The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras has filed a legal case against the coup plotters and perpetrators, while indigenous and campesino groups warn of deadly repression.
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Members of Congress called for an investigation into a secret program to kill al-Qaeda members following revelations that Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to withhold information about the program.
Rights observers in Afghanistan say US forces may have been directly involved in the mass slaying of up to 2,000 Taliban prisoners in 2001 who were sent across the desert in shipping containers.
Iraqi Christians say they received threats and warned authorities ahead of the wave of bombings at seven churches in Baghdad and Mosul that have left four dead and over 30 injured.
Two local leaders of the Popular Bloc of grassroots groups demanding the return of President Zelaya were killed by unknown gunmen in Honduras—one in San Pedro Sula, the other in the countryside.
The appearance of unity within the Honduran military and the de facto government is deceptive, according to statements by Argentine deputy defense minister Alfredo Forti published in the Buenos Aires daily ClarĂn on July 11. “People with the rank of… Read moreHonduras: army and business owners wavering?
LucĂa Pinochet Hiriart, daughter of late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, expressed her support for the Honduran coup, saying Zelaya left the military no choice but to do “something unconstitutional.”
Seven US trade associations sent a letter to President Obama, calling on the US to assure “predictability and stability” in Honduras—but said nothing about democracy or constitutional order.
Gunmen shot Colombian indigenous leader HĂ©ctor Betancur DomicĂł in the northwestern department of CĂłrdoba. More than 1,254 indigenous people have been killed by armed groups in Colombia since 2002.
Former Bolivian "Minister of Cociane" Luis Arce Gómez was deported from the US to La Paz, where he faces 30 years on charges of human rights violations and genocide.
Colombian bounty hunters shot and killed one of three hippopotami which escaped from a private zoo owned by the late MedellĂn Cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar. Animal rights groups protested.
