Wednesday, April 11, 2007

President told to announce investigation result of Munir killing

JAKARTA (JP): President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was told the unveil the result of investigation by the Fact Finding Team to the killing of right activist Munir Thalib on his flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam in 2004.
Former deputy chairman of the team Asmara Nababan told the press conference Wednesday that the announcement of the work of the fact finding team would help the police to carry out their investigation.
"Under his own decree, the president has responsibility to announce it (the result of the fact finding team)," said Nababan, who is also former member of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas Ham).
Human rights activists from a number of non-governmental organizations attended the press conference. They also expressed their disappointments that the police had not announced the namesof the new suspects.
"It was not announcement. It was just a short statement," Usman Hamid, coordinator of the Committee for Missing People and Victims of Violence (Kontras), was quoted as saying referring the a statement made by National Polite Chief Gen. Sutanto, saying that police had named more than one suspect in case.
Rachlan Nashidik of Imparsial right group told the police to cooperate with former members of the fact finding team on munir murder in carrying out investigation.
Munir was murdered in September, 2004 with a lethal dose of arsenic. A district court sentenced pilot Pollycarpus Priyanto to 14 years in prison, but later the Supreme Court declared him innocence for the killing. (**)

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