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National Reconciliation or continuation of the coup

Article from the Annual Report 2010 of the Ecumenical Office for Peace and Justice Association

both because of the social spirit of optimism in the country and the continued harassment of the movement by political murders, paramilitarization and media smear campaigns employed by the Ecumenical Office in the year following the coup of June 2009 more intensively on the development of the democracy movement in Honduras.
representatives of Honduran human rights organizations and the movement FNRP (Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular - National Front of the Popular Resistance) repeatedly asked us for help in "breaking the news blockade" on the situation in Honduras and asked to show an international presence in the country.


Even before the government takeover by President Porfirio Lobo 27 January 2010 Parliament appointed by the coup, President Micheletti same as deputies for life, to protect it by immunity from prosecution. Shortly thereafter, a so-called amnesty law was passed that will protect primarily members of the police and military from prosecution for human rights violations and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) was sharply criticized. Members of the Lobos National Party voted for both laws, and made it from the beginning suspected of complicity with the coup. It was given at a central point responsible for the coup, General Romeo Vazquez Lobo from the post of Director of the state telephone company Hondutel.

Hondutel "Palace of the Telecommunications

The regime Lobo fights since he took office to its national and international recognition. The countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) to link the resumption of Honduras in those States Federal Government under still subject to conditions that does not meet Lobo, including the criminal free re-entry of the exiled ex-President Zelaya. In the course of which the South American states refuse alliances MERCOSUR and ALBA's regime continues Lobo recognition. Unlike the governments of the U.S. and the EU: The argument that we must stabilize this government to bring a social reconciliation process after the supposedly vanquished coup in response, congratulated the representatives of these countries Lobo took office and also assessed since the coup frozen development aid again. This includes, inter alia, a project of the EU to strengthen the Honduran security sector (PASS), the German from the is Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) conducted. Lorena Zelaya, representative of the FNRP evaluates this as direct advocacy for the institutions that are responsible for the suppression of the democracy movement. The person responsible for development cooperation in the representation of the EU in Tegucigalpa, Vanessa Valladares admits, however, a dissatisfaction with the cooperation with the participating Honduran institutions, but so far not led to stop the questionable project.

Vanessa Valladares, who is responsible for the EU representative office in Tegucigalpa for development cooperation.

were also resumed negotiations on the Association Agreement EU-Central America, which were completed in May 2010 the EU-Latin American summit in Madrid ceremony. This led to a remarkable scandal: The majority of the South African president refused to attend the Summit in the event that Lobo would be invited. Zapatero, the English hosts resorted to in order to move the signing of the Agreement on the day after the official summit. Paul-Emile Dupret, employees of the left group in the European Parliament, commented on this by saying: "Latin America, Europe, issued a lesson in democracy." In the three months in office the government Lobo had been killed including nine Honduran journalists. Zapatero responded by promising to English prosecutors in Honduras to borrow, the cases should help clarify. By the end of 2010, none of the over 100 political murders has been solved since the coup. There is still an atmosphere of complete impunity for crimes against the democracy movement, such as the U.S. human rights organization Human Rights Watch noted.

Hondurans involved in the protests against the EU-Latin America summit in May in Madrid

It is difficult for human rights defenders, to prove the concrete participation of governmental institutions in the crimes. Prevails, so Gilberto Rios of the human rights organization FIAN Honduras, a complicity between police, military, private security forces, paramilitaries, paid killers. The Honduran liberation theologian Fausto Milla speaks of a "Colombian strategy" when going about in the plantation region Bajo Aguan simultaneously carried out with impunity murder, the militarization of the zone and a media smear campaign against then colonizing small farmers and farmers happened.

evacuation of settlements in Panama plantation area Bajo Aguan. Involved police, military and para-military private security

The government, however, Lobo are trying to make their will to prosecute human rights violations to the test. Besides the official truth commission, which emerged from the Treaty of San José, there are three other state agencies that will provide for improvement of the human rights situation. Given the ineffectiveness of these measures, the Honduran human rights platform in June 2010 set up a separate truth commission, which internationally known human rights defenders is busy, including the English judge Luís Carlos Nieto and the Argentine Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel. On demand
confirmed representatives of the Federal Government and the EU Commission in Honduras, in principle, to be ready to support the alternative truth commission financially. In fact, is but so far only support the official truth commission. This deals only with the events until the election in November 2009 and thus has no influence on the current situation. As the only European country to date support the alternative, the Netherlands Commission. Meanwhile, the staff this Commission seriously threatened personally.

Despite the enormous threat level for their activists working democracy movement FNRP continue to enforce their demand for a public dialogue on a new constitution. From April to October 2010 were collected in an independent government agencies conducted 1.3 million signatures campaign for the Constituent Assembly (Constituyente) and the criminal-free return of ex-President Zelaya. This is roughly half the voting population of the country. Lobo on the government responded with an invitation to the FNRP to a dialogue on a new constitution, but this rejected. In support, they claimed, would have been the victims of human rights violations receive justice. Also provides for the proposed schedule of Lobo, to marginalize the position of the FNRP and putschist forces to be preferred.

The Honduran society remains deeply polarized. In a poll by the Honduran Institute CESPAD October 2010, only 17 percent expressed confidence in the current democratic, 55 percent called for a Constituent Assembly and 33 percent were behind the movement FNRPii.
These works, however, stuck to its internal consolidation. There are programs for civic education and strengthening the structures in the communities and neighborhoods instead. An important role is played by the establishment of a network of community radio stations that play in the democratization process has a key role and therefore are targets for attacks and threats by paramilitary groups and over again. Within the
FNRP finds since November 2010, a strategy debate over whether the movement should participate as a party in the next elections in 2012 or whether, first, a longer process of building power from below is necessary.

The Congress of FNRP 19 October rejected the dialogue offer by the Government Lobo unanimously

lead to opponents of choice option is that an elite that have already defended their power in a coup, is unlikely to be willing to transfer it to the people through elections. Proponents say that the participation in the 2012 election was the only way to get to game rooms, which can change the country. It is expected that the Congress of FNRP 26 February 2011 decision.

built Given these developments, the World Bureau in 2010 from its solidarity and human rights work to Honduras:
In cooperation with the German "Honduras-ordination", Honduran human rights organizations and organized by the Ecumenical FNRP Office in 2010, various events and tours with Honduran guests (see page XX, XX) and a two-week delegation of journalists and representatives of human rights groups to Honduras in December 2010 (see page XXX).
In 2011 we will for the work to Honduras more challenges: The media presentation of the results of the delegation in December as a brochure and a photo exhibition, participation in building an infrastructure for human rights monitoring in Honduras and a critical public discussion of the German and European support for the Honduran security sector during the above PASS project.