Video: Isis Obed Murillo, 19, Shot Dead At Honduras Coup Protests
6 July 2009, 1:15 PM. By Cindy Casares
Isis Obed Murillo, 19, was shot to death by a Honduran soldier at the Tegucigalpa airport while he waited for the return of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya on Sunday. Shocking video was taken of his last moments of life in the melee that was the protest and the above photo was posted on Twitter. Meanwhile, Zelaya spoke to Hondurans from the air while military planes blocked his landing, “[Acting president Roberto] Micheletti, the new tyrant of Honduras, must understand that you enter the Presidential Palace through the front door with the vote of the people and not with the police repressing people. He has shamed Honduras.”
Murillo’s death came after a gunshot to the head while he waited with a group of about 30,000 citizen coup protesters who arrived, some wearing Ché t-shirts, after acting president Roberto Micheletti told Zelaya he had permission to return to Honduras. Later Micheletti announced that he would arrest Zelaya upon his return and, finally, denied him entry when he attempted to land. In the below video, confused protesters scramble to carry the bleeding Murillo to a vehicle that can get him to the hospital and one man, covered in Murillo’s blood, very composedly says that this is what Micheletti’s wants–for his army to shoot civilians. It’s kind of strange he was so camera-ready during such an ordeal.
The Organization of American States, (consisting of 34 countries), had already voted unanimously Saturday night, (with the exception of Honduras who abstained), to expel Honduras in reaction to last week’s military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Honduran military authorities shut the airport today to avoid another attempted return by Zelaya.
UPDATE: AL JAZEERA REPORTS ANOTHER CIVILIAN, A TEN YEAR-OLD CHILD, WAS KILLED DURING THE PROTEST. DEVELOPING.
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It saddens me that this happened. It also troubles me how almost every nation is in agreement with Hugo Chavez. Zelaya, is a crook and has ruined Honduras. He attempted to illegaly change the constitution to allow more term limits. Exactly, as Chavez/Venezuela, Morales/Bolivia, Ortega/Nicaragua, and Casto/Cubas has done.
If Venezuelans, Bolivians, Nicaraguans, Cubans, etc., had done what Hondurans have, they would not be where they are now…
What’s sad is having the money holders, the rich, the selfish, the corrupt and the unjust ruling OUR nation. The people of Honduras have a RIGHT by god and by law to have their voice heard. What part of the constitution says that only the rich have a right to vote? What part of the constitution says only the powerful will decide? What part of the constitution states that the poor, the wanting and the meager are not competent to decide upon their very lives? I want to know what force of law or god has given these men the right to decide over the fate of millions of Hondurans! To decide who speaks and who doesnt, and to perpetuate the unjust treatment to me and my people. I want Mr Michelletti to remember just who The People are, and what we stand for. Our voices must be heard, and they WILL be heard. No more should The People bleed for these satists… but if every last drop of blood in MY body must be spent for this purpose, then it shall!
my sentiments exactly! …and this is the hope…to be heard…i feel there is more of a possibility with micheletti and the present constitution in power than with zelaya and his NEW written constitution. unfortunately zelaya has used the poor, pretending to care, in order to gain power and will continue to use them, for self-serving purposes, until he doesn’t need them anymore…just like his mentor chavez has done…honduras needs to come together for the betterment of all its citizens and i feel and hope that this is the beginning for a better and more balanced democracy…
First of all Im deeply saddened to see a fellow honduran die, no conflict is worth the loss of human life!
I couldnt help hear the protesters scream that the cardenal rodriguez and the Pastor evelio reyes had killed him. On saturday both the catholic and evangelical churches ask mel zelaya to delay his attempts to return to the country, fearing confrontations would get ugly….now we are seeing the results!
The protestors were trying to break through the fences to reach the runway of the airport, obviously things would get ugly. Shame on u mel zelya for attempting to use these protestors as a human shield for your arrival. God knows what going on in that cocked up head of his!
Most comments here on Gua. seem to favor Roberto Micheletti’s side of the worsening mess in Honduras. Is this representative of opinion among US hispanics in general? Or does Guanabee have readers among the Honduran middle and upper-middle classes?
I’d love to see an analysis of the provenance of commenter ip addresses.
x111e7thst , I wrote the first comment. I am a first generation Hondu-American. I am not in favor of Micheletti’s side, but rather the elected Honduran government. As it stands, Micheletti will step down in Jan after the candidate is elected in November. I think the majority of media have reported Zelaya’s position, and or military coup.
I hope this is another scam from Venezuelan media covering in favor of Zelaya. Telesur, one of Chavez sources is creating a picture of Zelaya as a “victim,” and unfortunately many of you are falling into the trap. If this individual is indeed dead, blame Zelaya because he is telling his supporters to clear the runway for him to land even if this mean disobeying the rules. Please inform yourselves before you call Micheletti a tyrant; if that is what you believe you totally ignore what is really happening in Honduras. If you want to call Micheletti something, call him a hero because he is trying to protect Honduras from another Castro and Chavez government. In other words, a country without democracy and freedom. Stay out or learn the facts! And for Pete’s sake, stop calling it a coup, the country is not being ruled by the army, it is being governed by the government and if they ousted Zelaya is because he is the biggest CROOK and has been breaking the law of Honduras. Again learn the truth, people!
Sorry, but that sounds soooo 70′ies.. no hero needs to take up armed resistance, that’s barbaric. A government that wasn’t elected is not democratic, at least not in the occidental part of the world. That’s just fact, no crookness of no president can change that. That Mel-guy was still elected and elected presidents - as criminal as they might be (that’s for a court to declare), are overthrown by democratic elections in the civilized part of the world, which I thought Latin America was.
/Colombian, tired of armed so called heroes
Zelaya was elected, and through his manipuations was going to illegally change the constitution to run again. Then buy/rig the election to rul agin. That is is not Democracy… I am not aware of any impeachment process in Honduras. I would have preferred that to happen. The current President is an INTERIM President, spelled out in the Constitution, until the November election and the Jan. 2010 inauguration.
I consider myself a middle class honduras, but honestly at the core this zelaya issue is not about social class, it is about a false populist who used the rich vs poor talk to try to stay in power. Along the way he broke the law and showed no respect for the other branches of the government. Personally im not specifically a michelletti supporter, but I aplaud his resistance, and that of congress and the judicial branch against a tryrant in tranning.
Mr. Murillo was in front of some guy masked with a red bandana who was carrying a .38 gun, this guy had shoot twice and hide the gun because the tv cameras, the next time he shoot, Murillo raised from the floor because the army shots at the same time the guy was shooting again.
I saw when his bullet hit Murillo from behind his head.
At least he will never know who killed him.
The gunman mixed in the riot crowd when trying to take Murillo to an ambulance. Never see him again. Two more men were with him and both carried guns.
I wish to make this public because this is a lies war, but in the end the truth will prevail.