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Weekly Report - 27 October 2011 (WR-11-43)
HONDURAS: Supreme court could face coup of its own
The supreme court of justice (TSJ) definitively absolved six senior generals this week from having acted illegally by expelling President Manuel Zelaya from the country on 28 June 2009. Constitutionalists still debate the rights and wrongs of the events of that day but if there is one point on which they are all but unanimously agreed it is that the military acted illegally. The six accused generals claimed that they had behaved out of necessity and the TSJ accepted their argument. Ironically, the ruling comes just as a draft proposal to strip the TSJ of key powers is about to be debated in congress, which some are describing as an institutional coup, or autogolpe.
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