Berta Cáceres Flores was a Honduran human rights and environmental activist who led a courageous movement to defend Indigenous lands and communities. On March 2, 2016, intruders broke into her house and shot her to death. At the time of her murder, Berta was working to stop the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project – a dam that threatens a sacred river for the Lenca Indigenous People in Honduras.
Berta’s organization – the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) – and Berta’s family are demanding:
- The US State Department insists on an independent commission to investigate her murder and that the government of Honduras allows this investigation to proceed.
- The United States should suspend all assistance and training to Honduran security forces, with the exception of investigatory and forensic assistance to the police, so long as the murders of Berta Cáceres and scores of other Honduran activists remain in impunity.
- The US Government to stop supporting the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project and projects like it.
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For more information:
- Berta Cáceres, Honduran human rights and environment activist, murdered, The Guardian, March 4, 2016
- National Lawyers Guild Report on the Murder of Berta Cáceres, March 28, 2016
- Brutal murder of indigenous leader in Honduras a tragedy waiting to happen, Amnesty International, March 3, 2016
