Armed Men Burn
Baggao Community Radio Station
BY BULATLAT
Posted 12:19 p.m.,
July 2, 2006
Eight armed men
suspected to be soldiers burned the station of a community radio in the
mountainous town of Baggao in Cagayan province (some 500
kilometers north of Manila).
The suspects barged
in the station of DWRC 90.1 FM Radyo Cagayano, located at the Barangay
Centro, Baggao town proper at 2 a.m., and awakened the five crew of the
station. The armed men then forcibly took the cellphones of the station
crew and forced them out before setting the station on fire.
The station is
owned by the Cagayan province-wide peasant organization Alyansa Dagiti
Mannalon ti Cagayan (Alliance of Farmers in Cagayan) or Kagimungan.
Radyo Cagayano had begun airing only in May this year, broadcasting for
only two hours, at 4 to 6 p.m. daily.
This was not the
first attack on the community radio. In 2003, after the groundbreaking
ceremony at the station site, soldiers attacked a Kagimungan leader,
cutting off his arm with a bolo. Bulatlat
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