Ukraine 'solves' editor's murder
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Posted on 03/02/2005 12:44:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun says investigators know who ordered the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000.
The authorities have already announced the arrest of Gongadze's "killers".
Mr Piskun told Ukrainian television Gongadze was strangled by employees of the Interior Ministry, but he would not reveal who was behind the plot.
President Viktor Yushchenko said it was a matter of honour to solve the crime - widely seen as politically-motivated.
"The killers executed a criminal order. We know the person who gave this order," Mr Piskun said.
He said two of the alleged killers who had been detained were policemen working for the criminal investigations directorate, a department of the Interior Ministry.
Revolution's demand
Earlier media reports indicated there were four "key witnesses" in the case, but one of them had already been killed.
According to these reports, they were members of a criminal gang largely comprised of police officers.
Gongadze, who led investigations into high-profile corruption cases, was abducted in Kiev in September 2000.
His decapitated body was later found in a forest.
Gongadze's killing prompted months of protests against the then president, Leonid Kuchma, who consistently denied opposition allegations that he was involved.
A proper investigation into this crime was among the main demands of the pro-Western opposition, which staged the "orange revolution" that brought to power Mr Yushchenko following the disputed presidential elections in November.
This is magnificent how this case is moving forward since Yuschenko won elections.
Ukraine 'solves' editor's murder
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Thank you"MeekOneGOP" dzieki Lukasz
It's Bush's fault.
"Mr Piskun told Ukrainian television Gongadze was strangled by employees of the Interior Ministry, but he would not reveal who was behind the plot."
Kuchma of course.
Leave it to the BBC to use scare quotes around "solves" and "killers". Nice show of solidarity there with Gongadze, a real journalist.
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