Please write to Canadian Minister of State Peter Kent urging and end to military violence and a return to democracy in Honduras.

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Your Message: Dear Minister Kent; Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was forced into exile following a military coup in the country on June 28, returned to Honduras on Monday afternoon, September 21. The coup regime is responding with a brutal and violent crackdown on the Honduran democratic movement. Despite this escalation of violence, Canada remains one of the only countries that has yet to act effectively to isolate the coup regime. Canada must take a strong stand for democracy and against the military coup. I ask that the Canadian government: • call on the coup leaders to order the immediate return of the Honduran military and police forces to their barracks; • declare its unconditional and public support for the immediate return of the entire constitutional government of President Zelaya; • announce publicly that Canada will not recognize the results of the November 2009 elections if the coup regime is still in place; • announce publicly that the coup perpetrators will be held responsible for their actions under international law; and • institute concrete and targeted economic, military and diplomatic sanctions against the coup perpetrators. Please act immediately to stop the violence and restore democracy in Honduras. cc: Graeme Clark, Canadian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States