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  • Many human rights observers have talked about the increasing militarisation of Honduras, with military figures being given government positions as well as military being given increased powers and visibility. Military and police have also recently been given wage increases.<br />
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Here members of the Honduran Navy charge a barricade raised by protestors against the inauguration of Juan Orlando Hernandez in Tegucigalpa. It seems strange using the Navy for riot duties, knowing that the nearest sea is around 150km from Tegucigalpa. Reportedly, every member of every armed force in the country has been brought out onto the street to contain protests.
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  • A soldiers throws a teargas bomb at protestors in the centre of Tegucigalpa. Disturbances in the centre of Tegucigalpa. Protestors against President Juan Orlando Hernández were met by thousands of Police, Navy, Army and Military Police.
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  • Fr Ismael Moreno, known as Melo, is a Jesuit priest, human rights campaigner and the Director of Radio Progreso. He has received repeated and specific death threats recently, and the radio station has suffered attacks, including the sabotage of the transmission tower in Tegucigalpa.<br />
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After leading prayers at an ecumenical vigil outside the US embassy, he spoke about defending human rights in Honduras.<br />
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"The situation for us, human rights defenders, while Juan Orlando Hernandez is in power, is in permanent and growing danger".
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  • Military Police on night patrol in a neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa
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  • Military Police armed with rifles emerge through the roof of a military vehicle as they drive through the city of Tegucigalpa.
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  • Militarised streets in Tegucigalpa
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  • Supporters of National Party candidate Juan Orlando Hernandez shouted their slogan 'four years more' and made a four-finger-salute as they marched in Tegucigalpa. Videos circulated on social media shortly afterwards showing that many of those on the march had been paid 50 Lempiras to attend.
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  • Military Police patrolling the La Era neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa stop and search young men in the street.
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  • Military Police patrolling the La Era neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa stop and search young men in the street.
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  • Military Police on the back of a pickup truck patrolling a neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa
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  • Military Police search a billiards hall in La Era neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa
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  • A protestor on a moped and on foot move through the centre of Tegucigalpa amid clouds of teargas.
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  • Army, Police, Military Police and Navy on riot patrol in Tegucigalpa. Most cover their face with a balaclava, they have no visible ID and they often travel in unmarked cars without number plates.
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  • Honduran Army begin to move a burning barricade on the outskirts of the capital Tegucigalpa.
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  • A night view of the city of Tegucigalpa from the Suyapa neighbourhood, behind the Basilica de Suyapa.
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  • Riot police chase protestors in the Kennedy neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa.
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  • President Juan Orlando Hernandez during his investiture event in the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa on January 27th this year. <br />
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The event took place inside several rings of military exclusion that extended for a kilometre from the stadium. A limited number of people were brought in, arriving on buses, and reportedly many were paid to attend, certainly many didn’t want their photograph taken. Animators in front of the stands instructed people when to cheer and wave the flags they were given. Later, videos circulated on social media of heaps of discarded National Party flags and of fights that broke out over the distribution of sandwiches that were promised to the people who attended.
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  • Protestors against electoral fraud sang the Honduran national anthem outside the US Embassy in Tegucigalpa.
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  • Military Police patrolling the La Era neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa stop and search young men in the street.
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  • Policemen stand next to a water cannon truck in the Kenndy neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa. One of the policemen wears a skull mask, a sign of death, which intimidates protestors. Many protestors have been killed, disappeared or imprisoned by the police.
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  • Police fire teargas against protestors in the centre of Tegucigalpa.
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  • Cases of votes from across Honduras are stored in a warehouse in a government building in Tegucigalpa, workers select cases for a partial recount.
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  • A well-equiped military Policeman on night patrol in Tegucigalpa
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  • Military Police patrolling the La Era neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa stop and search young men in the street.
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  • Soldiers run through central Tegucigalpa, ready to shoot teargas at protestors.
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  • Soldiers march towards a burning barricade in the capital Tegucigalpa
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  • Military Police patrolling the La Era neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa stop and search young men in the street.
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  • a protestor strikes a match to light a burning barricade in the Kennedy neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa in demonstrations against the government.
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  • Salvador Nasralla speaks to UNE TV reporters during a moving demonstration through the poorest neighbourhoods of Tegucigalpa.
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  • Riot police advance on a performace by poets and musicians singing songs in the street in Villanueva, Tegucigalpa. The performace was planned to alleviate frequent repression in the streets of the neighbourhood. Around 100 people arrived for the cultural event, but around 300 members of the Army, Cobra units [riot police], Police and the Military Police arrived to disperse the people, to stop the singing and poetry. The performace ended without much resistance from the musicians and poets.
