Soldiers and
police repress Honduran university students
TEGUCIGALPA,
August 5.— Police and soldiers violently removed
thousands of university students who were blocking a
street in the Honduran capital to demand the return
of constitutional President Manuel Zelaya on
Wednesday, journalists from the AFP reported.
The students were suppressed by riot police, who
cordoned off the area minutes after the blockade
began and launched tear gas and water jets from a
tank. The young people took refuge in the Ciudad
Universitaria, where they were followed and beaten
by police.
"We left with our hands in the air, along with
the vice chancellor, an emblematic figure in the
university, and they attacked us with clubs and
threw us to the ground," the president of the
University Leadership Board, Olvin Rodríguez, said.
(SE)
Translated by Granma International
