
The former head of Indonesia's national airline faces 20 years in jail over the killing of an outspoken human rights activist whose in-flight meal was laced with a massive dose of arsenic.
The poisoning of Munir Said Thalib in 2004 silenced one of the most ardent critics of Indonesia's military, a lawyer who, at 38, had spent much of his life exposing the corruption and human rights abuses wrought by its officers.
There is a basic question of trust here. If airlines are now going to be deployed to kill undesirables, we are opening a whole new can of worms here and it's potential impact on travelling.
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