Indonesian Government - mass murderers?

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Apriyantono, Megawati and Bambang: Mass Murderers?
By Bali BS News
Oct 30, 2005, 05:41

This is an old article and a long one, but worth reading.I have included portions; the entire article can be read at the link at the end.

Apriyantono - Mass Murderer?
This is not a nice story, it may end up being the sad prelude article to the death of millions of people worldwide at the hands of a nasty, lying, cheating Indonesian Government; in particular it seems Anton Apriyantono the Agriculture Minister, Megawati Sukarnoputri the former president and Susilo Bambang the current president. It is about how Indonesian and International experts state the Indonesian Government and Authorities are risking a worldwide epidemic of a human-to-human variant of the deadly bird flu H5N1 through what is clearly corruption, of course, and by trying to cover the truth up in the puerile hope the problem will just go away and not affect business.

First let us pay credit and great thanks to an Indonesian hero and Indonesian heroine; microbiologist Professor Chairul A. Nidom, who first detected the virus and has since broken ranks over the outbreak, and Indonesia's former national director of animal health, Tri Satya Putri Naipospos.

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So what did one of Indonesia’s seemingly few exceptions to this rule, former national director of animal health Tri Satya Putri Naipospos say a few days ago?

1) Bird flu deaths in Indonesia actually started in the summer of 2003, but “lobbying” (we believe this is the word used by Indonesians who want to avoid being sued for criminal libel to describe “corruption” or “pay-offs” or “bribes”) by the eight Indonesian farming conglomerates which account for 60% of the nation’s poultry, whose owners have personal ties to senior Agriculture Ministry officials (of course), was used to keep this quiet. Ms. Naipospos says that even Megawati Sukarnoputri herself was “lobbied”.

2) The problem actually started in commercial poultry farms, but because of the successful “lobbying campaign” to keep things quiet and to dissuade any action or research, H5N1 was able to spread to free range chickens owned by everyday people. While the government failed to act and even discouraged action, some poor souls have subsequently become infected and died.

3) The Indonesian Government told the world its’ centerpiece strategy was to vaccinate poultry against the virus, but had failed to fund this effort at all this year. So it is claiming to be taking action to the outside world, yet is not.

Professor Chairul A. Nidom, the microbiologist who first identified the virus in the summer of 2003 has also broken ranks with the government; his words indicating they are nothing more then a group of liars and cheats. snioProfessor Nidom also says that H5N1 had spread across Java to Bali and into Sumatra. That’s right, while a certain likely psychotic corrupt police colluding travel agent come email newspaper service editor in Bali by the name of John M. Daniels was repeating the government’s nasty lie or line that there were no reported cases of H5N1 in his personal spin campaign called the “Bali Update” just 2 or 3 weeks ago. The microbiologist professor who was responsible for analyzing samples from across Indonesia says the deadly chicken flu has been present in Bali for over a year!

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Indeed, International health experts are warning that Indonesia has grossly underestimated or rather understated the number of H5N1 infections and have lied about the actions they are taking. Of course these disgraceful events will come as no shock to every day Indonesians and Balinese. Over the years they have become used to cases of “Grubug” (deadly illness coming from animals), where the sick are mysteriously carted off and never come back. And how many people around the world could not believe or understand how Indonesia with its terrible health services and prevention, plus its tremendous population movements was able to escape the SARS outbreak? We don’t believe Indonesia did escape SARS. We believe they lied about it and hid the evidence; the unfortunate sick and dying people who contracted it.

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Since writing this article, suspected cases of H5N1 have been reported in Bali, at a market near Denpasar and the Australian Federal Government is warning its citizens not to get caught in outbreak areas.

http://www.balibs.org/news-update/printer_Indonesian-Flu-H5N1.shtml