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How an obituary I commissioned ended up becoming the star of a rock concert

When Glenn Greenwald wrote an obituary of his friend Marielle Franco, he didn’t expect Roger Waters to get hold of it

Peyvand Khorsandi
Wednesday 12 June 2019 13:06 BST
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In October the journalist Glenn Greenwald recalled being asked by The Independent to write an obituary of his friend Marielle Franco, the Brazilian politician who was murdered in March last year aged 37.

“My first reaction was not to do it because the emotions were still way too raw,” he wrote in The Intercept. “And that kind of personal, intimate writing isn’t what I feel comfortable doing, especially in a moment as vulnerable and difficult as that.”

Greenwald added: “But I saw it as an opportunity to process my emotions about Marielle through what I know best and what she was most – writing about political battles and causes and figures of defiance and dissent – and to try to viscerally convey to a foreign audience what made her such a singular force of inspiration.”

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