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Human Rights are not subject to political negotiation, COFADEH Wed, 05/25/2011 - 09:18 AP Human Rights are not subject to political negotiation translation by Friendship Office of the Americas The Committee of the Families of the Detained-Disappeared of Honduras (COFADEH) celebrates the signing of the Cartegena de Indias Accord which permits the return of ex Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya Rosales to our country. At the same time, COFADEH condemns the language of the oligarchy aligned with the coup in the text of the Accord which refers to human rights as a political instrument of reconciliation, evidence of their old practice of negotiation. While admitting that during the political crisis there have been people who consider that their human rights were violated, the Government of Honduras, through the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, commits to attend these denunciations in order to contribute to the reconciliation of Honduran society within a framework of verifiable guarantees ( ) and awaits support from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reads the official, signed text. The terms utilized reflect doubts, ironies, intentions and evasions on the part of the same politicalmilitary elite that attempted to bury the memory of the forced disappearances during the 1980s and sell a manipulative discourse regarding human rights violations to the international community. At the beginning of the decade of the 90s the same ex Presidents - Rafael Callejas, Ricardo Maduro and Carlos Flores, who audited the text of the Cartegena Accord repeated the need to leave the past behind and to end the dark night of disappearances. *This was their way to escape their own responsibilities, some of them as participants in the Alliance for Progress in Honduras (APROH) that inspired and financed the repression against political and ideological dissidence at that time and which continues to hold us in grief.* *We have no doubt that ex President Zelaya signed the Cartagena Accord in absolute good faith regarding the urgency of investigating human rights violations that have resulted since the coup détat to the present, to repair damage caused to the victims and to punish those responsible.* *However, we have nothing but doubts regarding those who support the coup, control the repressive forces and sustain a fragile state that fails to overthrow the enormous monster of impunity with legality and justice. * *Our doubts are underscored by the fact that with this Accord, the regime imposes recognition of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights as the entity that will permit the national capacity to promote and protect human rights in Honduras.* This Committee does not observe habits, practices or policies that indicate that this institution makes even the most minimal difference within the State regarding the government Human Rights Commission which is delegitimized as a result of its partiality regarding institutional violence against the population. Nearby, five teachers sustain an indefinite hunger strike due to violations of their social and economic rights; hundreds of campesino families in the zone of Aguán are surrounded by legal and clandestine forces acting against their lives and lands; and an average of 16 violent deaths occur each day throughout the country, in total impunity. Therefore, we exhort the population to continue to use services worthy of your trust and respect, to access justice at all levels, local and international, as the people of Honduras rebuild institutionality and the rule of law that has been lost. For the crimes and those who commit them Neither forgetting, nor forgiveness Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 23 de mayo de 2011 COFADEH ------------------------------ *And from the extreme Right in Honduras we get rejection of the Cartagena Accord !* *-----------------------------------------------------* http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post.html Wednesday, May 25, 2011 "There's A Hidden Agenda" "There's a hidden agenda," or so says Fernando Anduray, a UCD Member. Jimmy Dacaret, former had of the UCD, who stepped down a few weeks ago, said the Cartagena Accord quarrels with the Honduran constitution<http://www.tiempo.hn/inicio/item/8734-jimmy-dacaret-siente-que-el-acuerdo-ri%C3%B1e-con-la-ley.html> . Are either of these statements the official policy statement of the UCD? No. The UCD itself has formally remained silent, like so many other golpistaparts of Honduran civil society, ANDI and COHEP each said last Sunday that they would make formal statements last Monday, yet, if they've made them, no one has seen fit to cover them. The Catholic Church, through a spokesperson, said last Sunday that it would need a day<http://www.latribuna.hn/2011/05/22/iglesia-catolica-analizara-que-fue-lo-que-se-firmo/>to analyze the document. It spoke out<http://www.latribuna.hn/2011/05/24/%E2%80%9Ccon-el-acuerdo-de-cartagena-ganamos-todos%E2%80%9D/>late Monday in favor of the accord. Nonetheless, when the UCD does formally speak, if ever, it probably will sound a lot like what Dacaret and Anduray had to say. Dacaret, speaking to Tiempo on Sunday, said "The politicians continue to play with the law, with this Accord - although they say its based on the constitution - it disrespects it completely." Dacaret, however,failed to cite any examples of this disrespect. He predicted that Lobo Sosa and Juan Orlando Hernandez would find themselves in a fight with Manuel Zelaya Rosales. Fernando Anduray is another often heard voice of the UCD. In Wednesday's La Tribuna, he said the Cartagena Accord has a hidden agenda<http://www.latribuna.hn/2011/05/25/%E2%80%9Chay-una-agenda-oculta%E2%80%9D-fernando-anduray/> . "We are preoccupied by the things that we don't see of the Accord that was signed; on the one hand, we have a call to a National Constituent Assembly, but disguised in the form of constitutionalism and it does not say the time in which these situations will happen." Anduray goes on to launch an attack on Lobo Sosa: "There's a hidden agenda; this has been the permanent conduct of President Porfirio Lobo Sosa, who has never told the Honduran people the truth and the things which are behind [this]; here, nonetheless, is behind the participation of Honduras in this famous society of nations the Hugo Chavez wants to form." Anduray sees all of this as a plot in which Manuel Zelaya Rosales and the FNRP are political instruments for those who seek macroeconomic control for the next twelve years. The UCD does not like anything that Manuel Zelaya Rosales or Hugo Chavez are part of. Lobo Sosa is being tarred with that brush for having agreed to the Chavez - Santos mediation that resulted in the Cartagena Accord, and for saying that a plebiscite is the way to begin the road to convene a National Constituent Convention. So from a fair proxy for the extreme right of Honduran society, we would have to say the Cartagena Accord has gotten a pretty thorough rejection, and Porfirio Lobo Sosa along with it. 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