Napoleón Nassar Herrera Explained

Napoleón Nazar Herrera (pronounced: Nassar) is a Honduran military officer who worked in the controversial Battalion 3–16[1] who successively became leader of the General Department of Criminal Investigation (DGIC), high Commissioner of Police for the north-west region in the Manuel Zelaya government, and one of the Secretary of Security's spokespeople in the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti.

Civil career

As of late 2005, during the Ricardo Maduro presidency, Nazar was leader of the General Department of Criminal Investigation (DGIC).[2] On 5 June 2005, agents from the DGIC put a community leader who had been stabbed and wounded on his face, neck, back, sides and hands by paramilitaries, Feliciano Pineda, into chains and imprisoned him in Gracias.

During the Manuel Zelaya presidency, Nazar was high Commissioner of Police for the north-west region.[3]

In the government of Roberto Micheletti following the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Nazar became one of the Secretary of Security's spokespeople for communicating with protestors (: uno de los designados por la Secretaría de Seguridad para el diálogo).[4] Following police violence against thousands of demonstrators from the Copán and Santa Bárbara regions campaigning on 17 July 2009 for a new law about mineral resources, Nazar stated that for anyone who felt aggrieved, prosecutors and human rights exist.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Holland. Clifton L.. Honduras – Human Rights Workers Denounce Battalion 3–16 Participation in Zelaya Government. Mesoamérica Institute for Central American Studies. June 2006. pdf. 3 August 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720160941/http://www.mesoamericaonline.net/MES0_ARCHIVES/Countries/Hond/HOJUN06.pdf. 20 July 2011. dead.
  2. Web site: Community Member Shot – Action Alert. Global Exchange. 19 June 2005. 8 August 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20081203160523/http://globalexchange.org/countries/americas/honduras/3292.html. 3 December 2008. live.
  3. Web site: Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras. Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras. Hnd – Solicitan al Presidente Zelaya la destitución de integrantes del Batallón 3–16 nombrados en el Ministerio del Interior. Nizkor. February 2007. 7 August 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090924080706/http://www.radionizkor.org/honduras/. 24 September 2009. live.
  4. Web site: Leiva. Noe. No se avizora el fin de la crisis hondureña. El Nuevo Herald/AFP. 2 August 2009. 7 August 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090805142325/http://www.elnuevoherald.com/ultimas-noticias/story/510138.html. 5 August 2009. live.
  5. Web site: Mejía. Lilian. Mauricio Pérez. Carlos Girón. Pobladores Exigen Nueva Ley De Minería: 71 Detenidos Y 12 Heridos En Batalla Campal. MAC: Mines and Communities. 18 July 2009. 7 August 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090917130401/http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=2064. 17 September 2009. live. es.

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