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The Horcones Massacre (Masacre Los Horcones) was a series of killings centered on the Los Horcones ranch in the department of Olancho, Honduras, in June 1975, in which up to 15 religious leaders, campesinos and students were killed, by the military,〔 in a backlash against peasant land grabs in this frontier region. Major Jose Enrique Chinchilla, Lieutenant Benjamin Plata, Manuel Zelaya and Carlos Bahr were convicted for involvement the massacre. Manuel Zelaya is the father of Manuel Zelaya, later president of Honduras. ==Events== Among those killed were Father Iván Betancourt, a visiting Colombian priest working in areas where agrarian reform cooperatives were organizing, and Father Michael Jerome Zypher (Padre Casimiro), a priest visiting from Wisconsin, USA, who was killed during an interrogation. The bodies of five farmers were burned alive in a bread oven. The bodies of two priests were castrated and severely mutilated. Two women were thrown in the well alive before the shaft was dynamited.〔Robert Gregory Williams: Export agriculture and the crisis in Central America, p. 126〕 According to journalist and author Wendy Griffin, "The Massacre of Los Horcones was seen as a clash between the interests of large landowners and the social activism of the church of the time." After the bodies were found, the federal government ordered all priests, monks, and nuns to leave the area for their own safety. One of the victims was Máximo Aguilera, the father of Christian Democratic Party congressman Lucas Aguilera. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Los Horcones massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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