Mexican lawyer Gilberto Lopéz Giménez proclaims that international pressure is essential for justice in the case of the assassination of American journalist Brad Will. Will was killed on 26th October 2006.
He was reporting for Indymedia, a US-based news press, investigating the Popular Assembly of the Oaxaca people. He was standing along the barricades outside the Oaxaca assembly when he was fatally wounded by two bullets.
Lopéz Giménez declared that at this moment, the case has been closed and there will be no further investigation, and only an extraordinary measure on the part of the Supreme Court can reopen the case. He also urged that only by putting international pressure on the Court will the case be determined, and those culpable put to justice.
He further suggested that government officials in Santa Lucia del Camino are material to the case and that they have been identified. He also said that the United States request to adjudge this case was “not enough” to bring the case before the Court.
Lopéz Giménez is counel to Juan Manuel Martinez, an integral member of the Popular Assembly of the Oaxaca People. Martinez was accused of being responsible for Will’s death, which Lopéz Giménez vehemently urges is not the case. Martinez was released from prison in February, after being held for 15 months on merely circumstantial evidence.
The armed groups that frequently attack the barricades surrounding Oaxaca are referred to as “the caravans of death” and this is not the first occurrence in which innocent people have been killed.
Story courtesy of Agencia Pulsar, a news agency run by AMARC-ALC network of community radios (PÚLSAR/FM La Tribu/ Ciranda.net)
Rafael López Binaghi/gf
04/08/2010