The lifeless body of a person, which The death toll rose to 20.was found on the farm, like the rest of the victims, according to the authorities, who have not reported any injuries or survivors of this attack, whose causes are being investigated and whose perpetrators are sought.
The early morning of May 21, armed men dressed in police uniforms They arrived at the farm when the victims were preparing to work on a plantation, in the village of Rigores, in Trujillo, Colón, in the Honduran Caribbean.
Honduran President Nasry “Tito” Asfura said that the massacre “will not go unpunished” and announced a joint deployment of security forces in Colón, a conflictive area due to drug trafficking and a historic agrarian dispute that has left some 200 dead in recent decades.
So far, the authorities investigating the massacre They have no clues about those responsible for the multiple murderamong whose victims there are three minors between 14 and 16 years old, and three women who were sisters.
“As a State we are working so that justice comes,” emphasized Asfura, who stressed that His Government is going to “face this scourge without fear and with force.”
At least 11 of the 20 victims began to be buried in a cemetery in Rigores, amid the tears and demands for justice from their relatives.
The land dispute in Colón dates back to the sale of properties granted to peasants through agrarian reform, half a century ago, to large agricultural businessmen, lands that the new generations claim.
According to local authorities, this historic agrarian conflict has worsened in recent years due to the infiltration of drug trafficking and criminal gangs, in addition to political interference in the area.
“I can’t tell you what happened,” Armando Suchite, father of Elmer and Wilmer Suchite, 25 and 22 years old, murdered in Thursday’s attack, told EFE, since both “They were just working”.