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From the Communiqué

10 November 2004

CONTROVERSIAL FILMMAKER MURDERED

Dutch filmmaker and newspaper columnist Theo van Gogh was no stranger to controversy. His films provoked outrage from Muslims in the Netherlands and he received death threats. Last week in Amsterdam, he was murdered in broad daylight.



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