Napoleón Nassar Herrera

Honduran military officer

Napoleón Nazar Herrera (pronounced: Nassar) is a Honduran military officer who worked in the controversial Battalion 3–16^[1]^[2] who successively became leader of the General Department of Criminal Investigation (DGIC),^[3] high Commissioner of Police for the north-west region in the Manuel Zelaya government,^[2] and one of the Secretary of Security's spokespeople in the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti.^[4]^[5]

Civil career

As of late 2005, during the Ricardo Maduro presidency, Nazar was leader of the General Department of Criminal Investigation (DGIC).^[3] 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.^[3]

During the Manuel Zelaya presidency, Nazar was high Commissioner of Police for the north-west region.^[1]^[2]

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 ((in Spanish): 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]

References

^ ^a ^b Holland, Clifton L. (June 2006). "Honduras – Human Rights Workers Denounce Battalion 3–16 Participation in Zelaya Government" (PDF). Mesoamérica Institute for Central American Studies. Archived from the original (pdf) on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras (February 2007). "Hnd – Solicitan al Presidente Zelaya la destitución de integrantes del Batallón 3–16 nombrados en el Ministerio del Interior". Nizkor. Archived from the original on 24 September 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Community Member Shot – Action Alert". Global Exchange. 19 June 2005. Archived from the original on 3 December 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
^ ^a ^b Leiva, Noe (2 August 2009). "No se avizora el fin de la crisis hondureña". El Nuevo Herald/AFP. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
^ ^a ^b Mejía, Lilian; Mauricio Pérez; Carlos Girón (18 July 2009). "Pobladores Exigen Nueva Ley De Minería: 71 Detenidos Y 12 Heridos En Batalla Campal" (in Spanish). MAC: Mines and Communities. Archived from the original on 17 September 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2009.