mystic brew
03-14-2006, 03:17
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1723216,00.html
in Russia
Prosecutors allege that days before Mr Chebayev was due to go on trial, on May 3 last year, Mr Bespalov was abducted by a gang of men who thrust him into a car, binding his hands and covering his eyes with a woolly hat.
When the hat was removed, Mr Bespalov told the court this week, he was in a forest glade surrounded by masked men in camouflage.
He told the court, according to media reports: "Another two men, their heads bound up by rags, lay down with their heads resting on a log, so I was unable to see their faces."
He said Mr Kalyadentsev, who is Mr Chebayev's nephew, told him to watch what he was doing closely and that he would be killed if he closed his eyes. "Kalyadentsev took the axe and with three blows severed the head of one of the [Uzbek] victims," Mr Bespalov said.
He said Mr Kalyadentsev held a knife to his throat, threatening him with the same fate if he did not cut off the other Uzbek's head. "He was filming it all, and said I had to smile into the camera. I did what he asked."
This is as if someone took philosophy 101 and constructed a scenario on how to get someone to commit evil... and then applied it.
I have to say there is something uniquely chilling to this.
in Russia
Prosecutors allege that days before Mr Chebayev was due to go on trial, on May 3 last year, Mr Bespalov was abducted by a gang of men who thrust him into a car, binding his hands and covering his eyes with a woolly hat.
When the hat was removed, Mr Bespalov told the court this week, he was in a forest glade surrounded by masked men in camouflage.
He told the court, according to media reports: "Another two men, their heads bound up by rags, lay down with their heads resting on a log, so I was unable to see their faces."
He said Mr Kalyadentsev, who is Mr Chebayev's nephew, told him to watch what he was doing closely and that he would be killed if he closed his eyes. "Kalyadentsev took the axe and with three blows severed the head of one of the [Uzbek] victims," Mr Bespalov said.
He said Mr Kalyadentsev held a knife to his throat, threatening him with the same fate if he did not cut off the other Uzbek's head. "He was filming it all, and said I had to smile into the camera. I did what he asked."
This is as if someone took philosophy 101 and constructed a scenario on how to get someone to commit evil... and then applied it.
I have to say there is something uniquely chilling to this.