PBI-Honduras accompanies the Agrarian Platform at “mega-mobilization” at the Supreme Court of Justice
PBI-Honduras has posted: “From PBI we accompany the Agrarian Platform and the peasant, indigenous and Garifuna communities in the exercise of peaceful citizen mobilization, where they demand the vindication of their rights for the protection of the environment.”
The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) has also posted: “COPINH present at the action led by the Agrarian Platform of Bajo Aguán, demanding Justice for Juan López and Berta Cáceres, in the Supreme Court of Justice! Impunity in the case of Berta Cáceres implies the risk and continuation of murders against defenders of human rights and land in our country, as was the recent case of our colleague Juan López. Justice must prevail for Juan, for Berta, and for all people who fight to defend life and land! Confirm the sentences of Berta Cáceres’ murderers.”
Providing additional context, Avispa Midia notes:
“From the early hours of this Tuesday (24), hundreds of peasants belonging to 25 organizations from all over Honduras traveled to the capital, Tegucigalpa, to participate in what they called ‘mega-mobilization’ and whose days of protest will last for the next three days.
Among the participating organizations are the Agrarian Platform and the Coordinator of Popular Organizations of the Aguán (COPA), who demand the effective installation of the Tripartite Commission for the Resolution of the Conflict in Bajo Aguán, and an investigation into human rights violations in that region, in northern Honduras.
The demonstration began in the morning with the arrival of the peasants at the facilities of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) from where they announced the installation of a sit-in through which they demand the fulfillment of a series of demands, among which are access to land and an end to the criminalization of defenders of the territory.
Outside the CSJ, Yonny Rivas, spokesperson for the Agrarian Platform, underscored the demand of the peasant movement to declare unconstitutional Decree 93-2021 which, he accuses, criminalizes social protest.
In the [call/list of demands], released by the Agrarian Platform of the Aguán, the organizations addressed the CSJ magistrates by pointing out that, by ignoring the peasant demands, they demonstrate that ‘business, the security of families and friends, weigh more than justice, the rule of law and the public-collective welfare.’
The mass mobilization comes days after the murder of Juan López, a defender of the territory in the Bajo Aguán valley region of northern Honduras, who, despite having protection measures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), was gunned down on September 14 in the context of complaints against a mining company and politicians linked to organized crime.”
The full Avispa Midia article can be read at Organizaciones campesinas protestan masivamente en Honduras (September 24, 2024).
Photo by Avispa.
Hondudiario also reports: “Members of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), together with other social organizations, staged a sit-in on the ground floor of the National Congress (CN) and the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), demanding that justice be done in favor of the environmental leader, Juan López, who was murdered in Tocoa, Colón.”
Photo by Hondudiario.
And journalist Marcia Perdomo notes in Criterio.hn: “In a massive mobilization, peasant communities, indigenous people and human rights organizations took to the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) demanding the purging of the Judiciary, transparency and publicity of the plenary sessions in which the magistrates participate, and the reduction of impunity in cases involving land and territory defenders.”
That article adds: “The mobilization in front of the Supreme Court of Justice is part of the ‘Great Camp for the Democratization of the Land’, which was installed this Tuesday on the ground floor of the National Congress and will remain for three days.”
Photo by Criterio.hn.
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