'Two murders in a week': Honduran activists risk death to defend rights
Deadly catalogue of killings continues unchecked despite hopes raised by election of centre-left female president
Sarah Johnson
Tue 22 Mar 2022 10.06 EDT
One Sunday morning in January, Pablo Isabel Hernández set off to walk to church in San Marcos de Caiquín, a remote part of Honduras, but never arrived. One of Hernándezs brothers, who followed later, found Pablo, 33, dead on the road. He had been shot in the back.
The next day, as Thalía Rodríguez, 46, lay in bed with her partner 500 miles (800km) away in the capital, Tegucigalpa, masked armed men stormed into her flat and shot her in the head.
These two individuals lived far apart from each other, and seemingly with nothing in common, yet one aspect of their lives linked them: both were defending human rights in their community.
They were not the only human rights defenders to die that month. On 22 January, Melvin Geovany Mejía, an indigenous rights defender, died on his way to hospital after being shot in Morazán, about 400 miles north of the capital.
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/22/two-murders-in-a-week-honduran-activists-risk-death-to-defend-rights