Via JMG: HONDURAS: Activists March On Attorney General Over Epidemic Of Gay Murders

Globovision reports that 22 LGBT people have been murdered so far this year in Honduras. Five were murdered this month alone. Via Google Translate:

Members of the gay community of Honduras on Monday marched to the Attorney General to clarify and justice for the murder of about 22 companions so far in 2013, five of them in the last month. "We demand justice for cases of our colleagues who have been killed," said journalist José Zambrano, one of the leaders of the Association for a Better Life in Honduras (APUVIMEH), who participated in the march, which ended in front of the headquarters of the Special Prosecutor for crimes against life, an office which was created in August.

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Labels: Central America, hate crimes, Honduras, murder

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