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Geovanny Sierra, journalist with UNETV

"On 26 November at around 4pm, I began to give live coverage of some protests against the government. The incident occurred at 6:35pm.

I felt the hit of the bullet, I felt that it went into the bones, but I also felt them go numb, like they went to sleep, a bit like the funny bone in your elbow. I thought that it was just a broken bone, with a bit of rest, I’d soon be back at work.

I was transmitting live. I wanted my family to know that I was okay. But then someone else else was saying that I’d been hit in the stomach.

We were around the edge of a commercial centre, a mall, I hid down behind a steep curb, I thought I’d be protected there. But I was hit. The protestors took me to the hospital.

The bullets came from a bus. COFADEH have testimonies that bullets were shot from the same bus against a protest on the day before.

The official version of events is that the bus was being used by prison guards, going from the La Granja courts taking three prisoners accused of extortion, to prison. And they allege that the bus was attacked with the intention of liberating the prisoners, so they opened fire. In first place, the route they would have taken for that journey is a different one, they would have had to take a very different route, breaking all their protocols, and going into an area where there was known to be a protest. The videos show that the bus was not attacked in any way.

The videos show that there was nothing between me and the bus, and the shots were not what are called persuasive shots, over my head, but directly at me.

From 2001 until now, 67 journalists, people working for communication, have been killed. But only three have been taken to justice. For most of them there is no process of investigation, the people who have killed our colleagues enjoy complete impunity."

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Geovanny Sierra, journalist with UNETV<br /> <br /> "On 26 November at around 4pm, I began to give live coverage of some protests against the government. The incident occurred at 6:35pm. <br /> <br /> I felt the hit of the bullet, I felt that it went into the bones, but I also felt them go numb, like they went to sleep, a bit like the funny bone in your elbow. I thought that it was just a broken bone, with a bit of rest, I’d soon be back at work.<br /> <br /> I was transmitting live. I wanted my family to know that I was okay. But then someone else else was saying that I’d been hit in the stomach.<br /> <br /> We were around the edge of a commercial centre, a mall, I hid down behind a steep curb, I thought I’d be protected there. But I was hit. The protestors took me to the hospital.<br /> <br /> The bullets came from a bus. COFADEH have testimonies that bullets were shot from the same bus against a protest on the day before.<br /> <br /> The official version of events is that the bus was being used by prison guards, going from the La Granja courts taking three prisoners accused of extortion, to prison. And they allege that the bus was attacked with the intention of liberating the prisoners, so they opened fire. In first place, the route they would have taken for that journey is a different one, they would have had to take a very different route, breaking all their protocols, and going into an area where there was known to be a protest. The videos show that the bus was not attacked in any way.<br /> <br /> The videos show that there was nothing between me and the bus, and the shots were not what are called persuasive shots, over my head, but directly at me. <br /> <br /> From 2001 until now, 67 journalists, people working for communication, have been killed. But only three have been taken to justice. For most of them there is no process of investigation, the people who have killed our colleagues enjoy complete impunity."