Posted on 02/14/2009 12:48:33 AM PST by nickcarraway
The murder of a Chechen man in Vienna on January 13 threatens to derail a torture case against Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov in Austria, in which the victim was a key witness.
The 27-year-old Umar Israilov, a former anti-Russian guerrilla later forced to join Kadyrov's security forces, said he had himself seen the Chechen president and his men torture opponents, in an interview with the New York Times last December.
"How can we go on without the main witness?" said a representative of the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), which filed a complaint last June in Vienna.
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Apparently the New York Times was doing a report on this witness and, according to a Viennese paper, got him killed.
I always knew the NYTimes killed people!
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