Day 147 of HONDURAS COUP RESISTANCE – “THE FIX IS IN”

[Downwinder]

http://www.rightsaction.org/Alerts/Honduran_coup_resistance_day147_alert93__112109.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Oh, man, this is very, very VERY bad...

LETTER FROM HONDURAN ARMY
(unofficial translation, by Rights Action)

ARMED FORCES OF HONDURAS
FIRST COMMUNICATIONS BATTALION
Las Mesas, F.M.
October 22, 2009
Issue: Request

To: Senior Mayor, Local Authority Of Your Office

By means of this request, I speak to a distinguished person, wishing that the Divine Creator of the Universe blesses you and your family and that you continue being successful as an authentic leader of your municipality.

The purpose of this letter is to request your support with the following:

Names and telephone numbers of the leaders of the community that support the Democratic Civil Unity and that work jointly with the municipality for the goodness of the people.

Leaders, names and telephone numbers that support the resistance movement and that cause unrest in community projects.

Mr. Mayor, we need this information as soon as possible so that we can be prepared each day in order to strengthen our democratic system.

We await your response and communication. With appreciation,

Carlos Roberto Rivera Cardona
Captain of Communications
Leader of the RR.HH. Section (S-1)
EHO-2782
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(Comment by the Resistance...)

HONDURAN MILITARY ASKS FOR NAMES AND PHONE NUMBERS OF COMMUNITY LEADERS, IN ALL MUNICIPALITIES OF HONDURAS

On October 22, mayors and community leaders, in all municipalities in Honduras, received a letter from the Head of Human Resources, Chief of Communications, of the Honduran Armed Forces, asking for the names and phone numbers of community leaders that support the coup resistance movement and those that support the coup regime.

This means that the Honduran Army is asking that mayors, hugely important community leaders, become informants, or ‘orejas’ as they are known as, to hand over profiles of leaders that are organizing, resisting and speaking out against the illegal coup regime.

According to Mery Agurcia of COFADEH (Committee of the Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared) this information can be systemized by the military and “put in the hands of those that repress the population.”

Using local informants is not a new tactic of repression. Used for generations by repressive regimes throughout Latin America, having local informants is a way for the military to maintain a presence on a local level without physically having to be present in the community, is a way of frightening the population without being there.

As pro-democracy leader Juan Barahona describes, “This letter is a way for them to draw up profiles of leaders of the resistance movement. That is the same work they did in the 80s when they drew up profiles of leaders and then followed up by capturing, murdering, putting them in jail or disappearing them. But it’s the same.”

“The structure of repression is continuing intact and today we are returning to the past, history is repeating itself. The objective is to take out the resistance movement, physically.”

http://www.rightsaction.org/Alerts/Honduran_coup_resistance_day147_alert93__112109.html

[Peace Patriot]

2. This is much more than a "fix," Downwinder. It's basically a death threat!

And if you can change your subject line, you should. I went to Rights Action and read it. What we are looking at is DEATH THREAT from the military to the Resistance and anyone who tries to protect them. I have never read anything like it. I've reposted the text of the Honduran military's letter to the mayors as a separate thread, with the subject line: "Honduran military tells mayors to turn over names & addresses of all resistance leaders!" You need something like that.