Intelligence agencies say deadly toxin in skin of Ecuador dart frogs found in Navalny’s body and highly likely resulted in his death
Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, was killed by dart frog poison administered by the Russian state two years ago, a multi-intelligence agency inquiry has found, according to a statement released by five countries, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.
The US was not one of the intelligence agencies making the claim.
Navalny died in a remote Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence. Samples from his body were secured before his burial and sent to the laboratories of two countries.
The UK, describing the poisoning as barbaric, said it would be reporting Russia to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, as a flagrant violation by Russia of the chemical weapons convention (CWC).
It’s only in vain if we let it be.
The entire point of silencing dissidents like Kashoggi and Nalvalny is because the authoritarian strong men who murdered them fear that if people aren’t intimidated into silence, they will rise up together and destroy their tenuous grip on power.
Have you honestly ever thought about how fucking pathetic it is that so called “leaders” of countries, who control entire armies and hold the power of nuclear weapons, can be so intimidated by the words of individuals they see them as a threat that has to be annihilated.
No matter which leader or government it is that murders its own citizens for the crime of criticism and free speech, the pathetic behavior always reminds me of the execution of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany.