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Der eigene Tod als politisches Fanal?

"If you are hearing or seeing this message, it is because I was assassinated by President Álvaro Colom."

So begins an eerie YouTube video featuring prominent Guatemalan lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, who was, in fact, shot and killed in May of last year while riding his bicycle near his home in Guatemala City, The Washington Post reports (via the FP Legal Post). Earlier this week, however, U.N. investigators reported that Rosenberg himself had hired the hit men who killed him. The U.N.'s finding has helped to avert a brewing political crisis, one that Rosenberg apparently intended to cause: After the videotape was released, "the country descended into turmoil as conspiracy theories swirled and a constitutional crisis loomed," the Post reports.

[Weiterlesen, siehe auch den Beitrag in der Washington Post]

Das angesprochene Youtube-Video ist weiterhin abrufbar.

Full post as published by jurabilis - German bLAWg from Berlin. on January 16, 2010 (boomark / email).