Reenactment of Munir mystery

Reenactment of Munir mystery

JAKARTA: The government-sanctioned fact-finding team and the
police are set to stage a reenactment of what happened on board the
Garuda Indonesia flight from Jakarta to Singapore that carried
well-known rights activist Munir to his death.

"We hope to conduct the reconstruction in the third week of
February but it also depends on when Garuda Indonesia will be
able to provide us with the aircraft and the crew members
involved in the case," said Usman Hamid, a member of the fact-
finding team, on Friday.

Munir, the founder of both Imparsial and the Commission for
Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), died of
apparent arsenic poisoning aboard a Garuda flight on Sept. 7,
2004, on his way to Amsterdam.

Usman also said that his team would study the video tapes from
the surveillance cameras in the boarding area of Soekarno Hatta
International Airport from the time when Munir boarded his
flight.

"By viewing the tapes, we hope to find out who Munir met in
the boarding area," Usman said.

He added that so far the fact-finding team had questioned six
people, and intended to question three of these further. -- JP