Nelson Willy Mejía Mejía Explained

Nelson Willy Mejía Mejía is a Honduran military officer who worked in the controversial Battalion 3-16 and government employee who is currently Director-General of Immigration.

Military career

Nelson Willy Mejía Mejía was one of at least 19 members of the death squad Intelligence Battalion 3-16 who trained at the School of the Americas (SOA) in the United States. He was also an instructor at the SOA.^[1] The human rights NGO COFADEH stated that during the 1980s, Nelson Willy Mejía Mejía was responsible for "7 thousand profiles" of persecuted Hondurans who later disappeared.^[2]

In February 1998, a judge in Honduras seized Battalion 3-16 files for use in a trial against Nelson Willy Mejía Mejía.^[3]

Civil career

Nelson Willy Mejía Mejía was appointed Director-General of Immigration in the interim government of Roberto Micheletti, following the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.^[4] ^[5]

References

Web site: Hodge. James. Linda Cooper. U.S. continues to train Honduran soldiers. National Catholic Reporter. 2009-07-14. 2009-08-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090822160608/http://ncronline.org/news/global/us-continues-train-honduran-soldiers . 2009-08-22 . live.
Web site: Comunicado. COFADEH. 2009-07-03. 2009-08-05 . es.
Web site: Judge says colonel covered by amnesty. Honduras This Week. 1998-02-23. 2009-08-05. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091020022659/http://www.marrder.com/htw/feb98/national.htm. 2009-10-20.
Web site: Sullivan. Lisa. SOA Watch Accompanying Resistance in Honduras. School of the Americas Watch. 2009-07-08. 2009-08-05. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091008125622/http://soaw.org/presente/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223&Itemid=74. 2009-10-08.
Web site: Reanudan venta de citas para emisión de pasaportes . 2009-07-07 . 2009-08-03 . La Tribuna . es . https://web.archive.org/web/20101118085225/http://www.latribuna.hn/web2.0/?p=17208 . 2010-11-18 . dead .