Berta Ca'ceres Honduran indigenous Rights Campaigner Murdered : Blog :
Berta Ca'ceres, the Honduran Indigenous and Environmetal Rights Campaigner, has been murdered, barely a week after she was threatened for opposing a Hydroelectric Project. Her death prompted international outrage at the murderous treatment of campaigners in Honduras, as well as a flood of tributes to a prominent and courageous defender of the natural world.
The co-founder of the Council of Indigenous peoples of Honduras was shot dead by gunmen who entered her home in La Esperanza around 1am on Thursday, 3rd of March. Some reports say there were two killers; others suggest 11. They escaped without being identified, after also wounding the Mexican Activist Gustavo Castro Soto.
Last year, Ca'ceres - who is a member of the Lenca
Indigenous Group, the largest in Honduras - was award the Goldman Environmental Prize for her opposition to one of the Central America's biggest hydropower projects, a cascade of four dams in the Gulcarque river basic, including the Agua Zarca Dam.
Four Men have been arrested in connection with the murder of Honduran Indigenous Activist Berta Ca'ceres. Two of these arrested are linked to the Company building a Hydroelectric Dam which Car'ceres had campaigned against.
