Jonathan Rugman meets the family of 32-year-old Pim de Kuijer, an Aids campaigner who also worked as an election observer in Ukraine: who died in the very country where he’d campaigned for freedom.
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6 years today… my friend and I met Pim at our weekly bootcamp club, early sunday mornings at park Frankendael in East Amsterdam. We didnโt know he was on that plane until two weeks after, hearing it from our trainer and seeing faces coming by on television and web. We just knew him as the nice guy with the big sweet smile, in the all-light grey sport attire and worked out together, having fun. He had such a calm and positive vibe over him. Rest in peace
No tears at all. Probably because these people have narcisstic syndrome and Pim was not their favourite child unlike Paul in the video.
Russia has got to be just the worst.
Their propaganda outlets/news agencies immediately put as many nutter conspiracy theories out as possible to get every dopy conspiracy theorist and far left or right nut case on their side.ย Then that obstructs any real news or investigation as best as possible.ย
I knew pim quite well as he was my aunts best friend and was actually heading over here for the aids conference and was supossed to see my aunt. She is devastated he is gone and so are many many people.
Why do they look happy with a smile? No tears at all.