The article mentions the date of April 23 of this year. Do I understand this correctly? A woman Deputy (is that a congresswoman?) named Maria Margarita
Zelaya criticized
Mitcheletti (back when he was just president of the congress not Thug-in-Chief of Honduras) and was subjected to attacks on the basis of her sex because she spoke out against Mitcheletti?
Google translation of the article at the CODEH site...
The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights Honduras (CODEH), pronounced with great concern, to acts of violence and aggression that are recorded continuously in the country, against women. On 23 April this year the attorney Ritzy Xiomara Almendarez came before the Special Prosecutor Women bring to the knowledge .
Causes us concern the systematic assault on human dignity to the detriment of women as a result of historically unequal relationships be imposed between women and men, as cited by the Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, which legitimize or exacerbate violence against women.
Honduras is a signatory of the American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, the treaty in its Article 3 states "every woman has the right to live free of violence both in public and private" recognizes the equal enjoyment , exercise and protection of all human rights for women.
Also in recent years Honduras has killed more than 400 women and has reflected a clear attack on human rights, we deem it necessary, urgent and above all fair to investigate these femicide and both punish the masterminds and materials of these violent attacks and killings committed against females.
We urge the prosecution to proceed, immediately initiate the investigation of this fact and others that have occurred in the National Congress and that it proceed within the framework of the law so that these events are never repeated in history Honduras.
Yolanda Smith
Department of Communication
CODEH---
The original...
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El Comité para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Honduras (CODEH), se pronuncia con extrema preocupación, ante los actos de violencia y agresión que se registran de manera continua en el país, en contra de las mujeres.
El día 23 de abril del presente año la abogada Ritzy Xiomara Almendarez acudió ante la Fiscalia Especial de la Mujer, poniendo en conocimiento el acto de agresión que el día 21 de abril del presente año fue objeto la diputada MARÌA MARGARITA ZELAYA, quien presentó declaraciones en los diferentes medios de comunicación señalando como responsable de la agresión al actual Presidente del Congreso Nacional Roberto Micheletti Baing.
Nos causa preocupación la agresión sistemática a la dignidad humana en perjuicio de la mujer como resultado de las relaciones desiguales que históricamente ser han impuesto entre mujeres y hombres, tal como lo cita la Convención Interamericana para Prevenir, Sancionar y Erradicar la Violencia contra la Mujer, que legitimizan o exacerban la violencia contra la mujer.
Honduras es un país suscriptor de la Convención Interamericana para Prevenir Sancionar y Erradicar la violencia contra la Mujer, tratado que en su articulo 3 manifiesta “toda mujer tiene derecho a una vida libre de violencia tanto en el ámbito público como privado” igual reconoce el goce, ejercicio y protección de todos los derechos humanos para las mujeres.
Así mismo Honduras en los últimos años han muerto más de 400 mujeres lo que ha reflejado una clara agresión a los derechos humanos, creemos necesario, urgente y sobre todo justo, que se investiguen estos femicidios y que a la vez se castigue a los autores intelectuales y materiales de estas agresiones y muertes violentas cometidas contra las féminas.
Instamos al Ministerio Publico a proceder, de inmediato, iniciar la investigación de este hecho y de otros más que han ocurrido en el honorable Congreso Nacional y de lo resulte proceder en el marco de la ley para que estos hechos no se repitan jamás en la historia de Honduras.
Yolanda Sierra
Departamento de Comunicación
CODEHhttp://www.codeh.hn/marg_zelaya.html------------------------------------------
One obvious question: Is Maria Margarita Zelaya related to President Mel Zelaya?
Is this a correct reading of the Spanish--that she criticized Mitcheletti and was subjected to anti-woman hate speech or hate crimes because she criticized him?
What was the nature of the attack on her? Who made the attack? (It sounds very serious, because CODEH is asking for prosecution.)
Is she okay? And what has become of her in the present situation?
Sounds like there was an atmosphere of intimidation and threats way back in April (if I've read this correctly), with the threats or attacks having typical rightwing low-mindedness (for instance, sexism).
I, too, am struck by the fact that the CODEH web site has not been updated since May. What has become of Andrés Pavón Murillo
Presidente ejecutivo del CODEH, who predicted this coup?
Also, the nature of the threatened coup that he describes sounds like a plot of private terrorists, not directly by the Honduran military and Micheletti & co. (the "ten families" and their corpo/fascist sponsors). I wonder if there was some preliminary plotting or "false flag" operation--i.e., a plot to assassinate President Zelaya and blame it on "terrorists" (unknown death squadders)--back in May, with the plot getting changed by June, into merely exiling Zelaya (a la Haiti and Aristide) perpetrated by the "powers that be" in cahoots with whoever their US advisors were (McCain, Negroponte, Reich, Bushwhack moles in the Pentagon, etc.?)
I do have the feeling--and have had it all along--that Obama/Clinton had very little control over the situation at first, that this plot was designed by Bushwhacks to sabotage Obama's stated policy of peace, respect and cooperation in Latin America, and that, while Clinton may not be innocent of collusion, and has been trying to steer events so that the corpo/fascists remain in control in Honduras, the coup was not her idea, and she and Obama have had trouble controlling the Bushwhacks who remain in power in many places--Pentagon, State, CIA. Also, it is an interesting fact that, had Obama/Clinton officially declared this a military coup, this would have triggered a provision of the law that automatically sends the matter to Congress, which has to vote in agreement on an official sanctions policy--and the fascists that Diebold & co. have installed in Congress are giving them all kinds of grief already, including holding up all their appointments in Latin America. They may not have won such a vote! Then where would they be?
Not declaring it a military coup may have been a clever move to avoid a head-on fight with the likes of 'Senator' Jim DeMint in a venue--the US Congress--that has been stacked with fascist obstructionists. I have no illusions about Clinton--nor about what Obama had to agree to, not to be Diebolded in 2008--but I think it's possible that they stopped Plot #1--the "terrorist" assassination--but couldn't (or didn't want to?) stop Plot #2 (exile). (It's notable that the US embassy in Honduras knew of the coup ahead of time, yet no order was given to the US commanders at the US military base in Soto Cano, Honduras, to hold the plane carrying the kidnapped President Zelaya when it stopped at the US base for re-fueling. The US military works very closely with the Honduran military at that base. So it is either gross malfeasance by the US commanders at that base--that they didn't know what was going on (??!!)--or collusion, and who gave that order (to stand down) is unknown.)
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