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Video: Honduran Soldiers Shoot Pro-Zelaya Supporters’ Tires

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Posted on Jul 3, 2009
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In this video footage released by CNN on Friday, protesters en route to a rally in support of former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya find their travels cut short when a troop of soldiers, apparently representing the same military force that ousted Zelaya last Sunday and replaced him with Roberto Micheletti, move in and shoot out their bus tires.

According to CNN, the video was made by a Zelaya supporter using a cell phone camera in Limones, about 70 miles outside the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

CNN:

Another video of the same incident was posted on the Youtube Internet site Thursday under the title “Golpe de estado en Honduras” (Coup in Honduras).

CNN reporters in Honduras have received reports from Zelaya supporters who say troops have stopped buses bringing protesters from the countryside to prevent them from attending rallies in Tegucigalpa.

Honduran military officials said they were unaware of any such incidents.

“I have not been informed of this incident. I cannot confirm or deny it,” Honduran Army spokesman Col. Ramiro Archaga told CNN by phone.

The military’s main job is to protect the nation’s borders, Archaga said, “not guaranteeing internal security.”

Hector Ivan Mejia, spokesman for the Security Ministry, said he had no information of buses being fired upon.

“Protesters will be arrested for vandalic acts but they will not simply be stopped on their way to protests,” Mejia said.

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By rfidler, July 6, 2009 at 12:23 pm #

Oh. My. God! Do you people out there have any idea how expensive bus tires are these days??? This incident should be sent to the Hague immediately for possible war crimes prosecution!

There is an unimpeachable report out there that the buses were not, in fact, filled with Zelaya supporters, but with Canadian tourists on their way to the coast for some scuba diving. (A reporter for the Nation, disguised in a yarmulka and philacteries for his own safety, reported that the commander of the unit was shot for forbidding his soldiers to aim higher at the bus. He said the execution was carried out by an Israeli commando squad on a good-will visit to the country to teach the Hondurans how to goose-step and shine jack-boots. He would have recorded the murder on his cell phone camera, but an over-long conversation with his handlers in the Kremlin killed the friggin battery.)

One passenger reportedly died of stress induced heart attack and another was quoted by Reuters as wondering how anyone could live in such a fascist country with this much humidity.

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By Commune115, July 4, 2009 at 2:10 pm #

It is shameful how Obama is treating a fascist military coup right next door with more timid, softer hands than his response to the violence in Iran. The illegal coup government has now pulled out of the OAS, turning it officially into a rogue state. Obama needs to cut all aid and make it clear that Zelaya must return.

Hugo, start sending advisers and weapons to the resistance!

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By Steve in Los Angeles, July 4, 2009 at 12:00 pm #

This video shows US-trained Honduran soldiers wearing US-supplied uniforms carrying US-supplied weapons carrying out their US military training: obey your government orders.

That’s some good US military training um-hmm.

US President Obama needs to “pull the plug” on the Honduran military and Honduran elite now by officially declaring this an illegal coup and withdrawing all support and levying sanctions AND withdrawing the US military base in Honduras left-over from Reagan’s criminal Contra War (I know—fat chance of that). OR President Obama should just sit down and shut up.

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