#Democracy 3 assassination trial

'There are a lot of unanswered questions,' he said on Tuesday. 'Unfortunately, the request was not accepted.'ĭale Choi, an analyst with Mongolian Metals and Mining, likened Mr Zorig's murder to Mr Kennedy's 1963 assassination. 'We also requested that the case is de-classified and the court is open,' she said. Mr Zorig's sister, Oyun, who heads the pro-democratic Zorig Foundation and is a former government minister, said in a statement sent to Reuters she and her family did not think justice had been done. 'To me, it looks as if you are trying to hide the fact that you are being repressive.' 'This is very a dangerous practice, in which a court reaches a verdict of murder in secret,' he told parliament on Tuesday.

#Democracy 3 assassination trial

Mongolian deputy prime minister Tsend Nyamdorj questioned the decision to hold the trial behind closed doors. It was not known how the three men had answered the charges, how they were represented in the court, or when they were arrested. The Ministry of Justice also did not respond to requests for comment. Reuters was unable to reach the courts responsible for the verdict.

They were each given prison sentences of between 24 and 25 years. Mongolian media identified the three suspects as B Sodnomdarjaa, Ts Amgalanbaatar and T Chimgee, and said they had been found guilty of murder by a panel of judges on Tuesday after a hearing held behind closed doors since October. Mr Zorig was Mongolia's minister of infrastructure and was widely expected to become prime minister of the fledgling democracy in 1998 when he was assassinated in his home at the age of 36. His murder has been likened to the assassination of US President John F Kennedy and sparked a manhunt that involved authorities in Britain and Germany. Nicknamed the 'Golden Swallow of Democracy', Mr Zorig was credited with saving lives during anti-government protests in Mongolia in 1990. Do you see Trump as a traitor? Are you in the Rothkopf camp when it comes to that? A traitor to the Constitution, to the principles of whatever it means to be an American? And this is particularly ironic given his own xenophobia and trading on Americanness.A closed court in Mongolia has convicted three men of the 1998 murder of Sanjaasuren Zorig, a politician remembered for leading the East Asian country's peaceful transition to democracy. Perhaps that makes Rothkopf an exceptionalist. And I thought with Rothkopf, he was essentially arguing that Trump, by definition, was against the American idea. But he’s using fascist political tactics to build power, galvanize power.Īndrew Keen: We had last week David Rothkopf on the show, the author of Traitor, who argues Trump is a traitor. He’s leading a hollowed out democratic government, similar to Viktor Orban’s-and not there yet but heading that way, and if he hadn’t lost, that’s where he would be. He’s not leading a fascist government yet. Matthew MacWilliams: Fascist in terms of the 20th-century context: disinformation, propaganda, gaslighting.Īndrew Keen: So you’re in the Snyder camp when it comes to fascism, and Albright.

But he uses the fascist playbook, the fascist political tactics.Īndrew Keen: Fascist in the 20th-century European context, or the way in which you define fascism in American history? We still do not have state management of the economy. I’m in good company there Jason Stanley of Yale talks about that. But he is the head of a fascist social and political movement. Matthew MacWilliams: He’s not a fascist yet by the classic definition of it.