Indymedia activist and mexican teacher killed in Oaxaca

William Bradley Roland, aka Brad Will, a U.S. journalist and camerman, was shot and killed yesterday in Oaxaca, Mexico, by paramiliaries affiliated with the PRI, the former Mexican ruling party. Will was in Oaxaca covering the continued resistance of teachers and other workers against the PRI-controlled government of the State of Oaxaca. According to reports from New York City Independent Media Center and La Jornada, Will, 36, was shot at the Santa Lucia Barricade from a distance of 30-40 meters in the pit of the stomach by plainclothes paramilitaries and died while enroute to the Red Cross.

More information

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

http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/5821

http://www.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/849305.shtml

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/77757.html

http://portland.indymedia.org/

http://de.indymedia.org/2006/10/160286.shtml

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