ONE YEAR GONE: Activists from the group People's Solidarity for Munir stage a demonstration in front of the State Palace in Jakarta in observance of the first anniversary of human rights campaigner's murder. They demanded on Wednesday that the court find out who masterminded the murder. Munir died from a lethal dose of arsenic while on a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam. (JP/Arief Suhardiman)
Who Killed Munir?
Rich Bowden
Worldpress.org
contributing editorSydney, Australia
December 24, 2004
Human rights in the sense of human solidarity has created a new universal and equal language going beyond racial, gender, ethnic or religious boundaries. That is why we consider it a doorway to dialogue for people of all socioeconomic groups and all ideologies.— Munir Said Thalib
With the police investigation into the poisoning of Munir Said Thalib — Indonesia’s leading human rights activist — seemingly stalled, his family and colleagues have linked his death to his tireless campaigning against corruption and human rights abuses. Opinions vary though on whom among his many enemies may have ordered the suspected assassination. Despite the interviewing of dozens of witnesses by Indonesian authorities, the identity of those responsible for the killing remains a mystery.
On the evening of Sept. 6, while flying on Garuda Flight 974 from Jakarta to Amsterdam to take up a scholarship to study international law at Utrecht University, the 38-year-old human rights campaigner and founder of the human rights organization Kontras became violently ill.
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