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Judi Lynn

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Thu Feb 14, 2013, 06:04 PM Feb 2013

No charges in Honduras prison fire

No charges in Honduras prison fire
February 14 2013 at 01:53pm
By ALBERTO ARCE

Juticalpa, Honduras -

On the 14th day of each month, Jesus Garcia joins other relatives to hoist a cardboard coffin and carry it in a macabre procession down a road to the prison where two cousins died with 360 other inmates in the worst prison fire in at least a century.

It's their way to demand justice in the deaths of Antonio and Franklin Garcia, who were among many left locked in their cells as fire raced through the wooden barracks on February 14, 2012, and the handful of guards on duty ran for their lives.

“We go to the jail, in a symbolic procession with a casket, to ask for justice, but we get no answers,” Garcia said. “We go to the minister of human rights and she passes it along to the president and he passes it along to the first lady, but then nothing gets done.”

A year after the fire in Comayagua, about 100 kilometres from Tegucigalpa, the investigation remains open and prosecutors have filed no charges. The burned cells and electrical system are still being repaired.

More:
http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/no-charges-in-honduras-prison-fire-1.1470359

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