93. Natalia Estemirova on Chechnya

War and peace through the bravest eyes
Jul 23rd 2009 From The Economist print edition

The testimony of a murdered human-rights campaigner

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IT WAS the kind of scene she had described many times. On July 15th at 8.30am, as she left her flat in Grozny, Natalia Estemirova was forced into a white Lada. She shouted that she was being kidnapped, but those who heard were too scared to report it. By the time her colleagues had found out, she was dead, murdered by three bullets in her chest and a control shot in the head.
There was a mark from a man󰡑s hand on her shoulder, where she was grabbed, and a bruise on her face, where she had been hit. Her wrists bore the marks of bindings. Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian Chechen president, considered her an enemy. And she died as one. She documented hundreds of similar cases in Chechnya, supplying witness statements and photographs, forcing prosecutors to investigate and the media to write about kidnappings, torture and killings, often conducted by people in official uniforms. Much of what the world knew about Chechnya came from her and her colleagues at Memorial, a heroic group which started by documenting Stalinist crimes but continued to trace their modern-day consequences, especially in the Caucasus.

A. 어휘
testimony 證言(증언). flat 아파트. kidnap 납치하다. scared 겁내다.
colleague 동료. control shot 확인사격. grab 움켜쥐다, 잡아채다.
bruise 멍, 상처, 打撲傷(타박상). wrists 손목. bear-bore-borne 가지다, 지니다.
binding 捕縛(포박), 묶기, 잡아매기. authoritarian 권위주의적.
Chechenya 러시아 연방에 속한 공화국. witness statements 증인 진술.
prosecutor 檢事(검사), 기소자. torture 고문. trace 追跡(추적)하다.
consequence 결과. the Caucasus 흑해와 카스피해 사이에 있는 러시아의 한 지방.

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Her murder made few headlines in Russia, which has long been deaf to her findings or deaths such as hers. Some 150 people turned up at her memorial service in Moscow. These days, in a city of 10m, that is quite a crowd. Five months earlier, to the day, she herself had attended a memorial rally for Stanislav Markelov, a human-rights lawyer who was gunned down in the centre of Moscow. A video camera captured her, a good-looking middle-aged woman in a black coat struggling with tears as she spoke about her friend: 󰡒It was so dangerous for him, a Muscovite, to come to ruined Grozny.󰡓 It was much more dangerous for her she lived there.
Mr Markelov and Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist who was murdered three years ago, often stayed in Ms Estemirova󰡑s flat in a shell-pocked building without running water, cheered by her hospitality and the photographic wallpaper displaying a tropical beach. Between them they managed to bring one case of abuse by the Russian army to justice. It remains almost the only one. All of them are now dead.

A. 어휘
memorial service 추모예배. 10m=10 million. quite a crowd 꽤 많은 군중.
memorial rally 추모집회. capture 포착하다. good-looking 美貌(미모)의.
Muscovite 모스크바 사람. ruined 폐허가 된. Grozny 체첸공화국 수도.
flat 아파트. shell-pocked 포탄(총알)이 박힌. pock 천연두.
running water 수돗물, 上水道(상수도). hospitality 歡待(환대). wallpaper 벽지.
tropical 열대의. abuse 학대, 폐해. bring A to justice A를 법에 비추어 처벌하다.