Honduras. More blood spilled in the Aguán, five deadly attacks against farmers in less than a week

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More blood spilled in the Aguán, five deadly attacks against farmers in less than a week

Article | October 6, 2011 - 1:13 a.m.
By Giorgio Trucchi

Under Aguán, Honduras. At 10.30 am on Wednesday (5 / 10), two directors of the settlement Aurora, members Unified Peasant Movement of Aguán (MUCA), Pedro Alfredo Matamoros Heder Jael Sanchez Bonilla and Cruz, were shot by unknown at the height of the San Isidro, Sinaloa, in Lower Aguán.

According to a first reconstruction of the events, the shot that hit the humanity of the two directors of MUCA, currently hospitalized in serious condition, came from the oil palm plantations in the San Isidro, landowner and farmer-owned Palma, Miguel Facussé Barjum.

The news came just as special rapporteur in Tegucigalpa United Nations for freedom of expression, Frank La Rue, spoke about the costante violation of freedom of expression and impunity in Honduras, as part of an important forum organized by organizations national and international human rights.

"Unfortunately what is happening in the Aguán, just at that moment when we are developing an activity that has a lot to do with freedom of expression, respect for human rights and life," Jonny said Rivas, director of MUCA.

Alfredo Rivas explained that Matamoros Pedro Bonilla received three bullet wounds, one of which entered his mouth with exit hole for the ear. Jael Sanchez Cruz Heder received two bullet wounds in the groin .- "vehicle is traveling in the San Isidro, which is permanently guarded by security guards Miguel Facussé, and from there fired into the vehicle. There is no doubt that they were attacked from one side of the road from the plantation. Pedro Matamoros is seriously injured and his life is in danger, "said Rivas.

For the manager of the operation Xatruch II MUCA driven by the regime of Porfirio Lobo is not only solving the serious agrarian conflict in the surrounding area Aguán Valley, but it is deepening.

In less than a week were three attacks on organized farmers that left two people killed (Carlos Humberto Martinez Fiallos and dill) and three seriously injured (Germain Castro, Pedro Alfredo Matamoros Jael Sanchez Bonilla and Cruz Heder), an attempt kidnapping (Marco Antonio Paredes) and a violent eviction (farm's consent).

"We've always said that militarization is not the solution because it adds to the paramilitary groups operating in the service of the landowners. The result is a sequel of attacks against the organized peasants. They want to undermine the stability and the development of peasant organizations, "he said Rivas.