'Someone needs to answer for Anton Hammerl's death'

I let him go to cover a war, writes Penny Sukhraj-Hammerl, and now I need to find out why my husband never returned — and who was responsible for his death

11 April 2021 - 00:00 By Penny Sukhraj-Hammerl

I met my husband, Anton Hammerl, in the most unpleasant of situations on April 14 2000...

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