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Anna Politkovskaya murdered
Action
Alert: Ingushetia rally in honor of Anna Politkovskaya
broken up, activists injured and detained. Write to
the president and prosecutor of Ingushetia to protest
these actions and demand an investigation!
Click here for more
info |
| Anna
Politkovskaya, the award-winning Russian journalist
of international renown who wrote for the independent
newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was gunned down in the elevator
of her apartment building in Moscow in the early evening
of Saturday, October 7, 2006. We are shocked, saddened
and deeply troubled by this terrible news. |
| Anna
Politkovskaya was a passionate and dedicated journalist
who wrote about Chechnya like no one else did. The Chechen
people have lost a great friend, Russia has lots one
of its eminent moral critics and the world has lost
a writer who was absolutely devoted to the truth and
to the well-being of ordinary people in utterly frightening
special war zones, who are abandoned by everyone else.
She was the only one who spoke with clarity about them. |
| Write
to the Russian government to demand an objective
investigation of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya!
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here for form
letters, email contact, addresses |
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Anna
wrote gut-wrenching and distressing books, and in
the last years of her life nothing alarmed her as
much as the debased actions of Chechnya's prime minister
Ramzan Kadyrov's followers. She was writing an article
about torture by Kadyrov's henchmen, in special prisons
in Tsentoroi, Kadyrov’s hometown, when she was killed.
Her last article published in Novaya Gazeta a few
days ago deals with the insidious effect of “Chechenization”
- the strategy that she decried as the wholesale abandonment
of the entire republic to rapacious and deviant criminals.
Anna wrote about the murderous war and the chokehold
of the Kadyrov personality cult with great force,
with devastatingly precise images.
We
have also lost a dear friend, someone who many of
us heard speak or met at conferences and expert panels
in the U.S. or in Moscow. Few could convey the horrifying
reality of the war and of how it has changed people
like she could, few could more effectively destroy
lies and deceptions. Anna was absolutely fearless
and she was one of the best-informed analysts on Chechnya.She
was also the most passionate, never affected by fatigue
and cynicism. There is absolutely nobody who can replace
her.
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Commemorating
Anna Politkovskaya - New York, October 16:
The Chechnya Advocacy Network and the Third
Millennium Foundation are inviting you to a
Memorial Gathering to commemorate Anna Politkovskaya
on Monday, October 16, the traditional Russian day
of mourning nine days after her death. We will honor
the life of Anna Politkovskaya and hold a brainstorming
meeting to find ways to best preserve her legacy.
Please go to our events page
for time, location and to RSVP or contact can@chechnyaadvocacy.org.
Condolences
and comments:
If you want to express your condolences
to Anna Politkovskaya's family and colleagues, you
can do so at politkovskaya.fastbb.ru/,
a special website created by her newspaper Novaya
Gazeta. You can also send your thoughts (complete
with your name and country of residence) to can@chechnyaadvocacy.org
and we will post them on this website.
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