Politkovskaya’s Last Article: Designated Terrorists
On Thursday, Novaya gazeta published Anna Politkovskaya’s last article. The article is incomplete. This translation was sent out on Johnson’s Russia List #231, 13 October 2006. It was translated by Elena Leonova. I reproduce it below.
Novaya gazetaNo. 78October 12, 2006
DESIGNATED TERRORISTSThe anti-terrorist policy of torture in the North CaucasusTorture in Chechnya: Anna Politkovskaya’s final, incomplete articleBy Anna Politkovskaya
Editor’s introduction:
Everyone is asking us whether Anna Politkovskaya’s murder was connected with her work on some articles about torture, which she mentioned in a Radio Liberty interview on Thursday, October 5, a day before her death. Today we are publishing fragments from two unfinished articles by our observer. The first fragment includes first-hand testimony about torture, confirmed by medical evidence. The second fragment is a transcript of a video recording which Politkovskaya intended to use for an article. The disc found in Polikovskaya’s possession (we would like to hear ..read more
