The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted on social media:
“To mark International Day for the Right to the Truth, we highlight the concerns raised by @cofadehddhh [the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras -COFADEH] regarding the Honduran government’s cancellation of the Programme for Memory, Truth, Reparation, Justice and Non-Repetition, through Executive Decree PCM-004-2026. At PBI, we value the work of COFADEH in the search for #truth and #justice for the families of #disappeared persons in Honduras, and we recall that the right to truth, to #memory and to #reparation is also a human right.
#humanrights #honduras #righttotruth”
Defensores en Linea reports: “In La Merced Park, also known as Plaza de los Desaparecidos, relatives of victims and survivors of the application of the National Security Doctrine held a sit-in on Tuesday [March 24] in the framework of the National Day for the Right to Truth, Memory and Justice.”
That article adds: “In her speech, the general coordinator of Cofadeh, Berta Oliva, pointed out that this date represents a national and international day dedicated to memory, truth and justice. ‘We are in a meeting to remember the importance of memory and to educate those who want to forget or erase the past. The memory of the people is not eliminated by decrees, and those who think so are wasting their time. It is also a day of national outrage over abuses against the justice system and what we consider strengthens the democratic rule of law.’”
It also notes: “The day, which lasted three hours, was attended by representatives of the Union of Workers of the National Agrarian Institute (Sitraina), the College of Pedagogues of Honduras (Colpedagogosh), as well as survivors, relatives of victims of the 80s, friends and international defenders, among others.”
And CHTV Honduras reports: “COFADEH coordinators protest in the lower halls of the National Congress over abuses being committed against the entire apparatus that strengthens the Rule of Law in Honduras. According to Berta Oliva, Executive Director of COFADEH, she states that for many years impunity has been experienced in Honduras, which has made Honduras a totalitarian and failed state in matters of democracy and Human Rights.”
COFADEH
COFADEH posted on social media a video with this text: “The coordinator general of COFADEH Berta Oliva, pointed out during the platoon by heart truth and justice, that Today is a day of national outrage. Outrage at the abuses that are being committed against the justice system and against all the apparatus that should strengthen our democratic State. We can’t keep quiet.”
They also posted: “On the National Day for Truth, Memory and Justice: Berta Oliva reminds those who want to erase it, that memory is not erased by decree that the perpetrators are wrong, memory is the same people.”
We continue to follow this.
