Google translation: 11 dead Suman conflict of lands in Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

11 dead Suman conflict of lands in Honduras
08/15/2011
At least 22 peasants and 13 guards were killed in armed clashes two years in attacks in the cultivation of African palm plantations in Aguán
AP

Tegucigalpa .- Police on Monday found the bodies of five people - three men and two women - bringing to 11 the number killed in a shootout on Sunday registered a land dispute in northern Honduras, reported authorities.

The five fatal victims found on Monday are in addition to six reported Sunday in a shootout on the farm Aguán Pass, about 400 kilometers north of Tegucigalpa, between about 300 farmers and 40 private guards of the farm. There were 12 wounded. Of the dead, four guards, according to reports.

The shooting occurred when the peasants armed with machetes and AK-47 tried to invade the lands owned by businessman Miguel Facussé, which prevented the guards.

"On Monday we found five more bodies of three men and two women,''he said at a news conference police spokesman, Deputy Commissioner Julio Benítez.

More:
http://eltiempo.com.ve/mundo/conflicto/suman-11-los-muertos-por-conflicto-de-tierras-en-honduras/29366

[Peace Patriot]

1. The Honduran police, military and government are not to be trusted in any account of

this conflict--nor the corporate press.

Just sayin'. I don't know what happened. I don't trust these sources, at all. Honduran security forces are totally capable of planting AK-47's on peasant farmers. They were "trained" at the same "U.S. Army School of the Americas" as the Colombian soldiers who murdered innocent youngsters and dressed up their bodies like FARC guerrillas, to up their "body count" and earn bonuses and promotions. Every item of this story may be false, except that dead bodies were found. And that includes items like the peasants "tried to invade the lands" which the article presents as fact, not someone's description. No quote, no attribution. That is highly suspicious in itself. Was the reporter an eye witness to this event? No. He/she is reporting something he/she was told, and is portraying it as true on the basis of that source's word alone, and without even a hint at the source (i.e., "local police authorities said") to be able to track back the lie, if it was a lie, and, of course, with no name attached to it.

I'll wait until we hear from reliable sources in Honduras to believe any of this--except that more peasant farmers have been killed. That I can believe.

[barackguy8245]

2. +1