Letters to Anna

Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist who worked for one of Russia's last independent papers. In 2006 she was killed by a hired killer, who the killer is and who paid him to do it is still unknown. The Putin regime is fighting a dirty war in Chechya, there are many rebels there that want it to be a separate country. There has been genocide and many acts of brutality. Most journalists would avoid traveling there and reporting about it. She reported on Chechnyan residents who's lives were ruined by the conflict. But she had to let people know about the tragedies of so many people diapering with out a trace. She criticized the Russian handling of Chechya rebels terrorist actions. One occurred in 2002 when rebels took over a theater in Moscow and held 900 hostages. Politkovskaya, a hero in Chechya was asked to serve as a mediator by the rebels. The mediation failed, and in the end the authorities pumped in a toxic gas that killed 125 hostages and the terrorists. Two years later, terrorist took over an elementary school on the first day of school and took a 1,000 hostages. The Kremlin sent the military to storm the school and 333 hostages died. Politkovskaya had appeared on Radio Liberty two days before her murder and criticized the Chechyan government leader. She has also criticized Putin, Russia's previous president. She was secretly followed for two days and then fatality shot after going into her apartment. The editor of her newspaper shut down the paper, saying "no newspaper was worth such sacrifices", he was later overruled by his staff because they had to carry out the mission of the paper. The are no answers to who gave the order to have her killed. But many believe the Russian government had something to do with it. A film with English narration has been produced in titled "Letter to Anna". Her story has been talked about with admiration around the world.