28 September 2010 | News | Human rights
Non Stop Violence
Murders of social activists continue in Honduras
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Since the coup d’état ended the democratic rule in Honduras on June 28, 2009, there have been many human rights violations in the country, including the murder of the people who resist the repression of the regime now lead by Porfirio Lobo.
In a recent communiqué, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) – which represents 176 million workers in 151 countries- reported the murder of the trade union leader Juana Bustillo, from the Workers Trade Union of the Honduran Institute of Social Security and also a member of the National Front of Popular Resistance.
The ITUC received information that Bustillo was killed in San Pedro Sula, after participating in a demonstration organized by the resistance on Setpember 15 where, according to the ITUC “the demonstrators were brutally repressed by the government”.
The ITUC is demanding Lobo’s administration to take urgent actions to investigate the murder and to stop the violence against trade unionists.
Meanwhile, the National Front of Resistance reported this week that Wilmer Alvarado, an activist of the resistance and member of the National Youth Forum and of the gay community of San Pedro Sula, was found beaten to death in his room.
His death, as well as Bustillo’s, add up to the deaths of many activists who have lost their lives in Honduras for advocating for the reinstatement of democracy in the country.
