One Year Later, Justice Eludes Killers of American Journalist Brad Will

by via Democracy Now

Fri, Oct 26, 2007 8:16AM

Friday, October 26, 2007 : On Saturday friends and family of the murdered journalist Brad Will are gathering in New York at St. Mark's Church to mark the first anniversary of his death. At the time of his death, Brad Will was covering the popular uprising in Oaxaca Mexico. The alleged executioners were identified as two members of the local city hall, two municipal police officers and the former justice of the peace of a nearby town. But to date no one has held been held accountable for his death or the murder of any other activist killed in Oaxaca last year. We speak to investigative reporter John Ross from Mexico City.

On Saturday friends and family of the murdered journalist Brad Will are gathering in New York at St. Mark's Church to mark the first anniversary of his death. At the time of his death, Brad Will was covering the popular uprising in Oaxaca Mexico. In his last dispatch from Oaxaca, the Indymedia reporter wrote about a demonstrator named Alejandro García Hernández who was killed on the barricades. Will wrote “one more death... one more martyr in a dirty war... one more time to cry and hurt... one more time to know power and its ugly head... one more bullet cracks the night.”

On October 27 of last year, Will died at those same barricades. He had his videocamera in his hand. His camera kept recording even after he was shot.