNS.

More:
http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/delegation-finds-human-rights-violations-across-honduras/