Washington Denies US-Backed Honduran Government Kills Activists [View all]
Washington Denies US-Backed Honduran Government Kills
07:06 25.06.2016(updated 07:12 25.06.2016)
The United States has yet to admit that a Honduran right-wing regime brought to power as a result of a Washington-funded coup has a “kill list” to hunt down political activists, opposition figures and journalists in the Central American nation.
On Wednesday US State Department spokesperson John Kirby said, during a daily briefing, that there’s no “credible evidence” that Honduran activists’ “deaths (had been) ordered by the military.”
Media reports contradict Kirby’s statement. Citing a high-profile Honduran official, the Guardian reported earlier that the state military has a murder list of “dozens of social and environmental activists,” and is responsible for the death of Berta Cáceres, a native-rights activist killed in February.
The leftist government in Honduras was ousted in 2009, in a move facilitated by the US allocation of some $200 million to the new government, as well as providing training to elite military forces answerable only to the new regime.
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US State Department spokesman, John Kirby, former Rear Admiral, USN. [/center]
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