Monday, March 15, 2010

Journalist Nahum Palacios shot to death







Murdered journalist Nahum Palacios, director of a television station in Aguán

Martyr of the struggle - against the Dictatorship
At ten in the evening near his home Nahum Palacios was shot in Colonia Los Pinos, Tocoa. He was killed instantly. Palacios was the director of a television station in Aguan, Channel 5, who recently had been denouncing the persecution against the peasants by the Military. He had protective measures in the context of the coup  

July 2009 
Warning  news director in Aguán also a victim of attacks against freedom of expression 
Details of the incident Assault, Raid ,Threat 
Nahum Palacios, Journalist 
http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2009/07/07/nahun_palacios_victim/es/
(C-Libre/IFEX) - The head of the Aguan television station, Channel 5, Nahum Palacios, denounced that he has been a victim of attacks against freedom of expression in Honduras, from part of the military in Tocoa Colon, who went to the extreme of  confiscating his technical equipment. 
The military action was to prevent further transmitting of images of protests asking for the return of expatriated President Manuel Zelaya, said Palacios. "They seized my whole equipment, did serious damage to the facilities, I was sought as a criminal by the mere act of publishing some images," he added. 
With great fear for his life and his family, the communicator described what happened on June 30 2009 when he suffered the outrage done by the military. 

"I am outraged, they grabbed my kids with rifles, raided my house,  seized the car, they caught me, the second in charge of the Armed Forces,  Third Commander, he threatened me, he made me look at  the sun and when he realized I was with the Human Rights Commissioner he started treating me differently, "said Palacios. "In Honduras  the  the constitutional guarantees of citizens are lost, one is worthless, you cannot say anything, the equipment was returned to me but with conditions." 
Subsequently, the Armed Forces  invited the local press to a  lunch in the area and at the meeting they  warned the journalists not speak out against the coup, many are the conditions that are in the area so that the radios are in the air, said the reporter. 
Palacios said that throughout his 33 years of life he had never experienced a situation like this, he even thought about  migrating because of not being able to work with conditions. 

Source: Committee for Free Expression Date: 15/03/2010 Source: Aide Saravia, Fian Honduras - elprogresoresiste.codigosur.net

http://hondurasenlucha.blogspot.com/2010/03/el-periodista-nahun-palacios-fue.html

Journalist Nahum Palacios shot to death


Sources: Vos el soberano and El Universal

Tegucigalpa .- Gunmen shot to death journalist Nahum Palacios and they seriously wounded his   companion on the Atlantic coast of Honduras, officials said on Monday.


Palacios, 36, returned on Sunday night to his home in the neighborhood of Tocoa, Los Pinos, about 400 kilometers north of Tegucigalpa, when assailants attacked him, shot him with AK-47 automatic rifles and killed him, police said in a statement released by AP.


The body of the journalist, who was news director of a television channel in Tocoa, was lying in the street, and the two murderers fled the scene. A man with him was hospitalized.


The journalist had reported the murder threats against him on Friday in his radio program  and blamed Miguel Facusse of any attempt against his life, since Palacios covered the crimes commited by their foremen  against the peasants of MUCA.
It is the second journalist killed  in recent days in Honduras.


On Thursday, two gunmen killed in similar circumstances David Meza in La Ceiba, a town near Tocoa.


Meza, 51, was attacked from a vehicle when he arrived home with his car  . He was a reporter for over 30 years in  Radio El Patio in La Ceiba and correspondent in his hometown of Radio America and television Channels 7 and 10 in Tegucigalpa.

No comments:

Post a Comment