Reply #1: Honduras: Campesinos Expelled Like 'Vermin'

[Judi Lynn]

Honduras: Campesinos Expelled Like 'Vermin'
Written by Giorgio Trucchi, Translated by Peter Lackowski
Wednesday, 15 December 2010 21:59

Soldiers and police armed to the teeth violently evict defenseless peasant families. The presence of human rights organizations and national and international journalists prevents, this time, a new blood bath in the Bajo Aguan.

The dawning of Thursday, December 9, brought terror to dozens of campesino families of the Bajo (Lower) Aguan River Valley. Several contingents of soldiers and police, armed to the teeth, evicted them without any judicial order, nor the presence of an administrative judge, from the settlement of Paso Aguan, on the left bank of the Aguan River.

The delegation of human rights organizations and national and international journalists arrived at the place just as the the repressive forces of the state were finishing their "work."

Dozens of troops, armed with M16 rifles and even with an M60 machine gun were forcing men, women, and children to abandon the place that they had recovered some months ago from the hands of Miguel Facusse, a wealthy landholder who grows oil palms.

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http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/2820-honduras-campesinos-expelled-like-vermin