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Ex-Indonesian Intel Official Charged with Murdering Activist

HeadlineAug 21, 2008

In Indonesia, prosecutors formally charged a former top intelligence official with the murder of a prominent human rights activist who died of arsenic poisoning during a flight to the Netherlands in 2004. Prosecutors said Muchdi Purwoprandjono, the former deputy chief of Indonesia’s National Intelligence Agency, had assigned an agent to poison Munir Thalib, an outspoken critic of the country’s military. The prosecutor said Munir was killed because he unveiled the kidnapping of thirteen rights activists by an army special force team in 1997 and 1998 when Suharto was in power.

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