Word: munir
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...Minister's office and the Speaker of the Parliament. (In parliamentary elections later this year , the AKP is expected to be returned to power, albeit with a reduced mandate). The election to all three top positions of officials who "come from the same Islamic-rooted tree," writes columnist Metin Munir in the leading secularist daily Milliyet, augurs "the end of Turkey as we know it. "Turkey, he warned, is about to enter "a period of Islamicizing and conservatism: It is hard to tell where it will...
...Sept. 7, 2004, Indonesia's leading human-rights activist, Munir Said Thalib, boarded a Garuda Airlines flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam to take up a scholarship at a Dutch university. But by the time the plane touched down at Schiphol, Munir was dead?poisoned, an autopsy revealed, by arsenic in his orange juice. Last week Indonesia's Supreme Court, declaring there was insufficient evidence, overturned the conviction and 14-year prison sentence of former Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Priyanto, the only suspect charged in Munir's death. Rights groups worldwide slammed the acquittal, with Human Rights Watch calling it a "failure...
...Supreme Court ruling also offers another chance for justice. Munir's supporters have always viewed Priyanto as the fall guy for a larger conspiracy to murder a man who spoke out against abuses of power by Indonesia's military and the former Suharto regime. Priyanto will walk free as early as March, after serving a two-year sentence for forging papers to get on Munir's flight. His release "could be a chance for us to determine who was really behind Munir's death and what role the intelligence services played," says Usman Hamid, coordinator of Kontras, the rights group...
...People have given everything, their homes, their blood, their children, so what we give back is nothing compared to that," said Munir, one of the officials in charged of recording claims in Haret Hreik High School. "We have the will and strength. I don't know where the money comes from, but our leaders tell us we have all we need. In a few weeks it will become clear if it came from Iran or the Arab countries...
...Their reconstruction system relies on an intimate knowledge of the damaged neighborhoods and a reputation for efficiency and incorruptibility. Munir showed TIME detailed diagrams of the buildings in Haret Hreik with files listing the inhabitants of each building, the size of their apartments, whether the resident was an owner or renter, and phone numbers of those who could afford phones. All a resident has to do is show up at the school -with or without identification, deeds, or leases -ˇ and a Hizballah representative assigned to their building checks to make sure that their claim was legitimate. Very few people...