UK media hysteria over Navalny death

Yet silence about Julian Assange and the Gaza genocide

A letter from Andy Anderson on the UK media’s hysterical reaction to the death of Alexei Navalny and its relative silence about the persecution of Julian Assange and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which the UK is complicit.

I note the reported death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison and the UK media’s response to this news.

I don’t know, and the UK media doesn’t know, the cause of this man’s death, but that has not stopped them from claiming that he was murdered by Russian President Putin. It seems to me that if Vladimir Putin was the wicked schemer he’s claimed to be, then he might have considered that now would not be a good time to murder Alexei Navalny. After all, Navalny was in prison and posed no threat to his re-election, so why would he do this now?

Well, we’re told, President Putin is evil and brutal and determined to crush any opposition and Navalny was exposing him by telling the truth.

We can all acknowledge that evil and brutal people can treat people terribly just for telling the truth and exposing them. Indeed, we have the example of what is now happening to Julian Assange, but was there a good reason to kill Navalny now?

However, let’s accept all the western media speculation that Navalny was in fact murdered. Why does his suspected murder demand more attention than the actual murder of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza every single day?

Do the people in Gaza merit less attention than this one man’s death?

After all, if this man was indeed murdered by the Russian State, there isn’t much we can do about it but complain. However, the killings in Gaza are likely to be considered by the ICJ as genocide, and by assisting the perpetrators - Israel and the US - the UK is likely to be found guilty of assisting in this crime.

I would have thought that before we start searching around the world for suspected murderers, we should condemn our “friends” for imprisoning a man who exposed US war crimes, and for committing the most heinous crime of all - genocide.