Tegucigalpa on December 13 2010. Diversity in Resistance Movement (MDR) today commemorated the first year since the assassination of human rights defender Walter Trochez, which happened Dec. 13, 2009, at the hands of groups cleaning and prophylaxis State social, headed at that time by the dictator and de facto president Roberto Michelleti Bath. In a statement, recalled that the MDR Trochez had been "tortured and murdered, and that this murder represents an irretrievable loss for the strength to fight for human rights in Honduras and the Latin American region. His comrades describe
Trochez as a leader and a pillar in achieving better living conditions for groups that suffer great social exclusion based on their gender, their poverty, their sexual condition, their HIV status and age.
The MDR
ensures it will continue "the struggle for recognition of the essence of the crime but also other types of political assassinations, crimes that the government de facto successor of the illegitimate coup Porfirio Lobo aspire to leave with impunity, claiming that it was only "crimes of common delinquency", by Honduras in the largest wave of inequality, state violence and impunity of the two decades.
The movement calls on the international community to remain constantly vigilant about the situation of violence state that exists in Honduras, "for the disappearances and killings stop, and other courageous people in opposition to repressive and illegitimate government does not suffer the consequences of Comrade Walter Trochez.
In the statement the MDR rejected categorically the interference that the U.S. has historically been on Honduras and the Latin American factor in maintaining the differences between rich and poor, and in the proliferation of armed groups and state law enforcement entities in the model "democratic .
they condemn in their efforts to roll back the popular movement struggling against inequality, these armed groups "fighting, murdering, torturing and youth, indigenous, Afro-descendants, peasants, women, students, artists, teachers, workers, and courageous members of the community Gay-Lesbian-Trans Latin America, demonstrated by the emblematic case of Walter Trochez.
They also rejected the shameful role of the so- called "truth commission" media phenomenon created with the advice Lobbyists Americans, to hide the events of the coup against the legitimate president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, 28 June 2009, and has undermined the weak pillars of Honduran democracy.
They denounce the coup triggered indiscriminate persecution against leaders and community members "Gay-Lesbian-Trans, factor in the disappearances, torture and murder of 39 members of this community since June 28.
members of the movement, who declare a permanent resistance, have shown they will fight until the convening of a National Constituent Assembly, and "the restoration of constitutional order, violated since the coup, which led to the establishment of an open state repressor, criminal and moving towards the establishment of a military dictatorship -entrepreneurial and clerical ".
In the statement they repudiate" colombinization "of the country, established by agreements of cooperation" government "in terms of national security, between the Colombian government and the" successor of the coup d State and illegitimate government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa .
They claim that these agreements are established with the aim of eradicating the opposition social movements disarticulate civilians, denying human rights and establish a permanent state of exception, to afford to harass, intimidate, torture and kill men and women who struggle every day to recover Honduras criminal hands of the army, police and paramilitaries in Colombia who are returned home. The MDR
reiterated that "the death of Comrade Walter Trochez does go down in history as an unnecessary death, but we will continue our struggle for the ideals and beliefs for which he gave his life are essential pillars for the reconstruction of a more just society, a country with no privileged classes, [to avoid] a land without mercy in the criminal hands of landowners, inflexible brute forces of arms. "
Translation GC title MDR Recuerda primer aniversario asesinato of Walter Trochez
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