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We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia
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Author:
Matt Easton
Publisher:
The New Press
Date:
June 7, 2022
A chilling work of true crime about the midair murder of Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib in 2004, set against a political drama in the world's fourth-largest nation.
What The Reviewers Say
...reads like a gripping legal-procedural whodunnit, as evidence is slowly unearthed from telephone records, lost documents are retrieved from deleted computer files and intriguing new witnesses emerge.
Easton patiently leads the reader through this net of bloodshed and subterfuge, while skilfully placing the story in the context of Indonesia’s troubled political history. Perhaps because the author is himself a human rights activist, the storytelling lacks the sensationalism of a more journalistic account. There is a steady resolve in the way Easton approaches his formidably complex material, and he never loses sight of the fact that, behind the sheer extravagance of the case, there is a grimmer story of brutality, cruelty and lives brought to ruin..
Drawing on evidence gathered by Munir’s family, Easton makes a persuasive case.
