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Between 2021 and September 2024, there have been nearly 13,000 violent deaths, a situation that has been aggravated by constant massacres, according to Conadeh.
Violence in Honduras left more than 104,000 people dead between January 2000 and September 2024, the National Commissioner for Human Rights ( Conadeh ) reported on Tuesday.
In a statement, Conadeh also noted that “the violence in the country is of such magnitude that between 2000 and 2010 violent deaths totaled 39,346 people .
The report adds that the situation of violence against physical integrity and life worsened between 2011 and 2020, with 52,393 people killed in violent circumstances.
“Between 2021 and September 2024, there have been nearly 13,000 violent deaths , a situation that has been aggravated by constant massacres, indicating that rampant homicidal violence has not been stopped despite the measures adopted, which include a state of emergency imposed since December 2022,” he stressed.
In addition, CONADEH urged Honduran authorities to bring forensic medicine services closer to communities in order to reduce impunity rates, which exceed 90% in crimes against life in the country, and to prevent the right of victims’ families to know the truth from being violated.
According to the humanitarian organization, the current situation in the country means that the Honduran people are not only facing an unprecedented economic crisis , but are also struggling with a public insecurity crisis due to the number of violent deaths reported in various regions of the country.
High impunity in Honduras
According to the deputy delegate of CONADEH, Ricardo López, one factor that may be influencing the high rate of impunity is “the intolerance of people when their relative dies, by not allowing the removal of the body so that the authorities can perform the corresponding autopsy.”
Another ingredient that would be “contributing” to the high rates of impunity, “is that some crimes are committed in communities far from where the Forensic Medicine facilities are located,” dependent on the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
When a body is taken to the Forensic Medicine Department for an autopsy, relatives then have to figure out how to return to their communities, often far away, and bury the body of the deceased, Lopez said.
He added that impunity not only creates a feeling of helplessness in the relatives, but is also an “open window that encourages people who commit these types of crimes against life to continue committing them.”
