Police Brutality in Honduras
04/12/11
Stephen Lendman
On June 28, 2009, a coordinated State Department-Pentagon project allied with Honduran military commanders and top opposition figures ousted President Manuel Zelaya, establishing the current fascist dictatorship, supported, armed, and funded by Washington.
In fact, all Honduran officers from captains on up are trained at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly the School of the Americas (SOA), popularly known as the "School of Assassins."
Established in 1946, SOA Watch calls it "a combat training school," teaching soldiers how to torture, repress, exterminate poor and indigenous people, overthrow democratically elected governments, assassinate targeted leaders, and suppress popular resistance when it erupts.
As a result, its graduates have "left a trail of blood and suffering in every country," sending recruits to learn the latest ways to brutalize, disappear, and massacre their people back home, including in Honduras.
More:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/04/22/Honduras-on-alert-to-track-down-al-Qaida-activists/UPI-58401303501752/~~~~~Honduras: Human rights defenders subjected to a campaign of attacks, threats, arrests and judicial harassment
Posted on 2011/04/05
Human rights defenders, trade unionists and journalists in Honduras are facing a wave of repression as the authorities crack down on ongoing protests in support of striking teachers' unions.
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Over the past several days, Front Line has received reports of widespread threats, attacks, arrests and ill-treatment against human rights defenders who have taken to the streets in order to peacefully demonstrate in solidarity with the teachers, who have been on strike for the past three weeks.
On 31 March 2011, members of the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Universidad Autónoma de Honduras – Sitraunah (Union of Workers of the Autonomous University of Honduras) were prevented from entering their headquarters at the National Autonomous University of Honduras after it was surrounded by police and military squads.
Previously, on 18 March 2011, human rights defender Mr René Andino Alvarenga, President of the Central Directive Board of Sitraunah received a message stating that assassins had been hired to kill him, along with Mr Donatilo Jimenez, President of Section 3 of Sitraunah, Professor Marco Antonio Moreno Fuentes, Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University and President of Section 1 of Sitraunah, and Mr Francisco Obando Torres, treasurer of the Central Directive Board of Sitraunah.
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http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/14817