Honduran Resistance Urges UN to Act to End Repression; UN Responds

"Day and night, they continually shot at us. We are under a curfew, but even so the people are resisting." ~ Rafael Alegria, Honduran resistance leader

The situation in Honduras requires immediate and concrete action from the United Nations, according to activist and Honduran resistance leader Rafael Alegria in a copyrighted interview with Correspondent Ana Delicado, published in today's international web edition of Publico.es. Following is my translation of the article completed with the assistance of one of Alegria's fellow La Via Compesina leaders, Carlos Marentes. It is difficult to find good original source information about Honduras in English. The facts revealed in the following interview are compelling. Emphasis as given in the original article is retained. [UPDATE 9/26/2009 11:00 26 : Europe sends emisaries to Honduras to try to solve the conflict: UE devuelve embajadores a Honduras en busca de solución a la crisis. http://bit.ly/Y0naS]

-------------

"We have to communicate that the people's resistance to the coup continues moving ahead." The peasant leader Rafael Alegria, one of the members of the National Front of Resistance Against the Coup, transmitted clear emotion as he said this. "Neighborhoods, cities, states, municipalities...the people's movement is present everywhere in the country. But the armed forces are repressing the people."

After an urgent meeting that convened diverse human rights organizations, Rafael Alegria has denounced the deterioration into violence that is occurring today in Honduras, and that has been the instinctive response of the de facto government even before the return of the legitimate Honduran president Manuel Zelaya. "Therefore we await a resolution of the UN Security Council. They must pass a declaration of concrete action. The situation, according to accounts by telephone, is untenable."

"In these four days there have been about 25 wounded, some gravely," he vehemently stated.

The representative of the Resistence Front against the Honduran Coup moreover continued that during this time more than 500 people have been detained, some of whom little by little have been freed. "Day and night, they continually shot at us. We are under a curfew, but even so the people are resisting".

Despite of the coordination among all the resistance movements of the country, and even though institutions like the Organization of Human Rights of Honduras continue to denounce the situation, Rafael Alegria impatiently awaits the arrival of the Interamerican Commission of Human Rights, that still has not been able to enter the country due to the closure of the airports. "We await their arrival tonight or tomorrow," he ventured. "The Honduran people continue to be persecuted and massacred. We need them here urgently."

________

UPDATE 9/25/2009. From a BBC news article attached in the News Section: The UN Security Council has called on the interim government of Honduras to "cease harassing" the Brazilian embassy housing deposed leader Manuel ZelayaManuel Zelaya. Click on the mainstream press news articles in the news section for more information on UN response.