Dick,
My response is that, that is because the US population doesn't understand
that the things whhich happen in other countries, are a result of US
policies and activities in those countries and, in turn, have a direct
result on the American people. When our politicians encourage the fears of
Americans of immigrants who enter our country, and order that children be
returned to the countries from which they came, they are ignoring the fact
that those children were attempting to escape death, and that they are
sending them back to possible death. The Honduran activits who have been
murdered, have been trying to better life for their countrymen and have been
making clear the connections between US policy and the misery inflicted on
their people. And if Americans truly understood the situation, they would
demand a change in American policy and they would welcome people into our
country who are escaping danger. But they hear none of this on TV, read none
of it in The NYT or the WSJ, nor do they hear it honestly debated by
presidential candidates.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Enough! Second COPINH member assassinated in
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Carl:
I conjecture that the election is of more importance to the majority of the
peoples of the United States.
R. E. (Dick) Driscoll, Sr.
On 3/19/2016 10:33 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
And to underscore how unconcerned our American Corporate Empire
leaders are, we hear far more about Donald Trump than we do of the
horrors being committed around the world.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/19/16, S. Kashdan <skashdan@xxxxxxx> <mailto:skashdan@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
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Subject: Enough! Second COPINH member assassinated in
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Enough! Second COPINH member assassinated in Honduras
March 15, 2016 COPINH Translated by Scott Campbell
The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of
Honduras
(COPINH) calls public attention to today's murder of our
companero Nelson
Garcia, from the Rio Chiquito community in the Cortes
Department, at the
hands of two unknown persons.
We regrettably inform you that companero Nelson Garcia was
murdered when he
arrived at his mother-in-law's house to have lunch, after
spending all
morning helping move the belongings of displaced families
from the Rio
Chiquito community.
The murder occurred in the midst of an eviction carried out
against the
community of Rio Chiquito in the Rio Lindo area, in the
Cortes Department,
during which approximately 100 police officers, 20 military
police
officers,
10 soldiers and several people from the DGIC (General
Criminal
Investigations Administration) invaded the territory
reclaimed by 150
families, on which more than 75 had built their houses with
the materials
and efforts at hand.
The eviction took place at noon today, using tractors and
heavy machinery
to
destroy the wood houses that the companeros and companeras
from COPINH had
lived in for almost two years, leaving them without a roof
over their
heads.
Similarly, they destroyed the community's garden and fields,
using tractors
to destroy the yucca, sugarcane, banana and small corn
fields, violating
all
kinds of rights. They even destroyed an artisanal oven and
killed chickens
belonging to the community.
The community of Rio Chiquito has protected its territory
since it was
first
donated to the women of the community. However, they have
been attacked by
the municipal authorities, especially by the former mayor,
who used three
front men in order to displace the companeros and companeras
and to sell
the
land. Companero Nelson Garcia was an active member of COPINH
in defense of
the right to housing, we remember him for his active
participation in the
process of reclaiming the land and establishing the
community of Rio
Chiquito. We lament this new death, 13 days after the vile
murder of our
General Coordinator, Berta Caceres.
The murder of our companero Nelson Garcia and the
displacement of the
community of Rio Chiquito add to the war against COPINH,
which seeks to do
away with its more than 22 years of advocacy, resistance and
building.
Today's attacks join the large number of threats, attacks,
murders,
intimidation and criminalization directed against COPINH.
Since the murder
of our companera Berta Caceres we have been subjected to a
large number of
incidents which demonstrate the complete lack of interest on
the part of
the
Honduran State to safeguard our lives and the work we carry
out. As well as
its disregard in implementing the preliminary injunctions
accorded us by
the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH). The
injunctions were
issued on March 6 and today, nine days later, they murdered
a companero.
How
is one supposed to trust the State's investigation if it is
criminally
harassing the coordinating body of our organization with the
statement that
it is investigating our supposed participation in the
murder, while it
doesn't
investigate the sources of the threats?
How is one supposed to believe that justice will be done in
the case of our
leader Berta when they won't implement the measures
necessary for the
protection of her family, and the daughters and companeros
of our companera
Berta have been chased by an armed man in the city of
Tegucigalpa during
meetings with the authorities? Since the day of Berta's
murder, the offices
of COPINH in La Esperanza have been monitored by unknown
persons,
intimidating those who are still resisting, following the
legacy of our
leader.
Similarly, the companeros and companeras of the community of
Rio Blanco
suffered attacks when they traveled to the city of
Tegucigalpa in order to
present their case to entities such as the Ministry of the
Interior and
representatives of the diplomats of the G16. In addition,
there was an
incident in which companeros from the community traveled to
Rio Gualcarque
and were attacked with shotgun fire by security guards from
the Agua Zarca
hydroelectric project that fortunately did not wound any
members of the
community. All these attacks form part of an extermination
plan against our
organization and we are calling for national and
international solidarity
in
order to fight against it.
We demand an end to the persecution, harassment and war
against COPINH.
We demand that the Honduran State respond to the death of
our companeros
and
companeras and for there to be no more impunity.
We demand justice for our companera Berta Caceres.
With the ancestral force of Lempira, Mota, Etempica, Berta,
our voices rise
up, full of life, justice and peace.
Berta lives, the struggle continues!!!
La Esperanza, Intibuca, Honduras. Issued on March 15, 2016.
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