killing of Garífuna residents Joel Palacios Lino, age 24, and Elvis Armando Garcia, age 19, by Honduran Navy on Atlantic coast in Colón Dept.
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Honduras: News & Updates
Honduras did not experience civil war in the 1980s, but its geography (bordering El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua) made it a key location for US military operations: training Salvadoran soldiers, a base for Nicaraguan contras, military exercises for US troops. The notorious Honduran death squad Battalion 316 was created, funded and trained by the US. The state-sponsored terror resulted in the forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of approximately 200 people during the 1980s. Many more were abducted and tortured. The 2009 military coup d’etat spawned a resurgence of state repression against the civilian population that continues today.
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RRN Letter
January 23, 2016
RRN Letter
January 21, 2016
assassination of Javier Vásquez Benítez, son of an indigenous leader whose community is organizing resistance to the Los Encinos Dam in La Paz Department.
RRN Letter
December 14, 2015
attempted assassinations of land rights defenders on the Atlantic coast: Vidal Leiva (President of the Committee for the Defense of Land of the [Afro-descendant] Garífuna communities Crystals and Black River), Irma Lemus and Rigoberto Duran (Permanent Observatory of Human Rights of Aguán (OPDHA).
News Article
December 10, 2015
Our German volunteer Sophie Fruechtenicht wrote this article for the blog of her volunteer program Action Reconciliation Service for Peace.
RRN Letter
November 21, 2015
attempted assassination of journalist Dina Meza after months of threats and people surveilling outside her home
RRN Letter
October 15, 2015
assassination of two LGBT rights advocates and members of Association for a Better Life (APUVIMEH) (Gloria Carolina Hernández Vásquez and Jorge Alberto Castillo) and patterns of intimidation by police against other APUVIMEH members (Sandra Zambrano, Cristian Daniel Cortes Sagastume, Silvio Gerardo Artola, Carlos Alberto Cardona Varela)
RRN Letter
October 11, 2015
silencing of journalist Julio Ernesto Alvarado who is unjustly banned from working by order of the Honduran Supreme Court
RRN Letter
September 24, 2015
assassination of three LGBT rights advocates (Violeta R., Angy Ferreira, Juan Carlos Cruz Andara), threats against six, and attacks on four over the past five months.
RRN Letter
September 11, 2015
death threats and tampering with vehicle of Elizabeth Zúñiga, journalist working with SITRAUNAH (Union of Workers of the National Autonomous University of Honduras)
RRN Letter
August 14, 2015
surveillance, intimidation and harassment of Reina Lilian Rodriguez, Southern Regional Delegate of the National Human Rights Commission (CONADEH) and her team
