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Honduras is the most murderous mission in the world. Someone dies | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
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The capital is home to a unique organisation. The People's Funeral | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
Service helps poor families when they lose a loved one where every | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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Another day, another death. A community struggles to understand | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
the killing of a young man, just one of 20 people to meet a violent | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
end every day in Honduras. This man was gunned down to the day before | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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as he dropped his children off at school. He was just 26 years old. | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
His funeral has been funded by the People's Funeral Service, set up by | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 122 seconds | :01:54. | :03:56. | |
the mayor of Tegucigalpa. This man It is certainly in demand. In | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Honduras a toxic mix of guns, gangs and corruption has engineered the | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
highest homicide rate in the world, over a key times that of most | :04:06. | :04:16. | |
European countries. -- 80. The shade is will come under a tropical | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
sun. This is no picnic. It is the city's morgue. All of these people | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
are waiting for the body of a loved one to be released for burial. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Johnny and his colleagues from the People's Funeral Service are here | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
often and most of those Broughton have died of a violent death | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
somewhere in a Tegucigalpa. -- brought in. There is no shortage of | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
them. This couple are waiting for news about the remains of a | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
brother-in-law. They say he was shot in a dispute with a neighbour | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
and died this morning in hospital. It is another example of the | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
everyday instance of gun violence in the country. Nearly seven has | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
and 50,000 illegal firearms our own. Stay strong, says Tony, God will | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
help you. -- Johnny. The People's Funeral Service does not just help | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
the families of victims of violence. At the funeral home of the founder | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
is visiting. The mayor of Tegucigalpa is the President of the | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
ruling party. He is teasingly called Richard Gere and he has a | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
celebrity author as he confronts the mourners. This is a wake for | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
this lady. The mayor learns that she died from complications in | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
hospital. She was just 51 and sold sweets on the steps of a local | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
church. For families like this one made an impression on the mayor in | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
2005. I was running for mayor. One day I encountered a little child, | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
crying from the door of his house. I went to him and asked him what | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
happened. My mother left me. I asked the neighbour what was going | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
on. They told me that she took her television set to a porn shop to | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
get some money to put his father to rest. To get a coffin and some | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
things. I said this is something that is happening every day in the | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
capital. We have to do something about it. And then I started | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
promoting that if I became mayor we would have funeral homes to give | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
dignity to the poorest people of the city. It in a culture where | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
community ties are strong that may mean taking everything they needed | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
for a way. With an empty coffin on board, the pick up heads to the | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
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gunshot victim. We joined them later. His family were taking him | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
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We are heading north now behind the pick-up drug it has the coffin on | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
top. As you come off out of the city the scenery begins to change. | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
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It becomes poorer. There are many The body in the coffin is that of | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
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Ramon. -- Roman Orlando Borella. We It was just yesterday her son was | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
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Do you have any idea who may be Friends and family will keep a | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
vigil here through the night. In the morning we will need them at | :09:01. | :09:11. | |
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the cemetery for their sick's We have come back to the funeral | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
home here and we find another wake going on. This is another young man | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
who is 19 years old. Apparently killed in a drive-by shooting. He | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
was not the only one to die, somebody else died with him. I | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
asked his uncle if these kinds of killings happen often in the area | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
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What is it like living with that kind of fear? Every day of your | :10:04. | :10:14. | |
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It is not only poor people who are being killed in the country. The | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
campus of the National University feels very different to the poor | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
areas of the capital. The students relax here with their friends and | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
could be anywhere. These young people are not safe either. Last | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
year in October, Honduras was shocked by the killing of two | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
students, allegedly at the hands of the police. The mother of one of | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
the victims is a vector of the university. Her son and his friend | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
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were shot as they drove home from a There was a huge reaction from | :12:52. | :13:02. | |
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Honduras people when this happened So far no office has been charged | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
in relation to the killings, but they did put police reform right at | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
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the top of the political agenda in Honduras. This is one of hundreds. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
For a long time a lot of us working in human rights has said, no-one | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
can do this, no-one can come into the communities armed like this and | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
hunt young people down and kill them. No-one can do this except | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
police officers. I asked the mayor of Tegucigalpa what the national | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
government is doing about police reform. We have to purify the | :14:23. | :14:32. | |
police as quickly as possible. We cannot demotivated t | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
It will not be easy. There are too many links between police and other | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
things. You have to take it in a way that the people doing it don't | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
lose their lives because they are going. Something needs to be done. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Everything is conscious about it. The Government is conscious about | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
it. I am conscious about it but you have to do it the right weight in | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
order that it doesn't hit you back stronger. | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
Cleaning up the police is critical. The capital's many small business | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
owners feel vulnerable as if they have no protection. One a young | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
Honduran who wants to remain anonymous tells us what happened at | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
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his parents' restaurant last year. Someone came in. They hit two | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
clients. One died. One survive but has a problem with his late. One of | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
them was captured one month later and he was actually a policeman in | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
Yes. But he came in his uniform? Yes, in his uniform. You don't know | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
if you can trust in the police. does that make you feel as a young | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
person here? Hopeless. Honduras is a really nice country and we have | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
really nice people, hard-working people. But the situation that | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
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really difficult. In two or three years I will be gone. My sister is | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
leaving it to Canada this year. My other brother, maybe in five years | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
he will move to Panama. They want to keep you safe? They want me to | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
go out of Honduras because the situation is getting worse every | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
day. We cannot trust anybody. Only family. You look really depressed | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
as you are telling me this story. Now you open the newspaper and | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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there is best everywhere. -- death. Tegucigalpa looks almost trampled | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
from up here, the highest point overlooking the city. -- tranquil. | :16:57. | :17:06. | |
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But at street level, extreme levels of violence have become endemic. In | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
2009 a military coup against President Manuel Zelaya sparked a | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
wave of political killings. But the murder rate had already begun to | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
rise rapidly. In fact it has doubled since 2005. Many blame | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
Mexico's drug war, which has forced the cartel's down into Central | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
America. Around 80% of cocaine smuggling flights from the south | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
now touchdown in Honduras before moving to markets in the United | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
States and Europe. You have a country in which corruption is | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
deeply set at all levels. This is corruption on the one hand, and | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
then you have drug-related gang as well involved in getting into the | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
police and the military. And then you have a coup d'etat that tells a | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
place that it is absolutely OK to go above the law, to break the law. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
You have the situation that we Irene now. It is not new. This is | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
not caused by the coup. -- that we are in. But it has been worsened by | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
it. Radio Globo is firmly identified with the anti-coup | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
political opposition in Honduras. Its journalists follow a radical | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
agenda. They talk of land rights, corruption and the links between | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
authorities and violent crime. But talk comes at a price. This is one | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
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of Radio Globo's presenters. She is 23 Honduran journalists have been | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
murdered since 2010. Assassins have also killed lawyers, gay and | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
lesbian campaigners, and political activists. The People's Funeral | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
Service sees only victims who are poor. It is simple humanity, | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
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Today with the help of the team, Ramon is being played in his final | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
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Shot in the street, he died a sudden and savage death, one of | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
that or all the hallmarks of a targeted assassination. Nobody | :20:39. | :20:46. |