July 18 - 1st anniversary of kidnapping & disappearance of four Garifuna land & rights defenders in Honduras

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Rights Action
July 16, 2021
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July 18 - 1st anniversary of forced kidnapping & disappearance of four Garifuna Indigenous land & rights defenders in Honduras
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The four men – Garifuna land defenders - were forcibly disappeared from their families and community by agents of the military-backed, drug-trafficking Honduran government that (ever since the 2009 coup ousted Honduras’ last democratically elected government) maintains full economic and military relations with the US, Canada and European Union, World Bank, IDB and IMF, and many global companies and investors.

Global call for solidarity. Show your solidarity for the victims of forced disappearances,
for their families, for OFRANEH
On July 18, 2020, around 5:00am, approximately 30 heavily armed men wearing Police Investigation Directorate (DPI) uniforms and vests, identifying themselves as such, entered the Garífuna community of Triunfo de la Cruz, department of Atlántida, Honduras. They violently detained the president of Triunfo de la Cruz, Alberth Sneider Centeno, along with Milton Joel Martínez Álvarez, Suami Aparicio Mejía García and Gerardo Misael Trochez Calix.

Since then, their whereabouts are unknown.

It is hard to overstate the complicity and responsibility of the US, Canadian and European community governments, and other “international actors”, that empower and enable the drug-trafficking, repressive government of President Juan Orlando Hernandez to remain in power.

As we have done since 1998, Rights Action will continue to fund and support OFRANEH (Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras) that spear-heads visionary work and struggle along Honduras north shore in defense of Garifuna lands and territories, human rights and the environment.

Via OFRANEH, we support SUNLA, the Committee for the Search and Investigation of the Disappeared of Triunfo de la Cruz. ([link removed])

Rights Action will also continue to chip away at the complicity and impunity of the US, Canada and European Union, World Bank, IDB and IMF, and global companies and investors in the sectors of tourism and African palm production that employ systemic violence and corruption to steal Garifuna lands, evict families and communities, so as to invest in tourism operations and African palm production.

“In the last two years alone, more than forty Garifuna have been murdered and a large number of others have fled their communities due to threats, criminalization and persecution.”
Miriam Miranda, General Coordinator of OFRANEH

* OFRANEH (Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras) & TASSC (Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International) to receive Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award ([link removed])
* NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences of Canada, & other tourism invaders, criminalize 73-year old Garifuna woman defending her own land ([link removed])
* A “Micronation for Sale” in Roatan: Tourism imperialism on Caribbean shore of Honduras ([link removed])

Archives - OFRANEH ([link removed])
Since 1998, Rights Action has supported OFRANEH that is - along with COPINH - a leading community defense organization struggling in defense of land, the environment, indigenous rights and a fair and just “development” model. Like COPINH, OFRANEH is leading the struggle against the military-backed, ‘open-for-global-business’, undemocratic and corrupt Honduran regime.

OFRANEH
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To support land, human rights and environmental defender groups in Honduras and Guatemala, like OFRANEH & the SUNLA justice struggle, and COVID and hurricane relief work, make check to "Rights Action" and mail to:
* U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
* Canada: (Box 552) 351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8

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Donations of securities in Canada and the U.S.? Write to: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Follow work of other groups doing long-term work with Honduras
* www.hondurassolidarity.org ([link removed])
* Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective: www.solidaritycollective.org ([link removed])
* Friendship Office of the Americas: [link removed] ([link removed])
* Alliance for Global Justice: www.afgj.org ([link removed])
* School of Americas Watch: www.soaw.org ([link removed])


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