"You may succeed in silencing me but that silence comes at a price. You have shown yourself to be as ruthless and barbaric, as your most hostile critics have claimed". Litvinenko on Putin just hours before his death.
Litvinenko died of a radioactive poisoning, as reported all over the news media. But we remember him. Putin didn't succeed in silencing him because his death was broadcast all over the world and no one will forget the terrible death he died. Putin can control and silence one man but not everyone. Litvinenko's memory will survive because such an act of injustice and inhumanity as his poisoning cannot be forgotten - not ever.
How on earth in the modern world of free flow of information can Putin do these things, and literally get away with murder? Is it because of Western complacency only? Is it because of an existing conspiracy of silence whereby everyone knows something awful is happening but no one mentions it? If that is so, then not only Putin but also Western politicians have killed all of those journalists and other who died mysterious deaths recently. How can the EU invite Putin to festive meetings and not to think of all the courageous people he had killed? What about those languishing in his jails? Why are our leaders silent about all this when they meet Putin?
We, voters and citizens, must demand and tell our leaders: Time to stop the silence and act.
posted by Emilia.kk @ 3:04 PM
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