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Article

22 Sep 2016

Author:
Fault Lines, Al Jazeera News

Honduras: Investigations into Berta Caceres’ assassination reveal risks land rights defenders face

 “Honduras: blood and the water”, 21 Sept 2016

In early March 2016, Honduras's most prominent and outspoken environmental activist, Berta Caceres, was killed in her home. While shocking, her murder did not come as a surprise to her colleagues or family. For years, Caceres had received thousands of threats because of her work, fighting for the rights of indigenous communities and for her attempts to stop a hydro-electric dam from being built on indigenous land.  She [Berta] is not the only one, there are so many imprisoned, tortured, persecuted, threatened [says Gustavo Castro, activist]…Fault Lines travels to Honduras to investigate the reasons behind the murder of Berta Caceres and to examine what is fuelling the war against land rights defenders and environmental activists...