Russian Environmentalist Beaten To Death By Skinheads, 7 Others Hurt - Reuters

[hatrack]

MOSCOW - A Russian environmentalist was beaten to death and seven others wounded on Saturday when a group armed with iron bars and baseball bats attacked their camp near a nuclear waste processing plant in Siberia.

Russian media reported up to 15 people shouting fascist slogans attacked the environmentalists, who were living in the camp to protest against nuclear processing in the city of Angarsk near Lake Baikal, 5,000 km (3,125 miles) east of Moscow. "One of the injured died in intensive care as a result of the attack," Ekho Moskvy radio station quoted one of the environmental activists, Olga Kozlova, as saying.

Another resident of the camp, Marina Popova, said the attackers shouted slogans against anti-fascists.

"From that we can conclude they were Nazis or skinheads", she told the Vesti-24 television channel, blood seeping through a bandage wrapped around her head.

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[GCP]

1. Bastards were too stupid to realize the evironmentalists were trying to protect THEM

Probably brain-damaged from all the nuclear re-processing :grr:

[Peregrine Took]

2. Maybe they thought they were going to lose jobs - someone may have been

planting those rumors among the knuckle dragging crowd to get them stirred up.

[poverlay]

3. My first thought is that the government(Putin) paid them, and put them up to it. Perhaps they were

even some old KGB buddy's kids or something...