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23rd July 2009, 06:35
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Excerpts from http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jul2009/hond-j20.shtml
While the Obama administration formally condemned the coup, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commissioned the mediation effort by Costa Rican President scar Ariasone observer compared it to the police demanding that a rape victim sit down and compromise with her rapist
Lanny Davis, who served as counsel to President Bill Clinton and is one of Hillary Clintons closest political supporters, emerged as a lobbyist for right-wing Honduran businessmen. Appearing before Congress, he declared that democracy and civil liberties are flourishing in Honduras.
A preliminary report issued by the Committee of the Families of the Disappeared and Detained in Honduras (COFADEH), the countrys leading human rights group, exposes the criminality of the Obama administrations policy and of the Democratic apologists for the coup like Davis.
COFADEH has documented 1055 human rights violations in the first two weeks since Zelayas overthrow. These include 1046 illegal detentions, 59 beatings, 16 threats, 27 assaults on reporters and attacks on the independent press, six serious injuries, and four executions. In each case, the victims of the attacks have been workers, peasant farmers and the press.
At the youths funeral, Obed Murillos father, David Murillo, described his son as a person who was self-educated in the principles of social rights, he knew that the powerful have exploited us and have trampled on our labor rights.
He never compromised his principles, said the father. His death, his leaving us, hurts me deeply, but I am proud that he did not die while committing a crime or out of drunkenness, but because he fought against repression.
Just days after the shooting death of his son, COFADEH took David Murillos testimony. The 57-year old man, who had done nothing wrong, was immediately arrested outside the COFADEH office.
Excerpts from http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jul2009/hond-j20.shtml
While the Obama administration formally condemned the coup, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commissioned the mediation effort by Costa Rican President scar Ariasone observer compared it to the police demanding that a rape victim sit down and compromise with her rapist
Lanny Davis, who served as counsel to President Bill Clinton and is one of Hillary Clintons closest political supporters, emerged as a lobbyist for right-wing Honduran businessmen. Appearing before Congress, he declared that democracy and civil liberties are flourishing in Honduras.
A preliminary report issued by the Committee of the Families of the Disappeared and Detained in Honduras (COFADEH), the countrys leading human rights group, exposes the criminality of the Obama administrations policy and of the Democratic apologists for the coup like Davis.
COFADEH has documented 1055 human rights violations in the first two weeks since Zelayas overthrow. These include 1046 illegal detentions, 59 beatings, 16 threats, 27 assaults on reporters and attacks on the independent press, six serious injuries, and four executions. In each case, the victims of the attacks have been workers, peasant farmers and the press.
At the youths funeral, Obed Murillos father, David Murillo, described his son as a person who was self-educated in the principles of social rights, he knew that the powerful have exploited us and have trampled on our labor rights.
He never compromised his principles, said the father. His death, his leaving us, hurts me deeply, but I am proud that he did not die while committing a crime or out of drunkenness, but because he fought against repression.
Just days after the shooting death of his son, COFADEH took David Murillos testimony. The 57-year old man, who had done nothing wrong, was immediately arrested outside the COFADEH office.