Walter Litvinenko , father of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, is escorted by a policeman to the main entrance to University College London Hospital after speaking to the media about his son's death, Friday Nov. 24, 2006. Alexander Litvinenko a former Russian spy died Nov. 23 at the hospital of suspected poisoning. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Russian Defector Alexander Litvinenko accused Putin of his murder from beyond the grave on Friday, in a statement read out the morning after he died of an unknown poison in a London hospital.
"You have shown yourself to have no respect for life, liberty or any civilized value. You have shown yourself to be unworthy of your office, to be unworthy of the trust of civilized men and women," Litvinenko said.
"You may succeed in silencing one man. But a howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life. May God forgive you for what you have done," Litvinenko said in a statement read out by friends.
"You may succeed in silencing me, but that silence comes at a price. You have shown yourself to be as barbaric and ruthless as your most hostile critics claim," his statement said.
"My son died yesterday. He was killed by a little tiny nuclear bomb. It was so little, so small that you couldn't see it," his weeping father Walter Litvinenko said outside the hospital where he died.
"This regime is a murderous danger to the world ... If we just let it go, if we go about our daily business as usual, this regime will get at all of us," he added, his voice choked with emotion Bureau reports.
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