Just another murder

How do you write the article about your own murder? Reporters covering the acquittal of low-level suspects in the contract killing of Anna Politkovskava recount that she would easily have described the farce that was her murder trial—the suspects that no one seriously suspected of having committed her murder, the surprising disappearance of the surveillance video from her apartment building—a video that had been broadcast on most major European networks. What is most impressive: that a grand jury let the defendants off, this in a land were 99% of those charged are found guilty. Anna Politkovskava who was so familiar with the tricks of that regime, would have not been surprised. In some sense you have to admit that it is impressive that the poor Schmos who got set up for the murder managed to drive away from the court house. What is to say that two Chechen brothers should have expected such luck? Another twist of fate.