Coup command
uses brutality against demonstrations in Honduras
Raimundo López
TEGUCIGALPA,
July 2 (PL).—Popular demonstrations against the coup
continued for the fifth successive day in Honduras,
demanding the restoration of democratic rule of law
and the return of President José Manuel Zelaya.
In this capital, several thousand demonstrators
came together in the early hours of the morning in
an area known as El Obelisco, in the vicinity of the
Army Central Command.
A similar demonstration was organized by the
Popular Resistance Front in San Pedro Sula, the
country’s second city and its industrial base, 250
kilometers north of Tegucigalpa.
Witness informed the National Commission for the
Disappeared that demonstrators were brutally evicted
from the city’s central park by troops armed with
assault rifles and by antiriot police. More than 300
people were detained by the armed forces, according
to information received by that organization.
Maritza Somoza, vice president of the Unified
Workers Federation in San Pedro Sula, stated that
comrades from the Federation had seen a convoy of
eight military trucks full of detainees.
