Pilot 'killed human rights activist with poison drink'

[emad]

By Sebastien Berger, South East Asia Correspondent
(Filed: 10/08/2005)

One of Indonesia's leading human rights activists was murdered by an off-duty pilot who put arsenic in his orange juice, a court heard yesterday.

About 30 supporters of Munir Thalib chanted "murderer, murderer" at Pollycarpus Priyanto as he was led into the hearing in Jakarta.

The trial is being seen as a test of the rule of law in Indonesia almost a decade after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, during which opponents of the regime routinely disappeared.

Activists believe that Priyanto is connected to the state intelligence agency, BIN, but the indictment alleges that he acted only with the assistance of two cabin crew.

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[zbdent]

1. Now, now, don't give freepers ideas

You know that their morals do not dissuade them from outright murder . . . despite their teachings of the Ten Commandments . . .

[BrklynLiberal]

2. There is no doubt in my mind it has been done in this country already.

Small plane crashes, seedy motel "suicides", strange single car crashes on lonely roads, sudden "strokes" and "heart attacks" of relatively young and previously healthy critics of the BFEE.

It has already happened here.

[xchrom]

3. you betcha.

why wouldn't it?
money, power and greed will always cause people to slip into the sewers.

[wli]

5. and the anthrax (near miss) and that plane crash

They're killing Congressmen, too.

[sakabatou]

4. This is why i bring my own drinks (non-alchoholic) on board