Over 20 years before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, President Vladimir Putin’s Federation conducted a campaign against the people of Chechnya to crush their attempt to become an independent state.
However, the genocide inflicted upon the Chechens was not widely known at the time.
But one journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, made it her mission to report the ghastly truth as a factual alternative to Russian state propaganda.
From 1999 to 2006, Politkovskaya’s reporting and activism gradually educated the world about the 60,000 victims of the Chechen Revolt. It won her Amnesty International’s Award for Humanitarian Journalism, but Politkovskaya’s writings also brought about attempts on her life.
“This is a powerful tribute to the frontline storytellers who risk and, too often, lose their lives in pursuit of spreading the truth of war, torture and genocide.” – IMDB
