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The last moments of Bradley Roland Will
By: Sameer Padania
Posted: Sep 17 07
Witnessed: 8242 times
Regions: Mexico
Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression
Tags: journalist, Mexico, oaxaca
Journalism seems like a precarious profession to practice in Mexico. It's ranked by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) as one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist.
The latest tragic example of this came on Friday 27th October, 2006, in the southern state of Oaxaca, with the shooting of Brad Will. Brad was in Oaxaca as a journalist for New York City Indymedia, trying to get stories out about the protests in Oaxaca. While filming skirmishes between paramilitaries and protesters in Santa Lucia on Friday afternoon, Brad was shot in the abdomen and neck, and died from his injuries, prompting the CPJ to call on the government to investigate Will's death. Now Indymedia has released the tape that was in Brad's video camera when he was shot.
It's a sixteen-minute video with English subtitles, and beware, the last minute (from 15′30) is very difficult to watch.
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