Videographer of Russian plane crash site has been killed
Andrei Mendierej, the amateur filmmaker who arrived at the crash site near Smolensk and recorded the survivors being shot by unknown assailants, has been assassinated.
Here is a translation from the news report:
“Author of the video seen by everyone by now has been stabbed near Kijow on 4.15 and transported in critical condition to the hospital in Kijow. On 4.16 three unidentified individuals unplugged him from life support system and stabbed him 3 more times. Andrij was prenounced dead that afternoon. Russian government claims it was a coincidence. ”
The plane that crashed near Smolensk Russia on April 10th virtually annihilated the Polish government. In addition to Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski, the Deputy Foreign Minister, head of the National Security Office, the national bank President, Deputy Parliament Speaker, the Army Chief of Staff, and heads of the air and naval forces all perished.
The Polish delegation were making the emotional trip to honor the Poles slain by the Soviet secret police at the infamous Katyn forest massacre. Their plane crashed just a short drive from the site. The murder of 22,000 Polish officers by the NKVD in 1940 is one of Poland’s greatest national traumas.
Andrei’s video, which he managed to upload onto the internet before being stabbed, has brought simmering tensions between Russia and Poland to a rolling boil. Here is the video that got him murdered, followed by a digitally enhanced version with some english translations:
Bishop fined for “partial holocaust denial”
A German court found Bishop William Richardson guilty of “partial holocaust denial” last week, and fined the clergyman 10,000 euros. The Bishop alleges that only 300,000 jews died in German concentration camps during WW II. He has also stated that there were no homicidal gas chambers used to execute jews.
Holocaust “revisionism” has become a legitimate political and historical issue since the birth of the internet. Revisionists claim there is no evidence that the Nazi government planned to exterminate the jews. There is no evidence of the gas chambers allegedly used in these mass killings, and there is no forensic evidence of the remains of six million dead jews.
However, it is a hate crime in Germany to deny the holocaust. The Bishop had allowed himself to be recorded on video during an interview. This video appeared on YouTube, and was used to prosecute him.