Community radio director in Paraguay murdered

Below is the statement from COMUNICA Paraguay. I don't have original news article on this incident, but there is a history of incidents of violence against community radios in the country.

Comunica Denounces Murder of Community Radio Director in Paraguay
Asuncion, Paraguay, 13 January 2009.

The “Asociación Paraguaya de Comunicación Comunitaria, COMUNICA”, and the Coordinadora de Derechos Humanos del Paraguay, denounce the murder of Martín Ocampos Paez director of the Community Radio Hugua Ñandú FM, member of COMUNICA, and
member of a farmers union producers. The Hugua Community Radio works
with the community of same name denouncing the impunity of ranchers,
drug trafickersealers and the security forces that protect them and
persecute the peasants under the excuse of fighting organise crime.
The murder of Martin Ocampo, coincides with militar and police
operations ordered by the government under the presure of economic
groups that are willing to create confusion by arguing the supposed
existence of guerrila groups, that have not been proved. The area has
become a “free zone” for narcotraffic under the contrôle of local
government authorities.

We denounce the disinformation campaign by some media, trying to present
the murder of Martin Ocampo as killed in the burning of a military post,
that the communicator was a member of a guerrilla army and that he was
connected to narcotrafic. All this in ordre to discredit him and the
Community Radio Hugua Ñandú FM aa well as all community radios in Paraguay.
We also denounce the repression against the Organización de Lucha por la
Tierra (OLT) whose members are being detained for defending the health
clinic for the Tava`i community that was closed by the government. For
this case there is more than fifty detainees, among them communicators
and community leaders supporting this organisation and expressing those
ideas through the community radio Joaju FM that belongs to the OLT. The
local authorities are trying to silence the radio and the military are
repressing the peasant resistence.

We demand that the Paraguay government clarifies this violent attacks
against freedom of expression, so they are punished. We call national
and international public opinion, to the social organisations to remain
alert and we call for solidarity to denounce the situation.
COMUNICA and its member organisations are in permanent alert todo defend
and organise by all means necessary our hard earned rights and warns the
government that we will not tolerate the repression and the impunity as
a contition for governance.

Contact Comunica; Victor Onieva : amarcpy@hotmail.com