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Garifuna Woman Murdered in Honduras
August 8, 2006
The latest killing comes amid a wave of repression directed against the Garifuna community of San Juan Tela, which is resisting plans to build tourism projects on Garifuna ancestral lands in the Tela Bay area.
On the evening of Aug. 6, a group of masked men armed with AK-47 assault rifles forced 19-year-old Mirna Isabel Santos Thomas from her home in the Honduran Garifuna community of San Juan Tela, in the Caribbean coastal department of Atlantida. Santos' body was found the next morning along the road leading to Triunfo de la Cruz and La Ensenada, several kilometers away on the other side of the town of Tela. The latest killing comes amid a wave of repression directed against the Garifuna community of San Juan Tela, which is resisting plans to build tourism projects on Garifuna ancestral lands in the Tela Bay area.
Messages protesting the killing and demanding a thorough investigation and punishment of those responsible can be sent to the Honduran embassies in the US (embassy [at] hondurasemb.org) or Canada (embhonca [at] magma.ca); to the Honduran special prosecutor for ethnic groups, Jany del Cid Martinez (janydelcid [at] yahoo.es, fax +504-221-5620); and to the public prosecutor's office in Tela (fax +504-448-1758).Last edited on Friday April 13th, 2007 20:26 by defyfear
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