Environmental Protester Slain in Siberia
MOSCOW — Attackers dressed in dark clothes and wielding metal pipes raided a camp of environmental protesters in Siberia early Saturday, leaving one dead and several injured, a spokeswoman for the local administration said.
Eight demonstrators were hospitalized after the attack, one of whom later died from his injuries, according to the spokeswoman for the Angarsk city administration, who was not authorized to give her name.
A criminal investigation had been opened in connection with the attack, she said.
More than 20 demonstrators had been camped out by a reservoir near Angarsk, about 2,600 miles east of Moscow, to protest nuclear waste processing at the state-owned Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Plant, Russian news agencies reported, citing local police.
Two suspects in the attack have been detained and 13 others identified, the RIA Novosti agency reported, citing a local police source.
Police spokesman Valery Gribakin was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as suggesting that theft had appeared to be a motive for the attack: Police had confiscated a rucksack and telephone from the detained that had belonged to the protesters, he said.
“Investigators are inclined to believe that the attack was motivated by hooliganism with the aim of stealing property,” he said.
Angarsk is located about 60 miles from the southern tip of Lake Baikal, the world’s largest freshwater lake and a symbol for some of Russia environmental heritage.
Russia is working to set up a uranium enrichment center at the electrolysis plant to enrich uranium from Kazakhstan - a major uranium ore producer.
President Vladimir Putin proposed setting up the center in 2006 as a way to provide uranium fuel to nations intent on building nuclear power plants while making sure they don’t develop weapons programs.
Enriched uranium supplied by the center would be made available only to countries which have undertaken the appropriate nonproliferation commitments. These would include a pledge of no use for nuclear explosive purposes and acceptance of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.
© 2007 The Associated Press
This article portrays a jackal attack. Probably paid for by the corporatocracy, ie the nuclear industry and the local government. Those environmentalists only crime was standing up against big money. This is a situation that should be remembered.
Rather odd that the mainstream mass media can’t think of a term like “terrorist” for such a clear case of terrorism.
“There is no place like home”, and people shit on the pillow they lay their head on.
You go, clore!
If the paid thugs had their car damaged in the attack (like if an errand rock had hit their car or if they hit a tree on the way out) then the peaceful demonstrators would have clearly been labeled as terrorists, and rightfully so.
How can hitting, jailing, and killing peaceful protestors ever be seen as anything but patriotic.
I’m glad that the Russian and the US governments are in agreement on this. Oh yeah, add China, Indonesia, Nigeria, and any other dictatorial third world country.
Need to look in to the history and current activities of the Siemens Corporation, pro-Nazi in WW2, major builder and promoter of nuclear power plants internationally, and the reason why nuclear protestors are attacked with steel pipes.
Nuclear Power = Nazi Power.
That’s weird, I read it first in Dutch and there they mentioned the attackers were skinheads, the Nazi-kind, and the attack was ideologically motivated and that it was somewhat weird and worrying because they normally attack (and regularly kill) immigrants exclusively, well maybe besides beating up the odd gay-rights activists and such.
But from this article you are lead to believe something entirely different.
The protesters themselves seem not to share the castrated version of the story sold here by AP. http://imc-siberia.org/ mentions:
“The monstrous and deliberate cruelty of their attack does not leave doubt - these are not the deeds of ordinary hooligans, but the thought-out actions of Nazis. It should be noted the prolonged - more than half-hour - absence of the police on the scene of the crime, and the subsequent attempts of the militiamen to deny the existence itself in Angraske of Nazi groupings..”
Over the centuries we’ve had sooooo many martyrs to The Cause. The noble Siberian protester’s courageous actions will not be forgot, - and neither will the actions of the evildoers.
One the one hand, (if nothing else, and at the very least) the good which caring people do always augments their future incarnations, -and the converse equally applies.
Such appalling and cowardly crimes as this, committed by twisted, hate-filled villains will similarly never be forgotten, - they will repay one hundredfold for their every malefic action done to intrepid people of goodwill.
Criminals such as these might evade human justice, but they’ll never escape the Omniscient Hand.
“As ye sow, - so will ye reap.”
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what obie wan says is interesting
So for those who ever doubted, when denied their wishes in any way the detroyers of the earth will resort to murder and mayhem to get their way.
When some of the environmental anarchists start blowing up dams, factories, clear cutting equipment, cell-phone towers, and such, let nobody accuse them of any savagery greater than those whom they oppose.
It’s not happening here yet, when thugs club you to death and then police arrest the rest of the protesters, I think that’s when I totally loose respect for my government.
The way the AP article frames this is strange, is it “motivated by hooliganism with the aim of stealing property” or just plain “theft”, from a bunch of backpackin hippies.
I say it was backed by big money via thugs as a message that we will terrorize you to achive a political purpose.
I suspect a cover-up.