Urgent news from Honduras (Sept 22 12:40 p.m., Honduras time)
"The army is entering the homes where the leaders of the Resistance live"
22/09/2009
During the most recent hours, the repression has spread in a brutal manner in the streets of Tegucigalpa.
People are defending themselves in the most minimal way possible, and although there exists much indignation, the violence with which the army is acting is horrific. People by the dozens are being moved to the Chochi Sosa baseball stadium, which is already functioning as a massive detention center. For five hours now, the army has not ceased shooting smoke bombs into the Embassy and nearby neighborhoods.
Most people took shelter in the two neighborhoods near the Brazilian Embassy, which is why the army has begun to shoot gas inside the houses, to force them to come out; there are many charges about people affected [by the gas], babies and older people. Using these intrusions into dwellings, the army is entering the homes where leaders of the Resistance live. The drive, mainly of the young people, who have been showing stamina since 5 a.m., the moment when the most brutal repression in front of the Brazilian embassy was unleashed, is significant. In the Morazán neighborhood, people got organized, putting up barricades to prevent [repressive forces] from continuing to remove them from homes and so the armored cars could not pass.
[Repressive forces] began to take people out of the houses, with the argument that they were looking for propaganda from the Frente Nacional de Resistencia. Any type of reaction is considered a crime, and they arrest any person who appears at the door of his house.
At the same time, hundreds of people have begun to gather on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, like in Santa Barbara, to march to Tegucigalpa to support the Resistance.
In the most recent statements, the police have tried to "calm everyone down," by passing off the wave of arrests as "the application of the law," in view of the violation of the curfew and by saying that the people will be released at its end.
