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Updated: January 17, 2023

Honduran Activists Demand Action After Series Of Killings

By Quadri Adejumo
January 17, 2023
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The killing of two Honduran water defenders this month has sparked international outrage, with the UN calling for an investigation.

The two deceased Aly Dominguez, and Jairo Bonilla, were members of the Guapinol water defenders movement, organising to protect their rivers from a controversial open-pit iron oxide mining project in Carlos Escaleras National Park.

In recent years, several activists have been killed in unclear circumstances amid community opposition to the mine.

The families of Dominguez and Bonilla say they were killed by unidentified gunmen after weeks of threats related to their activism.

Reinaldo Dominguez, Aly’s brother, told Al Jazeera that; “We need action here. The public ministry needs to investigate and put arrest warrants out for the armed groups.”

The Honduran human rights secretariat also condemned the killing of Dominguez and Bonilla and called for a transparent investigation.