Abordnet

Dear afunds, The latest headlines on the world news seem to be Chechenia and the Russian Prime Minister (latest wire from Moscow claimed he was Putin, but that could have changed by now). Among the items was a story of a missionary that had been released by the Chechen guerrillas. The only sign of life from the guy that had been a video tape of his finger being cut off. As the Chechen guerrillas do tend to leave decapitated heads of their victims on the roadside I believe they are quite capable of all kinds of atrocities. Kidnapping seems to be a national sport there. My question would be would a video flick of a Russian soldier's throat being cut open be a snuff film ? I mean if the guy is deliberately being decapitated for a propaganda reason I suppose the deliberately for a film -part would be fulfilled in my opinion. Though the use is propagandistic so that may well exclude the for sale -bit, though we could argue the fellow necessarily would not have been killed if it not was for the film, as the argument against films of (public) executions goes, and that the guerrillas are seeking personal gain with the distribution of the film. Monetary wealth as in this fellow's family did not pay ransom, and Igor's bill there in the corner is getting overdue soon .  The argument of course can be that money is not being made of the sale of the film, per se, but for such films not being done, kind of. Any takers?