Weekly Report - 2 September 2003

Human rights, environmental and religious organisations in the violence-plagued state of Olancho are accusing the administration of President Ricardo Maduro of permitting an atmosphere of impunity that has led to the death of environmental activists. The national human rights organisation Cofadeh says wealthy landowners, logging companies and industrialists use death threats and murder to intimidate Olancho citizens who protest illegal logging and dam construction.