Nina Lakhani takes a look at ongoing violence in Honduras for The Guardian with Honduran activists survive attacks months after Berta Cáceres murder. Human rights activists of different stripes continue to suffer threats and violence seven months after Berta Cáceres’s murder.
On Monday morning, shots were fired at the house of a community leader in Llano Grande, Colomoncagua. Alexander García is the elected leader of the Civic Council of Popular Organizations and Indigenous Peoples (COPINH) in Llano Grande. Later that night, the name who assumed leadership of the COPINH after Cáceres’s death, Tomás Gómez Membreño, was also attacked while returning home from the office. His car was shot up by gunmen.
While Honduras has experienced some success in bringing the country’s murder rate down, violence committed against human rights advocates continues unabated and impunity remains the norm. It was only a few weeks ago that the case files from the Cáceres investigation were inexplicably stolen from the backseat of the judge’s car.
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