Honduras human rights lawyer who opposed private cities murdered
Honduras human rights lawyer who opposed private cities murdered
By Associated Press, Updated: Sunday, September 23, 12:35 PM
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A land rights group says famed Honduran human rights lawyer Antonio Trejo Cabrera has been shot to death while attending a wedding.
The Peasants Movement of the valley of Bajo Aguan says in a statement that Trejo was shot five times Sunday.
The lawyer had represented three lands rights groups in disputes between agrarian organizations and landowners. More than 60 people have been killed in such disputes over the past two years. Trejo had also helped prepare motions declaring unconstitutional a proposal to build three privately run cities with their own police, laws and tax systems.
Just hours before his murder, Trejo had participated in a televised debate in which he accused congressional leaders of using the private city projects to raise campaign funds.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/honduras-human-rights-lawyer-who-opposed-private-cities-murdered/2012/09/23/059ff77a-05a5-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_story.html
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Life is so cheap to selfish, greedy, hatefilled monsters like the ones who created this new filthy coup. and all its supporters.
They don't acknowledge the fact they themselves are the ones who are not needed, not the heroes who would protect the good people of the world from them.
They are too stupid to realize they are NOT going to win.They have chosen the filthiest path in the world.
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23.09.2012 | 20:58 |
Honduras: lawyer murdered human rights defender
Prominent human rights activist lawyer Antonio Trejo Cabrera was killed by gunmen in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras. Crimes against social activists and political union increased after the coup of 2009.
The lawyer was shot in the evening on Saturday in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, when he celebrated a civil wedding.
Cabrera Trejo was guardian of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan (MUCA), the agricultural organization that has waged battles against powerful landlords in the area Aguán Valley, in the northeastern department of Colón, adjacent to the Honduran Caribbean waters.
Cabrera Trejo represented at trial to three groups Aguán Valley farmers who managed to allocate them thousands of hectares of land that were owned by landlords as Miguel Facussé and René Morales.
The MUCA has spearheaded several grounding in the area and looking to other thousands of hectares of land planted with oil palm farm hands pass the detriment of powerful landowners and industrial companies.
More:
http://www.infonews.com/2012/09/23/mundo-39900-honduras-asesinaron-a-un-abogado-defensor-de-los-ddhh.php
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23/09/2012 - 4:28 pm
Murdered Honduran human rights lawyer
Tegucigalpa, Honduras. - Antonio Trejo Cabrera, a renowned human rights lawyer and Honduran defender of peasants in land conflicts in Tegucigalpa died Sunday after being shot dead hours earlier reported Peasant Movement Under Aguán Valley, north of country organization was represented by counsel.
Cabrera Trejo, 41, "was shot near the National Airport Toncontin" movement said in a statement, adding that the lawyer "was outside a church a wedding when he was attacked by men who inferred five gunshot wounds in different parts of the body, causing his death. "
The lawyer was responsible for the legal affairs of three peasant cooperatives Under Aguán Valley, San Isidro, La Trinidad, and The Awakening, center of a conflict over land between farmers' organizations and local landowners that has killed more than 60 people in the last two and half years between farmers, security guards palm companies operating in the area, police and journalists. This past July, Trejo got full legal regain control of the peasants on the San Isidro, La Trinidad and Awakening, previously held the landowners, Miguel Facussé, René Morales and Reinaldo Canales after a legal process initiated in 1998 .
Arrested Aug. 20, Trejo said that "in this country is what they say Miguel Facussé and René Morales."
Annie Bird, co-director of the Washington-based Organization and Toronto, Rights Action told The Associated Press that Trejo had to travel to Washington in October to participate in the hearings of the Commission on Human Rights on the issue of Lower Aguán as "responsible to cancel the title deeds of landowners on these farms. "
More:
http://www.provincia.com.mx/2012/09/asesinan-abogado-hondureno-de-derechos-humanos/
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