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2 Déc 2019

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COPINH (Honduras)

BOLETÍN: Impunity doesn’t end with a sentence

...On December 2, 45 months after the crime and one year after the trial ended, the judiciary issued a judgment against seven material perpetrators for the murder of Berta Cáceres, indigenous leader and co-founder of COPINH and the attempt to murder against Gustavo Castro. Among those sentenced are workers of the company Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. and members of the Armed Forces of Honduras...

The Court, in the judgment, confirmed that Berta Cáceres’ leadership in defense of the Gualcarque River along with the resistance action of the Lenca people organized through COPINH “(…) caused the planning and mediation of the way to kill Mrs. Cáceres. all with the knowledge and consent of the executives of the DESA company, including Mr. Sergio Rodríguez and others who are not part of this process. ”

This reaffirms the denounce made since March 2, 2016, by Berta’s family and the COPINH: the murder of our companion Berta Cáceres was an action planned and organized by the executives of the company DESA, with the purpose of ending the resistance of the Lenca people and in complicity with the State of Honduras.

The prosecution and sentencing of the material authors is a necessary step and has been an achievement of the struggle of COPINH, the family, the Honduran people and the solidarity towards the breakdown of structural impunity. However, the Honduran State seeks to silence the pressures of the international community and public opinion...

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