23 June, 2005

munir said thalib

This is a surprise, of sorts, and a moment to be hopeful. A government-appointed fact finding team in Indonesia have concluded that the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) was involved in the assassination of Indonesia’s best known anti-corruption and human-rights activist Munir Said Thalib.

Jakartass has a wrap, which notes that one of the country’s political fixtures, former intelligence chief Henrdopriyono, may be in trouble:

As for BIN’s suggested involvement, it can’t have helped that
former State Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief Hendropriyono and his
former deputy Muchdi Purwopranjono … both … failed to comply with
two summonses for questioning by the fact-finding team investigating
the murder of human rights campaigner Munir.
In
a staggering display of the scornful arrogance that was prevalent
during the era of former dictator Suharto, Hendropriyono … publicly
mocked the team, accusing it of being completely unprofessional and
seeking only to tarnish his name.
The
dapper retired four-star lieutenant general, nicknamed ?the Butcher of
Lampung? by his critics over a 1989 massacre of Muslim youths, is now
suing two members of the team for slander. His lawyer has derided the
late Munir and callously questioned why President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono felt it necessary to form a special team to investigate the
activist?s death.

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