Honduras coup turns violent, gets nowhere fast

Honduran Coup Turns Violent, Sanctions Imposed

Huffington Post
June 30, 2009

Thousands of Hondurans are now in the streets to
protest the coup d’etat in their country. They have
been met with tear gas, anti-riot rubber bullets, tanks
firing water mixed with chemicals, and clubs. Police
have moved in to break down barricades and soldiers
used violence to push back protesters at the
presidential residence, leaving an unknown number
wounded.

If the coup leaders were desperate when they decided to
forcibly depose the elected president, they are even
more desperate now. Stripped of its pretense of
legality by universal repudiation and faced with a
popular uprising, the coup has turned to more violent
means.

The scoreboard in the battle for Honduras shows the
coup losing badly. It has not gained a single point in
the international diplomatic arena, it has no serious
legal points, and the Honduran people are mobilizing
against it. As the military and coup leaders resort to
brute force, they rack up even more points against them
in human rights and common decency.

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