URGENT ACTION
Hunger Strike by Indigenous and Garifuna People in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras
Friday, May 9, 1997 11:00 p.m Mountain Time
For over 57 hours, more than 90 Indigenous and Garifuna people are on
a HUNGER STRIKE for over 57 hours, calling for a return of indigenous
lands, justice in the most recent political assasinations of
indigenous leaders and end to repression. This HUNGER STRIKE is
taking place in front of the Presidential House in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras as part of a pilgramage of 3,000+ Indigenous and Garifuna
people who have traveled to the captial from all over the country.
Members of the pilgramage are committed to continue their call for
land and justice, even in the face of harassment, repression,
intimidation and threats on the part of the Honduran government.
YOUR SOLIDARITY IS DESPERATELY NEEDED!
Please send faxes to:
President Carlos Roberto Reina (504) 37-82-37
and
Eduardo Villanueva
Special Inspector of Ethnic People (504) 39-57-17
Calling for the completion of the demands of the Indigenous and
Garifuna people and an immediate peaceful resolution to the
pilgramage.
Financial contributions and donations of food for the more than
3000 supporters encamped at the Presidencial Palace can be designated
to Confederacion de Pueblos Autoctonos de Honduras (CONPAH) at CONPAH
Aptdo. 20.585 Comayaguela, M.D.C. Honduras; tel. (504) 25-26-12.
For more information, please see our web page at:
www.ibw.com.ni/~cgenica
or contact us by email at either conpah%conpah@sdnhon.org.hn
or andres%acceso@sdnhon.org.hn
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South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC)
P.O. Box 28703
Oakland CA, 94604
Phone: (510)834-4263 Fax: (510)834-4264
Email: saiic@igc.apc.org
Office: 1714 Franklin Street, 3rd Floor, Oakland
Home Page: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/nativeweb/abyayala/orgs/saiic/
For more information about SAIIC, send an empty email message to:
saiic-info@igc.apc.org