On April 30, Father Roy Bourgeois, along with a delegation of School of Americas Watch (SOAW), come to Honduras to see in situ the grave situation of human rights affecting the Central American country.
The visit, which will run until May 8, included meetings with members of the resistance, human rights groups, teachers, trade unionists, religious leaders and members of the former government of Zelaya. Among them, convened especially for the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, COFADEH.
human rights activists will be in Tegucigalpa, Bajo Grande Grass Aguán and field to meet the serious allegations of human rights violations continuing to occur in this country since the coup of June 2009. Just this weekend two peasant leaders were found beheaded in Lower Aguán, informed the president of the Federation por el Derecho a la Alimentación (FIAN-Honduras), Gilberto Ríos.
La delegación SOAW también contempla una visita a la base militar de Estados Unidos en Palmerola cuestionada por haber ayudado en el golpe de estado del 2009.
El sacerdote católico, Roy Bourgeois, fundador de SOAW, estará acompañado, entre otros, por la Coordinadora para América Latina de la organización, la socióloga, Lisa Sullivan. Juntos han visitado 18 países de la región haciendo conciencia en los gobiernos de lo nefasto que es seguir enviando militares latinoamericanos a la academia militar conocida como Escuela de las Américas.
Recordemos que el ex Jefe del Estado Mayor Conjunto de Honduras, Romeo Vasquez and the Air Force chief, General Luis Prince Suazo, were those who led the military coup in Honduras in June 2009, both were graduates of the School of the Americas in which military academy in 1996 were discovered as part torture manuals training.
According to public records released by the government of the United States until 2004, Honduras had been sent to this military to military 3566. A Pentagon document, dated May 2010, notes that this year were 73 new Honduran military to receive instruction there.
Murderers School
The School of the Americas was founded in 1946 by the U.S. Army and worked for nearly four decades in the Panama Canal. In 1984 he was expelled from the country by former President Jorge Illueca who said that the military academy was the largest military base for destabilization in Latin America. Since then operates in the State of Georgia, at Fort Benning, USA.
Amnesty International has said that the military institute should be closed until an investigation into human rights violations committed by their graduates in most countries of Latin America.
SOAW far has succeeded in Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay to withdraw its troops from the polémica institución militar hoy rebautizada con el nombre de Instituto de Cooperación y Seguridad de Hemisferio Occidental (Whinsec, su nombre en ingles).
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