[click image]Russian human rights activist shot dead in Ingushetia
MOSCOW, July 15 (RIA Novosti) - The body of leading human rights activist Natalya Estemirova has been discovered in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, Russian investigators said on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for Ingushetia's Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti that the body of Estemirova was discovered close to the Kavkaz Federal Highway near the village of Gazi-Yurt.
Preliminary investigative reports state that Estemirova died of gunshot wounds to the head and chest area.
Estemirova was kidnapped on Wednesday morning in neighboring Chechnya.
Estemirova had been investigating kidnappings and disappearances in Chechnya for the Memorial group. She had earlier worked with journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead in Moscow in October 2006, and human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who was killed in the Russian capital in January of this year.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said on Wednesday that the president was "outraged" at the killing and had instructed investigators to "take all the necessary measures" to bring the killers to justice.
Human Rights Watch's Tatyana Lokshina said that two people had witnessed Estemirova being shoved into a white car.
"She was able to yell out that she was being kidnapped," Lokshina told RIA Novosti.
"This morning at approximately 8:30 am [5:30 GMT], she left for work but some unidentified people shoved [Natalya] into a car and sped off," Grozny Memorial Center director, Shaaman Akbulatov, said.
Ingush opposition journalist Magomed Yevloyev was killed in police custody last August. Police in Ingushetia said a gun had "accidentally gone off." His death led to large scale protests.
Russia's Ingushetia has seen a rise in violence in recent months, with the republic's president, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, badly injured in an assassination attempt on June 22. He is currently said to be recovering in a top Moscow clinic.
I'm sorry. This is just all too flagrant for me to believe it's Putin doing this stuff. It seems to me that these murders didn't start in until the West started openly trying to vilify Putin... about the same time as the missile "defense" bases first started being proposed. There's even more reason to suspect it's someone trying to make him look like a murderating dictator than him being a murderating dictator. People insist he's a fucker because "he used to be in the KGB", but then you look into it and find he wasn't that big a deal in the KGB and the Western press has been wildly speculating about it for a long time... worse than the worst conspiracy nuts on the web. So. Sorry. There is not much reason to think it's him doing it, and plenty of reason to think it's being done to discredit him, vilify him.
It isn't as though we don't already know we've got assassination teams out there all over the place, and are paying terrorists to fuck with "enemy" governments. I'm just not swallowing this swill. Why on earth would someone as intelligent as Vladimir Putin do these things so publicly and sloppily when there's just no need to be so sloppy about it... and every reason to want to avoid international condemnation?
Don't be a chump.
I'm not sure what to think of these things.
ReplyDeleteOn the one hand, they have a real leader who isn't controlled by oligarchs, etc...(right?).
On the other hand, there are activists who "appear" (and I say "appear") to have been killed by Putin's boys. But, is it to make Putin look bad? Think about that...
I'm not sure what to think here.
Ummm...it's called "false flag". The best way to make Putin look bad, is to kill activists and make it seem like he was responsible. Because the oligarchs, etc...really can't get to him. That IS what they would do, I'm sure of it. But...I don't know for sure...
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't take ANY shit from the oligarchs, and fucks them up when they get too greedy or try to influence the government, so, yes, indeedy, they would do a lot to take him down. So would we. So would the Israelis. So would the Brits. I'm almost completely positive it isn't him. He's not that stupid, and even if he likes people being afraid of him because of it, he doesn't want NATO countries thinking he's a murderating dictator. He would not have stepped down as president, per the constitution, if he didn't mind that.
ReplyDeleteHe's not doing it.
This is clearly a case of one of the dick's hit squads in action, just as I suspect is the case with the agitators in Iran. And yeah, Vladimir Vladimirovich was in the KGB, and our "liberal" media love to harp on it, but rarely do they mention that duhbaya's daddy was HEAD OF THE CIA! (Yep, that's the same "man" who is the only person of appropriate age in the US who can't remember what city he was in when JFK was butchered.) I want my money back!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bip. I spent a few hours last night dealing with an Iranian friend who just will not get off this thing about the rigged election and how awful the regime is being in its efforts to root out Western agents. She, and others, are right 'round the bend angry at Ahmadinejad, and no amount of reminding them that their leadership is all that has stood between us and WWIII makes a dent. They don't seem to see that there is no choice but to put down the protests and to work overtime trying to root out the agents and assassins. Russia and China won't back them if they can't keep their state together.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I wish I'd had you around when I was trying to convince a former friend that Putin was getting the full vilification treatment, that both our government and his oligarchs (really the same things) were far more likely to be the assassins, that they've been pumping us full of shit for so long we have to look more carefully into everything we only think we know....
This stuff is so CRUCIAL to understand, and it's REALLY hard to pierce through the mental conditioning to get to the real intelligence in people... and THAT is really all that can save us....