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Known political assassinations in Honduras in the last 12months, (the 4 th year of military coup)

June 2013

On 12/6/13, Nilson Zuniga was supposably 'collaterally' killed in an attempt against Radio Globo journalist Tony Quintero

On 24/6/13, Radio Globo journalist Annibal Barrow was kidnapped and disappeared by hitmen,his body was found buried and decomposed on 9/7/13

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On 15/6/13, young Libre party activist Marvin Jos Rivera was attempted against and died in hospital.

On 26/6/13, Libre Party leader Silvia Aguiriano, and hersister Teresa

Matute and theirbodyguard wereriddled with bulletsand assassinated byhitmen.

May 2013

2 farmers in El Achiote, Aguan, Humberto Martnez and Celn Ochoa were murderedby hitmen on 5/5/13

Los Laureles farmers coop president of MUCA, Jos Omar Prez Menjivar , wasassassinated by palm oil hitmen on 11/5/13

2 farmers of MOCSAM Valentn Avelar and Celso Victorino Ruz Martnez weremurdered by CAHSA sugar company guards in police presence on 17/5/13

MOCSAM farmer, Maril Miranda Orellana was assassinated by hitmen whofollowed her on 20/5/13.

Rigores/MCRN movement farmer Marvin Arturo and his son Darwin Alexander Trochez was assassinated having been persecuted at least since August 2012, on 30/5/13

April 2013

Three farmers of Dos Bocas community in Santa Rosa de Aguan: WilfredoCartagena Castillo (28), Edwin Geovanni Rivera Castillo (18) andWilmer Rivera Castillo (15) were murdered by hitmen in their own home on3/4/13.

Also at Dos Bocas, hitmen murdered farmers leader Alfronzo VasquezBonilla in his home on 21/4/13.

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Human rights volunteer Ronald Jovel Mirand vila was assassinated, withlittle traces as to who or why.

March 2013

Eduardo Mord Rivera (37), the spokespersonfor Mocra farmers movement and a leader of the Regional Agrarian Platform of AguanValley, assassinated by hitmen;

Roberto Weddle Caldern, Choluteca resistanceleader and Libre political party activist, who wasfound dead.

February 2013

Juan Perez , organised farmer of MOCRA, was killed on 2/2/13.

Williams Alvarado , organised farmerof MUCA, was killed on 2/2/13.

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Jos Trejo , organised farmer of MARCA and brother of Antonio Trejo(assassinatedMARCA lawyer,9/12), was killed on16/2/13.

Santos Jacobo Cartagena , organised farmer of MUCA, was killed on16/2/13.

Yoni Adolfo Cruz , organised farmer of MUCA, and Manuel EzequielGuillen Garcia , organised farmer of MOCRA, were kidnapped on 21/2/13and found dead on 23/2/13.

Feliciana Eligia Suazo , community leader in San Juan Tela, died as sheleft the court, on5/2/13. She wasdeniedaccompanimentrequested on healthgrounds severaltimes.

Jos Andres Andrade Soto , lawyer of Tocoa Col n, was killed on21/2/13.

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January 2013

MOCRA organised farmers Luis Antonio Ramos Reyes and ManuelAntonio Perez were shot dead by hitmen on 11/1/13.

Neighbourhood and grassroots resistance organiser and Libreparty activist ngel Francisco Durn Raudales was killed withothers by hitmen on 17/1/13.

December 2012

Young political leader murdered on 7/12/12,a leader of Pinuistas Socialdemocratas enResistencia movement, Eduardo AlejandroCoello Chvez, was assassinated and his bodywas found with a gunshot in the head.

November 2013

Three farmers were assassinated at Paso Agun on 5/11/12. MARCA farmer Jos Cecilio Perz Martnez was found dead andtortured on 10/11/12, having been kidnapped and disappeared byhitmen the day before.

MARCA farmer Adelmo Leiva was killed by hitmen on 25/11/12.

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El Libertador reported that 3 farm labourers were assassinated byhitmen at the El Coco turnoff in Tocoa on25/11/12. MOCRA farmer of Los Laureles, Wesler Santos Avila, was assassinatedby hitmen on 29/11/12.

LIBRE mayor pre-candidate Edgardo Adalid Motio was assassinated byhitmen on 3/11/12.

The mother of David Daz, an artist in resistance, Trinidad Girn Valladares,

was killed on 21/11/12.

Evangelical journalist ngelEdgardo Lpez Fiallos waskilled by hitmen on 8/11/12.

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October 2013

Douglas Madrid Pea was in a highway blockade opposing modelcities and mining concessions when he was killed by hitmen on4/10

2 farmers were killed in a confrontation with guardsand security forces as a land occupation began in Santa Ana,Atlntida

Garfuna farmers scar Daniel Snchez Batista, JosOlivera Nolasco and Marco Hernndez Gonzales werekilled in Farallones by palm company Dinant guards when theywere going fishing.

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September 2012

MARCA lawyer and human rights defender Antonio TrejoCabrera (41) was assassinated by hitmen with 5 gunshots on

22/9/13

On 25/9/12, about 11.40am Human Rights Prosecutor ManuelEduardo Diaz Mazariego was assassinated by two unknownhitmen on a motorcycle with 6 gunshots

On 8/9/12, Xatruche Operation police and soldiers shot at twofarmers on security duties, Santos Meja and Juan RamonFuentes. They tried to turn around on their motorcycles when theysaw the mounted operation. The officials assassinatedSantos who tried to flee into the bushes

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On 9/9/12, Xatruch force with Coln police support andDinant security guards carried out a violent eviction against300 farmers reoccupying Laureles , launched teargas bombsand fired live ammunition at people , with the violence causingsome pregnant women to lose their babies. A large group was

forced to throw themselves onto the ground, face down. Hector Navarro (69) was killed, 40 were detained .

August 2012

MCRA farmer Isrrael Meja, occupying Laureles farm, wasassassinated on 21/8/12

MUCA farmer Jse Braulio Daz was assassinated by armed menfrom a guards vehicle on 27/8/12

Journalist Jos Noel Canales Lagos was assassinated by hitmen on10/8/12

President of the executive committee of the higher education unionSitraunah, Juan de Dios Snez ,was found dead on 21/8/12.

Volunteer human rights defender Jos Marcos Avila Maradiaga waskilled by hitmen on

13/8/12

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July 2012

Gregorio Chvez Aranda,disappeared 2/7/12, found 6/7/12 independent supporter of MUCAfarmers movement, delegate of Word of God.

Jacobo Erazo Lpez, assassinated on 7/7/12 MUCA member

Jos Luis Dubn Daz (22), assassinated on 8/7/12 MUCA member

Irrael Garca (36), assassinated on 26/7/12 MCRA member, LosLaureles

Evaristo Lpez Cerrano (52), killed in hit and run on 29/7/12 MARCA member of San Isidro

Adonis Felipe Bueso Gutirrez (24), assassinated on 8/7/12, aradio reporter at a Christianstation

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Vidal Cacho, Jimmy Coln Centeno, and Pablo Castillo, summarily executed by assassins in elite police uniforms on 19/7/12, Garfunasof the Triunfo de la Cruz community, an Afro-descendent community in land defence and resistance against plunder andcoup.

End of June 2012

On 25/6/12, high school student, and active member of FNRP andLibre party Carlos Jese Portillo Yanes (20) was found dead insidea plastic bag. He was last seen transporting people to a Libre event.