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February 20, 2005John Negroponte in HondurasDavid Eisenberg has a great blog entry on John Negroponte over on his isen.blog John Negroponte in Honduras Torture, especially when my country does it and helps others do it, ties my stomach in knots when I think about it. Denial is easier. But the nomination of John Negroponte by the Bush Administration to be U.S. "security" czar demands non-denial.John Negroponte was US Ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985. This jaw-dropping 1995 article in the Baltimore Sun documents this era with declassified U.S. documents, interviews with survivors of torture by U.S. trained troops that took place with U.S. knowledge, and with a 1993 investigation by the Honduras government itself.A few excerpts from the Sun article: "Extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions and the lack of due process ... characterized these years of intolerance," stated the [1993] report of the National Commissioner for the Protection of Human Rights in Honduras. "Perhaps more troublesome than the violations themselves was the authorities' tolerance of these crimes and the impunity with which they were committed."and ..... Posted by Jock Gill at February 20, 2005 11:34 AM | TrackBackComments
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