Berta Cáceres' family seeks to set precedent with lawsuit against FMO | Video

Tegucigalpa, Jul 7 (EFE).- Bertha Zúñiga, the daughter of Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres, murdered in 2016, said Thursday that she hopes the lawsuit filed against the Dutch Development Bank (FMO) for its co-responsibility in the crime, sets a precedent so that this type of event does not happen again.

"It is very important that these facts do not go unpunished, we do not know what will result (the lawsuit), but it is a great victory and gain that an indigenous people (...) has sued an entity as powerful and with such financial capacity as the FMO," he told Efe Zuniga.

The lawsuit filed on June 28 in Holland against FMO "for complicity in corruption, money laundering, embezzlement and violence", seeks that the Dutch Bank "learns the lesson and corrects its practice in which the rights of indigenous peoples are ignored", said the coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH).

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Date: 07/07/2022 12:00 (UTC)
Source: EFE
Topic: Politics
Environmental issue
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 11 seconds
Reference: 7001181946
Relevance: Normal