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THE WEEK, Page 14WORLDAn Unfitting End
Germany's original Green, Petra Kelly, dies at the hand of her
lover
The deaths were as puzzling as they were a contradiction of
what Petra Kelly had stood for. Ten years ago she was the
personification of the German environmental and peace movements.
One of the founders of the German Green Party, Kelly was a
member of the West German Bundestag until 1990, when her party
failed to win enough votes to remain in the parliament. Over the
years, she had fallen out with many of her fractious party
colleagues and became a marginal figure. Her compatriots were
shocked into remembrance of Kelly, however, when she and her
longtime lover and fellow Green Party founder, Gert Bastian,
were found dead in their Bonn house. The state of the corpses
indicated that they had been dead for some weeks and that
Bastian had either shot Kelly while she slept or with her
acquiescence, before shooting himself. No note was left.
Slight of build, Kelly, 44, had thrown herself with
passion into campaigns against the stationing of
intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Germany and for the
creation of an ecologically sound public policy. The founding
of the Greens made her perhaps the world's best-known
environmentalist.
Bastian, a former Bundeswehr major general who was 69 when
he died, had written an open letter in September decrying
recent xenophobic attacks that had "spread like wildfire over
the land." But there was no sign that the shootings were meant
as political protest or, for that matter, anything else.