Honduras Honors Murdered Teachers

By Redaction AHORA / redaccion@ahora.cu / Monday, 03 August 2009 12:47

Teachers and other members of the National Front against the coup d''Etat continue Monday paying tribute to two teachers who were murdered by police agents.

People's organizations parallel announced the beginning of arrangements for a national resistance march against the de facto government established after the June 28 military coup.

The bodies of teachers Roger Vallejos and Martin Florencio Rivera Barrientos are exposed at the College of Middle Education Professors (COPEMH), from which they were part.

Hundreds of people have visited the place to express their solidarity with the victims' relatives, repudiate the repression sparked off after the coup, and demand the re-establishment of the state of law.

Vallejos was shot dead Saturday during a military and police repression in the outskirts of the capital on Thursday, while Rivera Barrientos was killed early Sunday when he returned home from Vallejos' wake.

The Front's general coordinator Juan Barahona told Prensa Latina that today's agenda will be dedicated to honor the two teachers, whose murder was attributed to the de facto government.

Meanwhile, teachers' colleges and the Front's other organizations expect to start today arrangements for the National Popular Resistance March, to demand the restitution of the constitutional order and President Manuel Zelaya.Honduras Honors Murdered Teachers



Tegucigalpa, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) Teachers and other members of the National Front against the coup d''Etat continue Monday paying tribute to two teachers who were murdered by police agents.

People's organizations parallel announced the beginning of arrangements for a national resistance march against the de facto government established after the June 28 military coup.

The bodies of teachers Roger Vallejos and Martin Florencio Rivera Barrientos are exposed at the College of Middle Education Professors (COPEMH), from which they were part.

Hundreds of people have visited the place to express their solidarity with the victims' relatives, repudiate the repression sparked off after the coup, and demand the re-establishment of the state of law.

Vallejos was shot dead Saturday during a military and police repression in the outskirts of the capital on Thursday, while Rivera Barrientos was killed early Sunday when he returned home from Vallejos' wake.

The Front's general coordinator Juan Barahona told Prensa Latina that today's agenda will be dedicated to honor the two teachers, whose murder was attributed to the de facto government.

Meanwhile, teachers' colleges and the Front's other organizations expect to start today arrangements for the National Popular Resistance March, to demand the restitution of the constitutional order and President Manuel Zelaya.

Source: Prensa Latina

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