Death Squad Kills Teacher in Front of Students

[Andronex]

On March 23, at the same moment that a group of seven Honduran lawyers were presenting information to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in Washington D.C. concerning systematic human rights abuses being committed against the pacifist Honduran National Resistance Front (FNRP), a death squad comprised of heavily armed men wearing ski masks and civilian clothes, killed a prominent FNRP member, a teacher, in front of his high school students.

According to a communiqué issued by the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH):
“At 3 p.m. an unknown person was spotted in front of the San Jose del Pedregal High School. The unusual presence of a stranger caused concerns among students and thirty teachers who make up the staff of teachers who work at the school. Among the teachers was Professor of Social Science Jose Manuel Flores, who worked as teacher counselor.

Witnesses on the scene saw two pickups approach the rear of the school premises, apparently 2009 models, one green and white. Professor Manuel, as his friends called him, was in the back of the facility overseeing pupils, when the assassins found him. They passed the perimeter fence and fired their guns at close range. The teacher was on a balcony from which he fell, and they fired on him again from above. As they fled, the ski mask of one of the attackers became entangled in the razor coil over the fence which they had cut open to look for their victim. The teacher died instantly.”

The killing of a prominent teacher in front of his students and colleagues, in the middle of the day, a man who was active in the FNRP, participating in protests and publishing articles in alternative press, is a calculated act of repression designed to terrorize other Hondurans and to send a silencing message.

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[johan helge]

1. God, I hate those killers. (nt)

[bertman]

2. As we read this our government is approving of this type of action by its failure to demand

harsh actions against the illegal regime. This is the same old imperialist bullshit that's been going on for more than a century.

Calling President Obama. President Obama. Are you in the house, Mr. President? We need your help on this, Mr. President.

REC.