Det er noe av håpet om en bedre verden som blir mindre, når mennesker som Munir Said Thalib drepes. Omtalen forteller om et usedvanlig menneske. Human Rights Watch’s deputy program director, John Saunders:

«Munir was in a class by himself, he had an electric intelligence and an encyclopedic memory. In meetings, he was able to draw on a kaleidoscope of detailed fact and sharp analytical insight to present a clear image of what needed to be done.»

Munir ble 38 år. Han rakk å sende en SMS til kona om at han var forgiftet.

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.

Suffering from acute diarrhea and bouts of vomiting shortly after the flight left the Indonesian capital, Munir was treated by a doctor on board the plane but pronounced dead a short time before the plane landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. While on the plane Munir had managed to send an SMS message to his wife Suciwati, claiming he was the victim of food poisoning.

A subsequent autopsy conducted by the Netherlands Forensic Institute in Amsterdam revealed that Munir had died of arsenic poisoning. Over 460 mg of undigested arsenic was discovered in Munir’s stomach and with any amount over 200mg normally considered lethal, the dose proved fatal to the slight-framed man.

Who Killed Munir?