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TommyPaine Donating Member (300 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 02:31 PM
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Ukranian general confesses to murdering reporter
Source: BBC News - Europe

A former Ukrainian general suspected of carrying out the high-profile murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze has reportedly confessed to the killing. A senior police official said Oleksiy Pukach had also implicated senior political figures in the murder. Mr Gongadze's decapitated body was found in a forest in September 2000.

Three others - all former policemen - were jailed for the murder last year but Gen Pukach remained on the run until his capture on Tuesday. Mr Gongadze was an investigative journalist who had exposed high-level corruption. He was abducted in 2000 and his body was found months later. He had been beaten and strangled, his body doused in petrol and burned.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8163507.stm



Slain journalist Georgiy Gongadze's widow speaks out in this article form the Kyiv Post:

http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/45719
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troubledamerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 11:12 PM
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1. Elites usually hire specialists to do the dirty work.
And with special techniques (even with two gunshots to the back of the head) a reporter's death like Gary Webb's can still be declared a "suicide"...

Elites must never stop laughing at how impotent and gullible we are.
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