Murdered journalist buried in Ukraine 16 years after beheading

People mourn during the funeral of opposition journalist Georgiy Gongadze, who was killed in 2000, during a funeral ceremony near the Church of Mykola Naberezhny in Kiev, Ukraine, March 22, 2016. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

KIEV (Reuters) - An investigative journalist whose murder 16 years ago helped precipitate Ukraine's Orange Revolution was buried in Kiev on Tuesday after a delay due to his mother's unwillingness to accept his decapitated body was her son.

One of hundreds of mourners at Georgiy Gongadze's funeral said its postponement, which persisted even after she died in 2013, was also motivated by unanswered questions over who ordered the killing and why.