The Return of the Thugs in Honduras (and Their American Apologists!)
- Payback time for questioning the Honduran coup and the shady November elections. Payback time, death squad style.
- The Bodies Are Still Piling Up in Honduras
- Informal Empire: The Case of Honduras
James Cavallaro, HumanRights.Change.org
Yesterday (March 9) , the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a statement denouncing a wave of attacks against those who resisted the June 2009 military coup d’etat. According to the Commission, this past month, a series of kidnappings, murders and sexual assaults have targeted leaders of the resistance movement. The hemisphere’s leading inter-governmental, human rights investigatory body wrote, “it appears that sons and daughters of leaders of the Resistance Front are being killed, kidnapped, attacked, and threatened as a strategy to silence the activists.”
What’s happening? Well, the evidence fairly clearly suggests this: now that international attention has turned away from Honduras, authoritarian politicians and their henchmen are crushing their opponents. Payback time for questioning the Honduran coup and the shady November elections. Payback time, death squad style.
Here is how the Commission described the three murders:
Related:
The Bodies Are Still Piling Up in Honduras, Joseph Shansky, CounterPunch in AlterNet
Now that the world has heard reports of a "clean and fair" election in November, the violence against activists protesting the coup has increased even faster than feared.
Informal Empire: The Case of Honduras, Jeff Nygaard, Nygaard Notes, #444
Somehow, the people who elect the leaders of the Empire must be brought to see all of this (dominating sovereign peoples, tolerating sponsoring coups, and punishing foreign leaders for charting an independent course) as right and just, or at least necessary. Does someone actually tell us to think this way? If not, how do we get such ideas?