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  • Militarised streets in Tegucigalpa
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  • Juan Olando Hernandez, widely known as JOH, stands briefly with his correligionaries during a demonstration in Tegucigalpa
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  • A Military Policeman with a sniffer dog on patrol in Tegucigalpa
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  • Military Police patrolling the La Era neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa stop and search young men in the street.
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  • Military Police search a billiards hall in La Era neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa
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  • Military Police search a billiards hall in La Era neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa
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  • Military Police search a billiards hall in La Era neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa
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  • A water cannon was used several times against protestors in the centre of Tegucigalpa.
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  • Military Police fired teargas at protestors across the capital city of Tegucigalpa on the day of the presidential inauguration of Juan Orlando Hernández.
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  • All military forces in Honduras have been brought onto the streets to contain protests against electoral fraud and the inauguration of Juan Orlando Hernández as President. Here, members of the Honduran Naval Forces wait in formation with shields as they prepare to charge a barricade of protestors in El Guanacaste, Tegucigalpa.
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  • On Women's Day, protestors gave roses to policewomen who were on the streets to stop protestors getting near the National Congress buildings in Tegucigalpa.
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  • a view from a patrol car of Tegucigalpa at night
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  • Soldiers charge against protestors in Guanacaste, Tegucigalpa
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  • A soldier instructs another to film the photographer as tyres are taken from protestors in a demonstration against fraud in the capital Tegucigalpa
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  • People hold up candles during a vigil to pray for justice and peace in Honduras.
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  • Bertha Oliva, coordinator of the human rights group Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared, COFADEH. <br />
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"We weren’t prepared for this. <br />
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We believed in democratic process and the rule of law, we thought that future military actions would respect human rights. We were wrong.<br />
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There is a level of espionage and infiltration that we’ve never seen before, that you only get in countries that are at war, in countries in crisis. <br />
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I’m obliged by my position to be positive, I’m here to raise hopes and be positive, but I can’t. We are in an undeclared civil war, where we’ve lost the hard-gotten gains of decades of campaigns, we’ve lost it."
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  • Salvador Nasralla, the candidate who is thought by most to have won the elections fairly, joined protestors against Juan Orlando and electoral fraud.
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  • The EU election observer mission to the elections made statements that they had witnessed a lot of irregularities in the elections.
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  • During a partial recount of votes in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE, workers counting the votes were overseen by international observers. Many irregularities in the electoral process were identified by the EU and EOA observer teams and the final declaration was more than two weeks coming, during which time the computer system was said to have crashed four or five times, including once for 24 hours. Controversially, each time the computer system came back on line the results had changed in favour of Juan Orlando Hernández.
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  • A young protestor returns a teargas cannister to the riot police who shot it at demonstrators during protests against the government.
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  • Soldiers brought out for riot duty are not equipped with gas masks and are suffering from the effects of the gas they are using against the protestors. A civilian is captured by the Army. The man was later released.
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  • Soldiers in formation with shields resist a shower of stones from protestors who were angry about the inauguration of President Juan Orlando Hernández in Honduras.
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  • Soldiers above and below in the National Stadium, waiting for the second presidential inauguration of Juan Orlando Hernández. To boost attendance at this heavily militarised event, the government is accused of paying people from poor areas to attend.
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  • Carlos del Cid, with other members of the International Ecumenical Observatory of Human Rights, stand between riot police and protestors to lower tensions during a demonstration.
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  • A pensative Mel Zelaya, who was ousted from the presidency and removed from the country in a coup in 2009.
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  • Burning barricades on the street in Comayagüela during protests against electoral fraud
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  • Protestors against Juan Orlando Hernández waved flags during a demonstration.
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  • A full recount of votes was requested by several parties and groups, but once Juan Orlando Hernández was declared the "winner" - by the officials he'd himself put into positions in the electoral tribunal - the head of the Organisation of American States called for new elections. Faith in the transparency and trustworthiness of the electoral tribunal is extremely low, so a new tribunal would need to be established beforehand.
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  • During a partial recount of votes in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE, workers counting are overseen by international observers. Many irregularities in the electoral process have been identified by the EU and EOA observer teams. A full recount has been requested. The elections were held on Nov 26 and there was no final declaration of results by Dec 13th.
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  • Bags of vinegar, that people believe reduce the effects of riot control gases, CS gas and the like, are distributed in a demonstration to protestors.
