Georgiy Gongadze, a famous Ukrainian journalist, was murdered in 2000. His body was buried on March 22nd, 2016 on the territory of the St. Nicholas on the Embankment Church in Kyiv.
Gongadze's relatives and friends came to bid him farewell, including his widow Myroslava. Also present were Ihor Zhdanov, Ukrainian Minister of Youth and Sports, members of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament), Mustafa Nayem, Victoria Sumar, Ihor Mosiychuk and Oleksandr Moroz, former head of the Verkhovna Rada.
For sixteen years, Georgiy's body was kept in Kyiv's central morgue.
His mother, Lesya Gongadze, kept refusing to burry the body. She died in 2013. Still, the murder investigation is unfinished and remains one of the most painful scars in the modern history of Ukraine.
Georgiy Gongadze had been exposing the crimes of Leonid Kuchma's regime, Ukraine's 2nd president, and disappeared on September 16th, 2000. In November of 2000, a headless corpse was found in a forest in the Kyiv region. Experts claim it belonged to Gongadze. In 2009, his skull remains were found, according to the General Prosecutor's Office.
This video was originally published on April 7th, 2016.
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