WikiLeaks US Cables Point to BIN Role in Munir Murder

Recently leaked US adept cables about the annihilation of animal rights apostle Munir Said Thalib could advice authorities bare the accuracy and accuse the absolute perpetrators, activists said on Friday.
“The cables assertive us added that top-level admiral of the State Intelligence Agency [BIN] were complex in the murder,” said Al Araf, affairs administrator of animal rights accumulation Imparsial.
“Then-Chief of National Badge Sutanto allegedly knew about the BIN captivation but he was defective affirmation to accuse its officials. Now, afterwards the cables were fabricated public, we animate Sutanto to affirm in the court.”
The Indonesian courts accept approved above BIN agent administrator Muchdi Purwoprandjono for acclimation the murder, but the retired Army accepted was acquitted of all accuse due to a abridgement of evidence. Prosecutors’ appeals adjoin the absolution accept been unsuccessful.
“To accomplish the case go to balloon again, prosecutors should appeal a case analysis at the Supreme Court. When the cloister audition in the case resumes, Sutanto can testify,” Al Araf said.
The cables, appear by WikiLeaks, declared that above BIN arch Hendropriyono “chaired two affairs at which Munir’s assassination was planned” and a attestant at those affairs told badge that “only the time and adjustment of the annihilation afflicted from the affairs he heard discussed; aboriginal affairs were to annihilate Munir in his office.”
Al Araf said that afore aggravating Hendropriyono, authorities should focus on Muchdi.
“First things first. Prosecutors charge to resume the balloon adjoin Muchdi by allurement for a case analysis and again we can move to added accessible high-profile suspects, including Hendropriyono,” he said.
The fate of the acknowledged affairs in the annihilation case rests with Admiral Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said Haris Azhar, the coordinator of the nongovernmental Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras).
“If the admiral leaves the case unnoticed, again the advocate accepted will never ask for a case analysis adjoin Muchdi’s acquittal,” Haris said.
Munir was berserk in September 2004 as he flew from Jakarta to Amsterdam. Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, a above Garuda Indonesia pilot, has been bedevilled of putting a baleful dosage of arsenic into his drink.
Prosecutors accept accused Muchdi of acclimation the killing out of acrimony over Munir’s criticisms of his administration of the Army’s Special Forces assemblage (Kopassus).