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  • Mel Zelaya and Salvador Nasralla spoke to crowds in a demonstration against electoral fraud in Tegcuigalpa
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  • Burger King and some other businesses suffered broken windows during the disturbances. Protestors are angry at the corruption behind a deal with US franchises, as they don't pay taxes in Honduras.
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  • Roxana Corrales, National Network of Women Defenders of Human Rights.<br />
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"Our network is made up of women, we work on defence of our natural resources, that belong to everyone, and we work on reproductive and sexual rights.<br />
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At the moment we are defending the rights of people to protest. We’ve seen aggressions against people demonstrating, who use their legitimate right to protest, they are shot at with teargas, and with live rounds, they are detained illegally. So, there is a strong need for accompaniment by human rights defenders, that’s why we’re here.<br />
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Today for example, there was a cultural activity, a concert, in one of the neighbourhoods that has been heavily repressed. This artistic group decided to support the people of the neighbourhood with a presentation of music and poetry. The police and army have stopped the event. The police arrive and without exchanging words they beat people with batons, shoot teargas at them. So we try to mediate, and to document what happens. <br />
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Today there were maybe 100 people who’d come to sing, but the Army, Cobra units [riot police], the Police and the Military Police arrived, around 300 of them, to disperse the people, to stop the singing and poetry. The people ran away, they are intimidated by the armed forces."
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  • A seemingly choreographed removal of rubbish from the road by the Cobras, riot police.
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  • Father Ismael Moreno SJ, known as Padre Melo, talks about press freedom in Honduras and faith.<br />
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Media in Honduras is intimately linked to the groups who have power. Moreover, power in Honduras is ultimately expressed through the capacity to control the media.  The well-established national media in the country is associated with the five powerful groups that exist in the country. Those are Grupo FICOHSA, Grupo Atlántida, Grupo Dinant, Grupo Terra and Grupo Karim’s. These groups bring together the 17 most powerful groups in Honduras, the 17 most powerful surnames in Honduras. <br />
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The media, the TV, radio and printed press, normally follow the script, that they shouldn’t intimidate these groups, and ultimately express the interests of these powerful groups.<br />
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So, the media in Honduras is extremely conditioned by the owners, who are part of these economic groups, and who have more power than any government. They are the real government, and they have the ability to veto any sort of candidature that could affect their interests. These are the five groups that were behind the coup of 2009 and these are the five groups that are behind the re-election of Juan Orlando Hernandez, and these are the five groups that have the power of veto over any candidate that has the shadow of Manuel Zelaya Rosales. Manuel Zelaya Rosales represents a threat to these five powerful groups. <br />
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These five groups are tightly linked to the embassy of the United States of America. For the government of the United States, Honduras has a geopolitical interest, without an interest of what life is like in the country. They are wary of political instability, they prefer alliances with the old politicians, even if they are tainted with corruption and are responsible for human rights abuses. <br />
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The media are property, in these sectors of power. So, for the media that aren’t in the script, that relate with defenders of human rights, that relate with opposition, that are outside of the area of control of
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  • A statue of General Francisco Morazán, once leader of Honduras and Central America.
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  • Many police and soldiers are appearing with brand-new kit on the streets. Some comment that this is due to a massive new influx of equipment paid for by the US.
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  • César Silva, reporter for UNE TV, has recently been attacked by armed forces and prevented from working, and suffered an attack on his life by a member of the public while conducting a live broadcast. Silva is famous for breaking a huge story on a multi-million dollar theft of money from the social security by members of the current government. UNE TV is the last TV station to report from the perspective of the Alliance Against the Dictatorship and is facing daily difficulties including having their cable signal, internet and electricity cut off. The police behind César stopped him from approaching Congress, where he is authorised to work.
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  • A lone masked protestor stands amid traffic with two tyres ready to burn them and stones in his hands.
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  • A group of young people carried tyres to burn on a barricade in Comayagüela. Disillusionment among young people was very high. Employment opportunities are scarce, job conditions are poor, and access to university education is politicised and expensive.
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  • Large crowds demonstrated against Juan Orlando Hernández and electoral fraud.
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  • Protestors against Juan Orlando Hernández waved flags during a demonstration.
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  • Demonstrations against the irregularities and fraud in the elections of Nov 26 in Honduras were repelled by the Honduran Army. Riot police refused to repress demonstrations, a move that was welcomed, but when a new pay deal was cut for them, they went back to work.
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  • Demonstrations against the irregularities and fraud in the elections of Nov 26 in Honduras were repelled by the Honduran Army. Riot police refused to repress demonstrations, a move that was welcomed, but when a new pay deal was cut for them, they went back to work.
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