The Front originated as a popular social movement which used massive civil disobedience[3][4] to support the restoration of Zelaya in replacement of the de facto President Roberto Micheletti, whose government was perceived as a dictatorship in existence since 28 June 2009, the 2009 Honduran coup d'état.
Human Rights Watch reported in July 2010 that under Lobo Sosa "at least eight journalists and ten members of the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP)" had been killed.
[13] In response to the San José mediation meeting in Costa Rica, the National Resistance Front stated its opposition to immunity for those who had carried out the coup d'état.
Two of the leaders of the National Resistance Front, Juan Barahona and Rafael Alegría [fr], were briefly detained and later released by police during a demonstration against the coup d'état on 31 July 2009.
Several alleged killings took place in the middle of the night, including that of union leader and Democratic Unification Party member Roger Bados.
According to Human Rights Watch in July 2010, "at least eight journalists and ten members of the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) ... have been killed since President Lobo assumed power on January 27, 2010.