Text Book State Terrorism in Honduras: Death Squad Kills Teacher in Front of Students

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Rights Action

Text Book State Terrorism in Honduras: Death Squad Kills Teacher in Front of Students
Written by Rights Action
Thursday, 25 March 2010 12:36

On March 23, at the same moment that a group of seven Honduran lawyers were presenting information to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in Washington D.C. concerning systematic human rights abuses being committed against the pacifist Honduran National Resistance Front (FNRP), a death squad comprised of heavily armed men wearing ski masks and civilian clothes, killed a prominent FNRP member, a teacher, in front of his high school students.

According to a communiqué issued by the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH):

“At 3 p.m. an unknown person was spotted in front of the San Jose del Pedregal High School. The unusual presence of a stranger caused concerns among students and thirty teachers who make up the staff of teachers who work at the school. Among the teachers was Professor of Social Science Jose Manuel Flores, who worked as teacher counselor.

Witnesses on the scene saw two pickups approach the rear of the school premises, apparently 2009 models, one green and white.

Professor Manuel, as his friends called him, was in the back of the facility overseeing pupils, when the assassins found him. They passed the perimeter fence and fired their guns at close range. The teacher was on a balcony from which he fell, and they fired on him again from above. As they fled, the ski mask of one of the attackers became entangled in the razor coil over the fence which they had cut open to look for their victim. The teacher died instantly.”



Read more: http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/2420-text-book-state-terrorism-in-honduras-death-squad-kills-teacher-in-front-of-students

[fascisthunter]

1. where are the anti-Chavistas? I thought they gave a shit about Human Rights

right wing liars

[boppers]

19. Chavez is the solution to all murderous thugs?

Hint: This is Honduras, not Venezuela.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Honduras: In the Face of the Wave of Selective Assassinations Perpetrated by the Regime

25.03.10
Honduras: In the Face of the Wave of Selective Assassinations Perpetrated by the Regime
by Vos el Soberano Collective

The Vos el Soberano Collective strongly condemns the wave of selective assassinations perpetrated by the regime, the most recent victims of which are compañeros José Manuel Flores, Francisco Castillo, José Antonio Cardoza, José Carías, and Nahun Palacios murdered over the last ten days.

Added to these are a wave of massacres and crimes, resulting from the regime's policies of "social cleansing" and re-accommodation of its criminal forces.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org.nyud.net:8090/2010/images/jose_manuel_flores.jpg

Professor José Manuel Flores

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org.nyud.net:8090/2010/images/francisco_castillo.jpg

Francisco Castillo
More:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/honduras250310.html

[Judi Lynn]

3. Honduran Professor Assassinated

Honduran Professor Assassinated

TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran professor Jose Manuel Flores, member of the anti-coup resistance movement was murdered at the school were he worked, it was informed Wednesday.

Flores, a prominent magisterial leader and founder of the Central American Socialist Party (PSOCA) was shot in the back when hooded individuals entered the school through the roof Jose del Pedregal, in the south of the capital.

"His coward murder is in line with a campaign of selective crimes against union and people leaders grouped in the National Front of Popular Resistance" denounced PSOCA in a communiqué.

The party accused the government of Porfirio Lobo of intimidating the professor and trying to stop the fight for better pay and working conditions in the sector.

According to social organizations, since the coup of June 28 in Honduras were reported about 4.200 human rights violation among then more than 130 murders against members of the resistance and about 3.000 arrests.

http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/march/25/centralamerica10032503.htm

[Hulk]

4. Cowards.

Such cowardly men. To walk into a school and shoot an unarmed person. Can you get any lower? Maybe killing babies or children would be a notch below.

Such cowards. How do they sleep at night? Certainly Satan's spawn.

[ck4829]

6. I really don't think you can go much lower than this

Get ski masks to protect your anonymity, run into a school full of kids, just to murder an unarmed man.

Even your average everyday coward would find this despicable.

[ck4829]

5. How valid is your ideology if it requires the murder of unarmed people?

K&R

[ro1942]

7. They are not socialist

so our Gov. supports these thugs

[Agony]

8. Now that SOS Clinton has announced the restoration of US aid and attention is elsewhere...

Same as it ever was.

