Radio station bombed

(IFJ/IFEX) – Unknown assailants put a bomb in the doorway of Radio Junín’s studio, causing material damages to the broadcasting station’s entrance and waiting room. The attack against the studio, which is located at 670 José Olaya Street in the province of Junín, took place at 11:50 p.m. (local time) on Sunday 5 March 2000. […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – Unknown assailants put a bomb in the doorway of Radio Junín’s studio, causing material damages to the broadcasting station’s entrance and waiting room. The attack against the studio, which is located at 670 José Olaya Street in the province of Junín, took place at 11:50 p.m. (local time) on Sunday 5 March 2000. Three people with covered faces were seen fleeing the area after placing the bomb.

Jacinto Figueroa Yauri, manager of Radio Junín, filed a complaint about the incident with the Junín police and the Peruvian Attorney General’s office. He has also requested protection guarantees for himself, his family and the radio station’s employees.

He reported to the Journalists’ Human Rights office of the IFJ’s Human rights section for Latin America that at the end of February and beginning of March the station received a series of threatening phone calls, announcing that “Radio Junín is being watched”. On Sunday 5 March, at 11:00 p.m., they received another call from a woman who refused to identify herself and asked to speak to the radio station’s employees.

Figueroa noted that the threats began after 23 February, when the programme Las noticias en Radio Junín reported on events related to the general strike called by the Junín Defence Committee, which is calling for public works to be constructed for the general population using funds received from hydro-electric fees, among other things. The broadcast voiced criticisms of the management of government affairs.

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Alberto Fujimori Fujimori

President of the Republic

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Blanca Nélida Colán

Attorney General

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Jorge Santistevan De Noriega

Ombudsman

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