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“Provocation” murder – or murder by mistake?

Published: 18 July, 2009, 01:18


AFP photo / Dominique Faget

Kidnappers were not going to kill human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, the preliminary investigation states. The murder in the Russian republic of Ingushetia was, rather, viewed by many as a provocation.

 
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