[Agony]

11. from a Mar 4th AP article, statements by SOS Clinton

snip
Clinton said the Honduran government that took office in January was democratically elected, was reconciling the population split by last June's coup and deserved normal relations with countries that cut ties after the ouster of the former president.
. . .
"We think that Honduras has taken important and necessary steps that deserve the recognition and the normalization of relations," she told a news conference on the sidelines of a meeting of regional officials in Costa Rica
. . .
Clinton said she had notified Congress that more than $31 million in U.S. assistance suspended after the coup would be restored.
. . .
"We share the condemnation of the coup that occurred, but we think it is time to move forward and ensure that such disruptions of democracy do not and cannot happen in the future."
snip

Lets see if the SOS acknowledges these "disruptions of democracy"

[EFerrari]

9. Why are we funding a government that uses death squads in schools?

[LetsSaveAmerica]

10. This is your corp. tax dollar in action are you proud to be USA tax payers?

Why do the US government interests back the killers,
Like Salvador once again. Amazing as it may seem people like to think the actor Regan was good?
Good for Corporations. He wasn't good for my Salvadorian relatives.
Americans are just a bunch of sheep that,are complicate at some degree to let the news skip all the truth.
After Iraq,what does it take get you to pay attention?
Millions to the top .05%(Bail Out)?
Your law makers don't even write or read the laws they pass (lobbyist)?
Your president just backed the biggest give away to the Insurance company's? (Check all the health stock UP UP UP)

Another dead Latin American person who just wanted fair treatment for the masses? (Doesn't fit in to the top .05% American backed plan)

[Judi Lynn]

12. They've kept the public here ignorant of the evil massacres they have financed and supported

throughout the Americas, LetsSaveAmerica. So much of the sinning against humanity was done behind the backs of the U.S. Americans, with the indulgence and assistance of the U.S. corporate news media, long before the bloodbath in Guatemala in 1954 when Eisenhower destroyed President Jacobo Arbenz and demolished his elected government.

It's bad learning you have loved ones who were harmed by the filthy Reagan regime. That was unbearably cruel, vicious, hate-filled, extraordinarily barbaric, brutal, and dishonest. Since the public were deceived, no one even knew enough to protest, and it probably wouldn't have done any good if they had, since our war machine seems to be in charge of everything.

Thanks for your comments. It's great to hear from you, welcome to D.U. :hi:

[EFerrari]

18. Welcome to DU, LetsSaveAmerica, and visit the Latin America forum when you can.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=405

[boppers]

20. By complicate, did you mean complicit?

I live in Portland, Oregon, where the police do this every few months, but political reasons aren't the usual justification.

[Peace Patriot]

13. Oh, God, this is so terrible! And what makes it even more excruciatingly painful is that our own

government is complicit in it. I know this is just the "latest" atrocity by this hideous regime that Hillary Clinton and Jim DeMint installed over Hondurans but it is one of the worst--not only killing a teacher (other teachers have been killed as well) but also terrorizing and traumatizing children thus sending ripples of rage and fear throughout society and into the future. And for what crime did he die? Exercising his right of free speech, advocating for a constitutional assembly, seeking a better democracy, actively pursuing government "of, by and for" the people. I just despair when I think of our government's role in this hideous act, and all the others. This is "change we can believe in"? What a monstrous farce our democracy has become!

[rabs]

14. Repression continued today

Eleven members of the Resistance (all National University syndicate leaders) were thrown in prison today (Thursday) on charges of "sedition."

Their defense attorney, Jorge Lagos, said 16 union leaders had been rounded up and five were released under house arrest.

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TeleSUR _ Hace: 48 minutos
Alrededor de once dirigentes del Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (SitraUnah) también miembros del Frente de Resistencia del país, fueron encarcelados este jueves por autoridades judiciales del Gobierno sucesor del régimen de facto, tras ser acusados de "sedición".

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El Ministerio Público precisó que fueron 16 los sindicales que habían sido acusados por los delitos de sedición, usurpación, coacción en contra del Estado de Honduras. De estos, 11 fueron encarcelados y el resto quedó en libertad con medidas sustitutivas de prisión.

[Judi Lynn]

16. Absolutely no difference between the coup government and this Lobo government.

Horrifying. It sounds no different from the fascist coups elsewhere in Latin America. Same violence against the left, or suspected leftists, or anyone who dissents, or may dissent one day.

Thanks for the fresh information. We probably won't be seeing it in our corporate "news" media version.

[lonestarnot]

15. Hope the pigs rot in hell.

[Judi Lynn]

17. Can't happen soon enough. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

21. kick