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The Honduran government on Oct. 4 gave official recognition to charges that authorities were involved in executing children, as had been charged by human rights organizations. Minister of Government Jorge Hernandez Alcerro said that a report by a commission investigating the killing of children indicated that "some authorities" could be "involved" in the murders. "We have a problem in the country in relation to the violent deaths of children, not in the proportion that has been said before, possibly because we studied those cases between zero and 18 years of age." Others had counted youths up to the age of 23.
The minister didn't give details of the report pending its presentation to President Ricardo Maduro, who would decide "the course of action to investigate those cases."
Maduro created a commission to investigate complaints from organizations, among them Casa Alianza, (see NotiCen, 2001-08-23), the Public Ministry, and...
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