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HRD Attack

Manuel Milla Gregorio Chávez Peasant Project

Incident date
20 Jun 2016
Date accuracy
All Correct
Male
Affected community's leader or member
Killings
Target: Individual
Location of Incident: Honduras
Dinant Honduras Palm trees & oil

Sources

Alan Reyneri Martínez Pérez (19) and Manuel Milla (25), members of the “Gregorio Chávez” Peasant Project of Panamá Community, Trujillo, Colón, were killed on 20th of June 2016. Denis Mejía allegedly approached the leaders and without any words started shooting at them. After doing this, he run to Finca Paso Aguan, a property of Corporación Dinant. The young people were transferred to Tocoa´s Hospital, but one of them died on the way, and the other one died at the hospital. Denis Mejía, together with other people wearing hoods, allegedly visited the community many times, supervising the houses of community leaders. The “Gregorio Chávez” Peasant Project started in 2012, when its leader, Gregorio Chávez was murdered. “Goyo”, as they called him, was a religious leader and defender of the right to land, and was killed at Finca Paso Aguán, guarded by private security guards of oil palm producer Miguel Facussé. In response to this, the population decided to recover the lands, since this was not the first murder there, but they were violently evicted once and again and for a year now, the lands have remained under the custody of private and military guards surrounding the region. Fifteen days before the murder, the two young men started to recover a piece of land next to the community, which is occupied by 123 families.