During the night of last Friday, May 22, the commissioner of the National Civil Police of Honduras, Jasser Ramosreported that the victims of a killing recorded on Thursday, May 21 in an African palm farm located in a region honduran very affected by drug trafficking and an agrarian conflict rose to 26.
According to the Honduran authorities, the lifeless body of the last deceased person was found in the African palm farmlike the rest of the corpses. However, so far no injuries or survivors have been reported from this attack, the causes of which are being investigated while those responsible are sought.
This is because multiple armed men dressed in police uniforms They arrived at the farm when the victims were preparing to work in an African palm plantation in the village. Rigorsmunicipality of Trujilloin the department of Colonin it Honduran Caribbeanwhere they went murdered in cold blood.
Given this situation, the Honduran president, Nasry Tito Asfurasaid that “the massacre will not go unpunished” and for that reason his Government deployed a operational control and investigation in Colón, a conflictive area due to drug trafficking and a historic agrarian dispute that has left more than 200 dead in the last two decades.
Tragedy in Rigores
According to what was stated by the news agency EFEhe silence who currently lives in the peasant settlement of Rigors It is not that of the peace of the countryside, but that of absolute disconsolation, because more than ten coffins They have descended to earth accompanied by the heartbreaking screams of mothers, fathers and children of this community.
For many inhabitants of Rigores, reality seems like a nightmaregiven that never, in its many decades of history and agrarian struggle, had this Honduran territory been the scene of a cruelty so excessive Therefore, all its residents stand as the living reflection of a tragedy that has torn dozens of families apart.
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The village of Rigores breaks when witnessing the emptiness and unexpected mourning left behind by loved ones whose only fault was to go out on a daily basis to earn their bread, since, although among the victims there were 44-year-old men, there were also young people who represented the future and hope from their homes in the department of Colón.
However, according to Infobaeone of the most read digital newspapers in Spanish in the world, the tragedy takes on an even more nuanced piercing when looking at the faces of the little ones, since the criminal violence has left a “trail of orphanhood that suffocates the future” of the community in the Honduran municipality of Trujillo.
Trail of orphans
After the tragedy in Rigores, many children were left without their parents because men will no longer walk through the doors of their homes after work. Therefore, the minors have now been left in the care of their grandparentswho no longer have the physical strength to take on the upbringing of the smallest orphans in this municipality.
Faced with this scenario, the families of Rigores have declared themselves in the abandonment more absolute, to the point that urgency It has stopped being legal and has become deeply humanitarian. Therefore, the call of the seniors will try to shake the awareness of the Honduran authorities willing to help them at this time.