...Today...EarthRights International (ERI) and residents of the Bajo Aguán region of Honduras filed a lawsuit against the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC)...The communities face murder, beatings, threats and intimidation simply because they live on rich lands coveted by powerful interests.  The fact that the IFC finances such abuses is the first injustice; the second is that the IFC claims absolute immunity from any legal responsibility, no matter how bloodstained its hands are...The Bank encouraged the Honduran government to weaken and permit the sale of collectively-owned land...In the years that followed, land-grabbing and terror have swept across the Aguán.  At the center of this tragedy was (and is) the Dinant Corporation...During the land “reform” period, [Dinant]...took land from the farming cooperatives...Members of the farming collectives were tricked and defrauded.  And those that refused Facusse’s “offers” were met with intimidation and violence...The IFC – the commercial lending arm of the World Bank Group – thought he would make a good business partner...How can the IFC – who purports to seek an to end poverty – fund a company that is, as one of our clients said, “ending the lives of the poor?”...