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March 26, 2010

Indonesian Human Rights Groups Call on Army to Stop Denying Assassination Report
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Indonesian human rights groups held a news conference today in Jakarta,
the Indonesian capital, calling on the Indonesian army to stop denying
the exposé by journalist Allan Nairn that US-backed Indonesian armed
forces assassinated a series of civilian activists in the province of
Aceh last year. The human rights groups called on police to arrest those
responsible for the assassinations and distributed Nairn’s piece to the
press. The two human rights groups, Kontras and Imparsial, were founded
by Munir, the country’s leading human rights advocate who was
assassinated by Indonesian intelligence in 2004.



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