URGENT ACTION

Hunger Strike by Indigenous and Garifuna People in Tegucigalpa,

Honduras

Friday, May 9, 1997 11:00 p.m Mountain Time

For over 57 hours, more than 90 Indigenous and Garifuna people are on

a HUNGER STRIKE for over 57 hours, calling for a return of indigenous

lands, justice in the most recent political assasinations of

indigenous leaders and end to repression. This HUNGER STRIKE is

taking place in front of the Presidential House in Tegucigalpa,

Honduras as part of a pilgramage of 3,000+ Indigenous and Garifuna

people who have traveled to the captial from all over the country.

Members of the pilgramage are committed to continue their call for

land and justice, even in the face of harassment, repression,

intimidation and threats on the part of the Honduran government.

YOUR SOLIDARITY IS DESPERATELY NEEDED!

Please send faxes to:

President Carlos Roberto Reina (504) 37-82-37

and

Eduardo Villanueva

Special Inspector of Ethnic People (504) 39-57-17

Calling for the completion of the demands of the Indigenous and

Garifuna people and an immediate peaceful resolution to the

pilgramage.

Financial contributions and donations of food for the more than

3000 supporters encamped at the Presidencial Palace can be designated

to Confederacion de Pueblos Autoctonos de Honduras (CONPAH) at CONPAH

Aptdo. 20.585 Comayaguela, M.D.C. Honduras; tel. (504) 25-26-12.

For more information, please see our web page at:

www.ibw.com.ni/~cgenica

or contact us by email at either conpah%conpah@sdnhon.org.hn

or andres%acceso@sdnhon.org.hn