Murdered Russian Journalists In Africa Were Onto Something Dangerous for Putin
Source: The Daily Beast
They were on the trail of mercenaries with close ties to the Kremlin in a war-torn country full of diamonds and gold.
ANNA NEMTSOVA
PHILIP OBAJI JR.
08.04.18 3:19 PM ET
UYO, Nigeria — When Russian journalists Kirill Radchenko, Alexander Rastorguyev and Orkhan Dzhemal, arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Friday last week, they wanted to spend a fortnight investigating a private Russian security company operating in the country and to gather information about Russia’s interests in diamond, gold and uranium mining in the restive nation.
Although there are some conflicting accounts, it appears the trio departed the capital, Bangui, late Monday night on their way to meet with a United Nations representative in the town of Bambari, about 380 kilometers away. But they never got there. They reportedly were ambushed and killed by about 10 men wearing turbans and speaking Arabic, according to the driver of their vehicle who survived the attack.
The U.N. said on Wednesday that its peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic, known as MINUSCA, found the bodies of the journalists “with multiple gunshot wounds, along with an abandoned vehicle, 33 kilometers north of Sibut, in Kemo Prefecture,” which would have been about half way to their destination.
According to the CNC (Chinese) news agency, locals in Sibut said that the attack was unusual, that the assailants seemed most interested in the “tall and muscular man” (Radchenko, the cameraman) and they wanted to search his pockets, but the journalist resisted and they shot him in front of his friends.
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