Honduras: Murder of peasant leader

On the 24th of May 2005, the peasant leader Edickson Roberto Lemus Calderón, regional General Secretary of the National Office of Rural Workers (Central Nacional de Trabajadores del Campo CNTC) in El Progreso, Yoro, was murdered. He was traveling by bus in El Progreso, when an unknown armed person forced the bus to stop, entered the bus and shot Sr. Lemus Calderón four times into the head.

Regarding this act of violence, it is very important to pressure the Honduran authorities to take urgent measures to detect the authors of the murder and to assure the integrity of the other members of the CNTC and other peasants’ organizations. Please send this letter to the Honduran President, in which you express your concern about this situation and ask the President to adopt measures to investigate into the murder and guarantee the security of all members of the peasants’ organizations.