Bill Browder: ‘De moord op Nemtsov is niet Poetins laatste’
Vrijdag 27 februari werd de Russische oppositieleider, Boris Nemtsov, in Moskou op straat vermoord. Dit nieuws bereikte Bill Browder, anti-Poetinactivist, tijdens zijn live-interview interview met Eva Jinek. Browder was twee dagen in Nederland ter promotie van zijn boek Vijand van de Russische staat.
De dag voor de moord sprak Browder bij het John Adams Instituut nog over de geopolitieke spanningen en brute regime dat Poetin leidt.
In zijn officiële statement over de moord benadrukt Browder dat Poetins regime hiermee in een ‘nieuwe en donkere fase’ is beland en dat de moord op Nemtsov niet de laatste zal zijn.
Kijk hier het interview met Eva Jinek terug:
Bill Browder Statement on the Murder of Boris Nemtsov
[Londen, 28 februari 2015]
Last night Russia entered a new and dark phase in its slide toward totalitarian dictatorship with the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Previously, the Putin regime relied primarily on imprisonment and exile to silence its critics. Now, they have started murdering them. I’m sure this won’t be the last.
Boris Nemtsov was one of the few people in Russia who wasn’t afraid to stand up to the corruption, illegitimatacy and impunity of the Putin regime and for that he paid with his life. I will always remember how Boris went around the world calling for justice for the murder of Sergei Magnitsky and demanding Western sanctions against his killers. It is now our duty to do the same for Boris.
I have no confidence in any Russian investigation into his death because the Putin regime proved its incapacity to do this with the cover up of the Magnitsky murder.
I can only hope that Boris Nemtsov’s legacy will ultimately bring about the democratic change in Russia he worked his whole life to achieve.
May Boris rest in peace.
