PBI-Honduras has posted: “Yesterday [June 5] we visited the Museum Against Forgetting in Amarateca, located in a property used as a torture center during the National Security Doctrine in the 1980s, redefining it as a space for memory and reflection. From PBI, we highlight the work of the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras [COFADEH] to reclaim the memory of the victims of human rights violations, especially the crimes of torture and forced disappearance.”
On December 9, 2023, Defensoresenlinea.com posted: “The opening of the first phase of the Museum Against Oblivion, in the Amarateca Valley, Francisco Morazán, by the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), constitutes a space for reflection, analysis and learning of the historical memory of the disappeared and murdered political detainees of the decade of the 80s.”
That article further notes: “One of the survivors of persecution and torture during the time of state terrorism in Honduras was the leader of the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP) of the municipal directorate and General Coordinator of the Honduran Communal Movement, Jesús Chávez. Chávez described the opening of the Museum Against Oblivion as an extraordinary action and of great recognition to the heroes and martyrs fallen, kidnapped and tortured by the Honduran Armed Forces (FFAA) and by the 3-16 battalion.”
At the opening of the Museum, COFADEH general coordinator Berta Oliva commented: “This is a place of memory, it is a meeting place, a place of life. Memory is not a word, memory is resistance, memory is teaching, memory is continuity.”
PBI-Honduras has a longstanding relationship with COFAEDH.
