Dear all: Here's my attempt at translating the text previously sent by our friend Arnaldo Slaen. Please forgive any errors.
Elmer Escoto San Pedro Sula, Honduras ******************************************************* INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY NET - AMARC - ALERT - 15/10/03 Radio Pio XII from the city of Oruro [sic] suffered an attack with explosives yesterday afternoon. Its transmitter site and that of University Television have been completely destroyed and are currently unable to carry their informative work. This action occurred amongst systematic threats via telephone against community media affiliated to ERBOL (Escuelas Radiofónicas de Bolivia) [Bolivian Redio Schools] in Oruro, Cochabamba and La Paz. Then follows a letter to the Inter-American Human Rights Comission of the Organization of American States. La Paz, October 15, 2003 Sirs Inter-AmericanComisión Human Rights Comission of the OAS Washington Ref: Indictment At 18.05 hours the transmitting plant located on a hill near the city of Oruro, where other radio and TV-station antennas are installed, was completely destroyed by explosives. Efraín Mamani, the plant's watchman, told that two camouflaged men forced him out of his quarters, tied him and made him reveal the location of the transmitter house of the university television channel and Radio Pio XII. Representative Ivo Arias, of the governing Left-wing Revolutionary Movement [in spanish, Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR)], condemned the attack and said he "had no knowledge" of the fact. Faced with that answer, dwellers of Oruro and the workers of Pio XII demanded that a comission be formed with members of the Technical Courthouse Police and a counsel, to verify 'in situ' about this criminal attack aimed at silencing the catholic broadcaster, which is one of the emblematical institutions of resistance against dictatorship. The comission and the dwellers were surprised to learn that the explosion was so professionally controlled that it damaged only the close perimeter of the transmitter site. According to the watchman, a few hours before the attack he saw two men in police uniforms wandering about that area. ............ [cut text] The other two stations of Pio XII, located in Siglo XX (Potosi province) and in the city of Cochabamba were also menaced in terms that made it clear they could be the target of military actions in retaliation for the information they are broadcasting in adherence to the principles of journalism. In these days of political unrest, other stations have also been menaced, for instance, Radio Televisión Popular (RTP), Channel 36, Radio Wayna Tambo y Pachamama in the city of El Alto, as well as other stations throughout the whole bolivian territory. These cowardly menaces clearly intend to shut down the informative programs and to put an end to the democratic system, whose legal-philosophical bases rests on the principle of freedom of speech. Rev. P. Guillermo Siles Paz, OMI Legal Representative Radio Pio XII For further information, please contact Roberto Durette (Director Radio Pio XII) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guillermo Siles (ERBOL) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rene Zeballos (ERBOL) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gustavo Gomez Director Programa de Legislaciones y Derecho a la Comunicacion AMARC-ALC [Translated by Elmer Escoto, San Pedro Sula, Honduras] ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is coming out! Preorder yours now! Only $20.97 through us. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt