He Government of Honduras ordered this Thursday the “direct intervention” of the National Police and the Armed forces in two regions of the country after register two massacres that left at least 15 deadcrimes against which the State assured that “it will act firmly to capture those responsible.”
The deployment of law enforcement forces will be concentrated in a “immediate” in the sector of Rigorsin the municipality of TrujilloCaribbean department of Colonwhere at least 10 people would have been murdered this morning, the Ministry of Security reported in a statement.
The Minister of Security, Gerson Velasqueztold journalists that, at the moment, they do not have “official information on how many the bodies are or where they are.”
Until now, Honduran authorities have not established no hypothesis about the motives of the crime multiple in Colona region affected by a historic land conflict which has left more than 200 dead in recent decades due to clashes between farmers and private security guards.
The military intervention and police will also be applied in the area of Maroonbordering Guatemala, where four police officers and an alleged criminal died during an armed confrontation.
The shooting occurred when members of the Anti Maras and Gangs Police Directorate Against Organized Crime (Dipampco) were trying to enter a home in an anti-drug operation, the spokesperson for the National Police, Edgardo Barahona.
The operational plan in both areas contemplates the preservation of evidence and the development of search operations to “identify and capture” to those responsible for the attacks, he added.
The Security Secretariat He also announced the formation of “joint investigative teams” made up of prosecutors, intelligence units and forensic medicine specialists, with the aim of guaranteeing “transparency” in the proceedings and results that allow the facts to be clarified.
The priority of this institutional action is to “strengthen citizen confidence and reaffirm the institutional commitment in the frontal fight against criminal impunity,” he added.
“The State of Honduras will act firmly to capture those responsible” for the violent events, as well as “protect vulnerable communities” and ensure “comprehensive justice” for the victims, in an effort to reaffirm its constitutional duty to “preserve security, peace and public order in the country.”
The leaders of the Ministry of Security and the Armed Forces hold an emergency meeting to plan the intervention in the affected regions.