Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (Archive). © REUTERS/ Maxim Shemetov
BBC: Yanukovych ally Peklushenko in new Ukraine mystery death
A former regional governor has been found dead in Ukraine, the latest in a series of deaths involving allies of deposed President Viktor Yanukovych.
Oleksandr Peklushenko, former head of Zaporizhzhya, had suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and authorities said initial inquiries pointed to suicide.
A member of Ukraine's Party of the Regions, he was being investigated over the dispersal of protesters last year.
Five other officials also died in mysterious circumstances this year.
All of them supposedly took their own lives in the past six weeks
Update: Five High Ranking Ukrainian Officials Die in Strange 'Suicides' -- MINA
WNU Editor: Here comes the conspiracy theories.
4 comments:
WNU Editor,
The BBC story is wrong, The suicide count is now up to 7, and the "disappeared" is now over 3,000.
Jay .... most of the disappeared are people who have gone underground or who have left the country. But it is also true that there are many where there is no plausible explanation for why they have disappeared with the exception that they had a tie-in with the former government. I hate to be the first to voice it .... and I hope to God that I am wrong .... but I am starting to wonder if some elements of the Ukraine government or one of the militias (or both) have embarked on an Argentina/Chilean form of "the disappeared".
WNU Editor,
There have been about 280 personal accounts from family members, that CPOU and Regions members have been grabbed, beaten by masked men, then allowed a phone call, only to tell their family member that " it's okay, I'm with the SBU",
And that is the last anybody ever hears.
Jay .... I will be following up on this story in the next few days.
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