14876: Edouard-News-Targeted by militants, station halts newscasts (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Felix Edouard <loveayiti@hotmail.com>


Boston Globe
By Globe Staff and Wires, 2/19/2003

HAITI

Targeted by militants, station halts newscasts

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- One of Haiti's most popular radio stations stopped
broadcasting news yesterday to protest an attack last week against one of
its correspondents. The home of Goudou Jean Numa, one of Radio Metropole's
leading political reporters, was surrounded by armed men Friday and later
that night a car in his garage was set ablaze. He has since gone into
hiding. Privately owned Metropole aired a statement early yesterday saying
it would halt news reports for 24 hours in protest. Radio Metropole, along
with other private radio stations such as Radio Kiskeya and Radio Haiti
Inter, have frequently been the target of threats and harassment from
political militants claiming loyalty to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
(Reuters)






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