German
Enamorado, Fiscal de Derechos Humanos aseguró a Associated Press que
las mujeres muertas en un operativo de la DEA en La Mosquitia no estaban
embarazadas y que la trayectoria de los disparos en los cuerpos de los
muertos, indica que los
disparos fueron hechos horizontalmente, probablemente desde tierra.
Además
asegura que en la investigación no se tuvo acceso ni a los agentes de
la DEA ni a las armas que usaron el día del operativo. Pego abajo la
nota en inglés publicada por ABC NEWS.
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By ALBERTO ARCE Associated
Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
September 8, 2012 (AP)
An official probe determined that two victims
of a shooting during a joint U.S.-Honduran anti-drug operation were not
pregnant and none of the gunfire that killed anyone came from a law-enforcement
helicopter, a government investigator said Friday, contradicting witness
statements and claims by human rights groups.
Four people
in all were killed during the May raid in the Mosquitia region, and local
people claimed they were innocent civilians traveling a river at night.
Honduran police said the people killed were in a boat that fired on
authorities. The DEA said none of its agents fired in the incident.
German
Enamorado, chief of Honduras' Office of Human Rights, said Friday that two female
victims were not pregnant as witnesses had reported.
Enamorado
also said forensic tests show the bullets that hit the four people killed were
fired horizontally, not from above. In addition, the slugs were from
lower-caliber bullets used by M-16 rifles and not the heavier weapon mounted on
the helicopter, he said.
Enamorado
said state investigators had spoken with all the Honduran officers involved in
the operation and performed forensic analysis of 26 of the 29 firearms present
at the time of the shooting. He said the DEA had not allowed Honduran
investigators access to the DEA agents who were present or their guns.
The shooting
erupted during Operation Yunque, a joint initiative using six U.S. helicopters
and a special team of DEA agents in addition to the Honduran police.
Operation
Yunque led to the shooting of at least seven people during the three months it
was carried out, including at least one fatally shot by DEA agents who were
approaching a crashed plane they suspected was carrying drugs.
The operation
has been the object of intense criticism in Honduras.
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