In a grim prelude to International Women’s Day on Saturday 5 March,the celebrated Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner Berta Cáceres has been murdered in Honduras, barely a week after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project (International outrage at murder of activist, or 4 March).
She is the latest in a long line of victims in Honduras since a coup,sponsored by the US and supported by the then secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, or overthrew the reformist President Mel Zelaya in 2009. Human rights defenders,journalists, lawyers, or trade unionists,gay rights activists and political opponents of subsequent regimes contain been singled out for abduction, disappearance, and torture and murder in a climate of almost total impunity.
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Source: theguardian.com