Threatened with murder already several times and allocated with bans on writing, she does not stop to point out the desperate situation of people in Chechnya.
Politkowskaja is now able to prove torture, inhuman treatment and homicide in Chechnya with a video, which is dated 21st of March 2000.
The film is now on the internet available to download:
http:// www.stud.ntnu.no/~kjonigse/k5/m2095011.rm
(Real Player 30 MB).
Half-naked prisoners of war are reloaded, beaten and kicked from on an overcrowded lorry of the Russian Ministry of Justice.
Dead and severly injured are dragged, partly thrown out of the lorry.
One person has an open, untreated arm fracture.
All this has been filmed by a Russian soldier in March 2000.
The prisoners were fighters, who had been promised an amnesty by Putin if they surrender, see
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they had surrendered in the battle of Komsomolskoje
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None of the shown 76 prisoners is thought to have survived.
The film is also mirrored by a major Polish daily newspaper:
The page:
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Then click on the right box below.
OBEJRZYJ FILM
¤ Obejrzyj film [30,76MB]; plik Real Media
Or to download directly:
link to the film Real Player Format:
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08.10.2004 20:02
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