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One journalist killed and another
wounded by hired assassins in Honduras
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Confirmed by Andrés Pavón by phone
link to YVKE Mundial
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Murdered journalist is Gabriel Ciro
Noriega, from San Juan Pueblo municipality
Luigino Bracci and Patricia Rivas
GABRIEL Ciro Noriega, a journalist from San Juan
Pueblo, was killed on Friday night after leaving a
television program, according to Andrés Pavón
Murillo, president of the Human Rights Defense
Committee in Honduras.
He added that thugs strafed the Radio Sonaguera
broadcasting station in La Ceiba, Solaya
municipality, Colón department, with machine guns
and that another journalist, whose last name is
Montero, received serious bullet wounds. When he was
taken to hospital the hired killers followed to try
and finish him off, but he was removed elsewhere in
time for his protection. His state of health is
unknown.
Pavón also detailed the human rights situation in
the country since President Manuel Zelaya was
deposed on June 28. He said that more than 400
people had been detained, some have been released
and others held and charged with sedition and
material damage.
Since the coup was executed, five people have been
killed including the murdered journalist: a labor
leader run over by a military vehicle on Sunday and
a person who died of a heart attack brought on by
teargas. In addition, two people with heavy bruising
were taken to the morgue: one was killed in one
place and then left in a barrel, with severe
injuries but no gunshot wounds, and the other one –
according to witnesses – was dumped by a police
patrol in a place known as La Montañita on the
outskirts of Tegucigalpa, and then brought to the
morgue in a similar condition.
He stated that the civilian coup perpetrators are
controlling Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and La Ceiba,
but the rest of the country is under the exclusive
control of the military, who have usurped mayors,
judges and are taking direct decisions: “they have
control of all the rural areas, where they are
recruiting young people” for military service, in
violation of Honduran legislation.
Translated by Granma International
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