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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Cassandra van Douveren in Rigores, Honduras. Photographs by Fritz Pinnow

‘Danger no longer only comes from the hitmen, but from the state’: the Honduran farmers labelled terrorists for protecting their land

a man wearing a red shirt and faded baseball cap holding out two hands full of reddy brown seeds from an oil palm
A worker from the Tranvía cooperative holding seeds of the oil palm, Bajo Aguán, Honduras. Photograph: Fritz Pinnow

Sitting on the back of the motorcycle, 15-year-old Orlean* heard gunshots. A moment later, the bike crashed. His uncle and two cousins fell to the ground dead. Orlean fled into the dense green forest of the palm oil farm and rushed along the dirt road until he was home.

He survived a massacre, one of only three who did.

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