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Oaxaca Remembers Brad Will

by MexicoReporter | October 29, 2007 at 06:51 am

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Oaxaca Remembers Brad Will

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

As many as 20,000 people gathered in Oaxaca City on Saturday this weekend to remember Brad Will, the American journalist shot dead a year ago.

The marchers also walked in memory of the Oaxacan teacher Alonso Fabian who was shot dead the same day during clashes between teachers and members of the APPO, and municipal police and government forces.

Police sources told press agency EFE that 20,000 people marched from the suburban municipalities of Santo Lucia and San Bartolo Coyotepec to the centre of Oaxaca City.

Bra Will was shot dead by an as yet unknown assailant on October 27th 2006 whilst covering the clashes in Oaxaca City for Indymedia. Justice has yet to be served.

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Brian A Kennedy

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at 07:14 on October 29th, 2007

MexicoReporter, thanks for this. I know a few people who were good friends of Brad's -- apparently he was a hell of a guy.

ryan

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at 07:20 on October 29th, 2007

MexicoReporter, good report on this tragic anniversary.

Kaitlin

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at 10:53 on October 29th, 2007

MexicoReporter, thanks for following the Brad Will story; great stuff.

thinktank

at 20:23 on October 29th, 2007

Brad is alive in all of us... we just might have to take his lead... and step forward

thinktank

at 20:25 on October 29th, 2007

lets get together, agree on some basics, and make change.

Benjamin Melançon

at 14:35 on October 31st, 2007

Attackers not so unknown.

Solidarity on all the sentiments though.

Brad Will’s Assassins, identified by El Universal: Juan Carlos Soriano Velasco (red tshirt), a police officer known as “the Grasshopper”; Manuel Aguilar (dark jacket), city personnel director; and public safety chief Avel Santiago Zárate (red shirt)

http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2223.html