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13.08.09
Honduras:
Attack on Peaceful Protestors Escalates
by Jenny Atlee, Quixote Center

The repression is escalating.  Crackdowns are occurring in San Pedro Sula as well as Tegucigalpa.

Micheletti decreta de nuevo
el toque de queda

Vergonzosa intimidación policial y militar en el STIBYS

Our delegation is accounted for and unharmed.  They are now accompanying Honduran human rights workers and sending alarming reports.  Police and military are rounding up people and taking them to places used for torture in the 1980s.  Ambulances full of people with their faces smashed in and bodies beaten are racing to hospitals -- among them is Marvin Ponce, a Honduran member of Congress who just met with State Department officials in Washington to denounce to coup.

The Universidad Pedagogica and the STIBYS [Brewery Workers'] union hall (a private building which has served as the organizing center for the Anti-Coup resistance front) have been taken by the military and large numbers of people are reported detained.  Human rights organizations fear they are being tortured.

Please call the State Department (202-647-4000) and the U.S. Ambassador Llorens in Tegucigalpa -- 011-504-236-9320 ext. # 4268.  Tell them that violence is escalating and that members of our International Delegation, including U.S. citizens, are currently accompanying human rights workers to locations in which people are being detained.

Jenny

The Quixote Center is a band of "impossible dreamers" who joined together in 1976.  We are a multi-issue, grassroots social justice organization with roots in the Catholic social justice tradition.  Independent of church and government structures, the Center operates with an understanding that an educated and engaged citizenry is essential to making social change.  For over 30 years, the Quixote Center has gathered together people of faith and conscience to organize highly effective campaigns for systemic change.
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