to accept the original election date, only 2 1/2 months away, with the liberal candidate mangled and stomped, with broken limbs, treated to a real beatdown by the coup's state police. Not a lot of prime campaign time left, considering the free style curfews the coup leaders call at the drop of a hat. They have been known to suspend an impromptu curfew long enough to allow some coup supporters, and their employees to go out and demonstrate.
They call impromtu curfews, leaving people only enough time to make a dead run for their houses, while the state police are welcome to run in and grab them, drag them out, beat them to a pulp, throw them in jail, charge protesters with treason, and even rush into hospitals and grab people they have earlier beaten senseless, drag them out and beat them all over again.
People are NOT safe inside their own homes.
There seems to be no other English language source than Agence France-Presse with this story. Remember there's hardly ANY news source working in Honduras now other than the pro-coup supporting media. Here's what appears to be a rewrite of the same story:
Coup amnesty off the table as Honduras talks pause
By Isabel Sanchez (AFP) – 6 hours ago
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Meanwhile, the creation of a joint cabinet and punishment of coup leaders remain dependent on Zelaya's return to the presidency, still far from certain four months into the standoff that emerged from the coup.
Union leader Juan Barahona, one of Zelaya's top three negotiators, told a rally of hundreds of the president's followers that the joint cabinet, if indeed formed, would be made up of ministers from both governments.
The Zelaya camp, he added, opposed amnesty because such a move would mean "amnesia, forgetfulness and forgiveness, and we cannot condone the coup.
"If after all of this, they say that there is not going to be reinstatement (of Zelaya), what difference does it make if we made progress on anything else?" quipped Barahona.
"Tuesday, we are going to get at that key point in detail. If on October 15 we do not have a deal, the talks will have failed."
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