{"id":238,"date":"2007-08-15T00:58:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T23:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2007-08-15T00:58:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T23:58:44","slug":"russian-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Russian Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a disturbing story in today’s European edition of the International Herald Tribune<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The Russian authorities said Tuesday that they were investigating a video recording of what appeared to be the grisly execution of two bound and gagged young men, filmed in a forest beneath a large Nazi flag. At least one of the men was beheaded on camera as he lay in a shallow grave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was shot by a group calling itself the National Socialist Party of Russia but when and where it was filmed is as yet unknown. The group — in a note accompanying the video, which it distributed online — called for the expulsion of all Asians from Russia and the Caucasus, along with independence for all Russian republics in the Caucasus.<\/p>\n

The executed men, the organisation said, were from Dagestan and Tajikstan. One was decapitated, the other shot.<\/p>\n

A still of the two men bound and gagged can be found on the BBC website<\/a>, although I have some ethical issues with its use.<\/p>\n

It’s horrifying that life is so readily extinguished to draw attention to a cause. Filming it is so much more terrible; part of my concerns about the BBC presentation of the story is that using the footage, or even a still from it, only feeds the beast.<\/p>\n

But, graphic and provocative as it is, the film will not get the group what it seeks. If anything, it will harden resolve against it — already other ultranationalist groups have expressed their outrage at the video, saying it discredits their movement as a whole. Even so this movement — for want of a better term — has killed 50 people in 2007, although none of these killings were committed to film.<\/p>\n

The investigation has just begun so it will be some time before we know if this is the work of a few fucked up individuals or the first in a series by a much more widespread organisation.<\/p>\n

I’m not even going to look for this thing online, though it’s undoubtedly still on a few sites. These ‘nationalists’ are scum. Russia has become an increasingly xenophobic nation, partially because of its economic weakness and perceived powerlessness on the international stage. I fear there may be more of this inhumanity to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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