Cablegate: Honduran anticoup activist decapitated same day he was questioned by authorities.

[EFerrari]

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 TEGUCIGALPA 001295

SIPDIS

STATE FOR WHA/CEN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV KDEM PHUM HO
SUBJECT: SUSPICIOUS DEATHS OF SANTOS CORRALES AND WALTER
TROCHEZ

REF: TEGUCIGALPA 661

¶1. (U) Summary. Human rights groups allege that two recent
deaths were tied to the political crisis. The Committee for
the Defense of Human Rights (CODEH) reported that on December
11, Santos Corrales Garcia was found decapitated in Talanga,
however the Honduran FBI (DNIC) told an Embassy Employee on
December 14 that Corrales had been shot. CODEH alleges
Corrales had been killed for political reasons. Walter
Trochez, a gay rights activist, was shot on December 13 in
Tegucigalpa and died on the way to the hospital. The Center
for the Investigation and Promotion of Human Rights
(CIPRODEH) told Poloff they believed Trochez was killed for
his anti-coup political activities. End Summary.

December 11 death of Santos Corrales Garcia

http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/12/09TEGUCIGALPA1295.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Hugo Llorens, what a genius. He still isn't 100% sure they are political tortures/murders.

A prince of a man, that Llorens.

I remember hearing of Walter Trochez, yet it was not mentioned his tongue had been taken from his head, nor that his own father was an American citizen. What a pity that American citizenship didn't compel Llorens to bring some additional pressure to find, admit the monstrous murderers.

Thanks for the info. on os Corrales Garcia. What a wretched, wretched shame these good people died in the service of freedom for Honduran human beings temporarily imprisoned as a country by a truly evil, greedy, bloodthirsty, treacherous small oligarchy and its morally depraved torturers, and assassins.