How To Stop A Massacre Before It Starts: Honduras Edition
Posted by Phoenix Woman on November 23, 2009
Charles notes a report by Narco News’ Tamar Sharabi that Andres Pavon, the head of CODEH, the Committee for Human Rights in Honduras and a key figure among those backing the lawfully-elected government and resisting the tyranny of the Micheletti coup, has been charged by the coup régime with “defamation of Romeo Vasquez Velasquez,” the general of the armed forces who is working for the golpistas, or coup leadership.
His crime? Urging Hondurans to boycott the fake elections and warning that the golpistas were planning to stage a massacre of Honduran people and then try to make it look like resistance workers did it.
Just as Seymour Hersh’s articles warning of the Bush Administration’s planned attacks on Iran were likely the key reason those attacks didn’t happen, Pavon’s bravery in spreading the word about the alleged planned massacres may well be what keeps them from happening. This is particularly true now that word of them has even made it to non-Spanish-language media, especially in the US, the chances of the golpistas being able to spin any such attack have dropped dramatically.
[UPDATE: Charles notes that the defamation charge is a month old, and the "impeding the election" charge is a new charge against Pavon.]
(Crossposted at The Seminal.)
4 Responses to “How To Stop A Massacre Before It Starts: Honduras Edition”
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Charles II said
Just a small note: the charge of defamation against Andres Pavon is about a month old. The new charge is “impeding the election.”
Phoenix Woman said
Thanks, Charles!
Stormcrow said
PW, it’s going to take some strong proving to get me to accept that Seymour Hersh’s work prevented an attack on Iran.
If you think back, you’ll recall that the “we’re going to war with Iran” meme was all through the ‘Net, as early as the runup to the 2004 election.
At no time did the people who were passing this along explain where the troops and the materiel were supposed to come from.
And it was pikestaff plain, even as early as 2004, that we were flat out of boots to put on the ground, even to cover the wars we had on at the time. Recall that 2004 was the year after the war in Afghanistan grayed out for lack of resources. The Army was calling up reservists who were absent of limbs and in their 50s for service in Iraq.
Iran was always orders of magnitude less feasible than either Iraq or Afghanistan, on account of the terrain, particularly in the northwest of Iran, its population (3 times that of Iraq), and the local government.
Say what you will about the mullahs who are calling the shots over there, they do have something considerably closer to a unitary nation-state than the Iraqis have ever had. Even under Saddam Hussein.
Furthermore, we all got to observe, during the Iran-Iraq War, the sort of extremes they’d go to, to defend themselves in a war they had good reason to consider existential.
The Iran project was never even marginally feasible.
Charles II said
Since when did “feasible” affect Bushco policy?
What I would say is that roaches hate the light, and Bushies act like roaches. More light is good.
There’s no question in my mind that what Hersh was reporting– mercenaries probably under Israeli? Turkish? control conducting propaganda, sabotage, and assassinations– was for real. And that Iran was p–sed about it. And that Israel was willing to bomb Iran just for the sheer juvenile fun of it, knowing there wasn’t much Iran could do (to Israel) to get even.