Hondurans Denounce Return of Death Squads

By Estela McCollin
Prensa Latina
October 29, 2010

San Salvador

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Death squads have reappeared in Honduras since the June
28, 2009 military coup, and they are targeting
teachers, human rights activist Berta Oliva charged in
El Salvador.

Paramilitary groups like CAM (Comando Alvarez Martinez)
are behind the selective murders of Honduran opposition
activists, and teachers are their main victims, Oliva
said, quoted by Co Latino newspaper.

Human rights violations, persecution and selective
assassinations are everyday occurrences, showing that
the military coup "continues," she said.

Ten teachers have been murdered this year for their
clear opposition to the current government, a
continuation of the coup regime, said Oliva, general
coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of Missing
Detainees in Honduras.

Oliva made her comments at the 7th Herbert Anaya
Sanabria International Human Rights Congress in the
Salvadoran capital.

Fifty-six human rights activists have been threatened
by different armed groups, she said, urging the
Organization of American States to urge the United
States not to support the Honduran military while human
rights violations continue.

Honduran rural leaders who attended the human rights
congress, said a campaign of persecution was being
carried out against them to deprive them of their
rights to the land.

Mateias Valle Cardenas, vice president of the United
Campesino Movement of Aguen, in the department of
Colon, said 16 of his comrades had been murdered in the
last 6 months.

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