My father was killed by Russian propaganda, says Nemtsov's daughter

Russian propaganda kills. It kills reason and common sense but it also kills human beings.

The tragic death of my father on 27 February was an act of political violence for which Russia’s state TV channels, among others, bear responsibility. For years, they stoked hatred towards him and other opposition figures, casting them as “national traitors”. Propaganda is not a crime, in and of itself: it is part of the furniture of the modern world.

What is a crime is to use propaganda to incite people to break the law, employ violence or wage war. It was for these crimes that, in post-war Germany, the allies convicted propagandists at Nuremberg, and the International Criminal Tribunal condemned the incitement to ethnic massacres in the lead up to the Rwandan genocide.

As early as the 2000s, the state concentrated its control of Russia’s largest media outlets. A powerful propaganda machine was created whose output, in my view, has become openly criminal. It aims to inspire hatred and enmity, and to debase people’s worth on the grounds of nationality and social affiliation, be they Ukrainians, Americans or Europeans.

The pro-Putin media has incited people to participate in the war in eastern Ukraine and commit violence against the Russian opposition. The result? Thousands of people dead in the Donbass and attacks on human-rights activists in Moscow and Grozny. My father fell victim to this hateful propaganda.

From the beginning of the Maidan protests in November 2013, Russia’s pro-state media conducted a hysterical campaign against the Ukrainian revolution and the new government in Kiev. They called it a Nazi junta.

Rumours were deliberately spread among Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population, most of whom watched Russian TV, that the new authorities planned to repress and discriminate against them. People were called upon to defend their Russian-speaking brothers, so sparking the separatist movement in eastern Ukraine and its support by armed volunteers from Russia.

You are wearing a Russian tin-foil red star beanie as you type right?

Are the Ukrainian people crying out for the Russian puppet Yanukovych they rose up against to come back and lead them? No!

Putin has lots of people buried in the ground in Ukraine, Georgia and Russia, but not the high ground. Let’s remember MH-17 also and the 200 civilians Putin had killed on that passenger plane.

This article written by Boris Nemtsov’s daughter speaks of what you are doing, Russian propagandist.

Interfax then drilled him (KADYROV) on the Nemtsov murder. His reply:

“The relatives and lawyers say that at the moment of the murder [of Nemtsov], Zaur Dadayev was not on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge, but was not even near it. Dadayev was detained in Ingushetia and as the defense claims, was beaten. He had a friend with him, and so that this man was released, Dadayev made a confession. I repeat, I know this from the relatives and lawyers.”

Interestingly, when covering this interview initially earlier today, both RIA Novosti and Gazeta.ru said that this remark about the innocent suspect not on the bridge related to Ruslan Geremeyev, not to Dadayev.

Asked if he had his own explanation for the murder, Kadyrov once again invoked the claim that Adam Osmayev, head of the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion, a pro-Kiev Chechen fighting the Russian-backed separatists, was to blame. He claimed that Osmayev's father, Aslanbek Osmayev, took a contract out on Kadyrov in 2004, and that his son, Adam, “worked for Western intelligence.”

“The organizers of the murder exploited Nemtsov themselves and then liquidated him themselves and now try to shift the blame to someone else. Words are ascribed to me, as if I said that Nemtsov must be killed. That is not true! Why should he be murdered? What has he done to us? Did he ever get in my way? He hadn't even come to Chechnya for many years. The last time I saw him was 14 years ago in Gudemeres.”

This is an interesting reply, because it suggests Kadyrov has no motivation to kill Nemtsov over his critique of Kadryov’s police practices or his “personal army,” made in a Facebook post in December 2014, two months before his assassination.

The theory of the case is that Chechens angered by the Charlie Hedbo cartoons and reaction to the case by the Russian liberal media, or angered at liberal criticism of Kadyrov’s abuses, were motivated to kill Nemtsov.

Another theory says that Putin or his lieutenants ordered the murder to be performed by Chechens so that it would like like revenge over criticism of Chechnya. With Kadyrov himself saying he has no motive to kill Nemtsov, and backing up his fighters as innocent, the official investigation is going to have to come up with a theory to square the circle.

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