We Have Tired of Violence

Praise for We Have Tired of Violence: [We Have Tired of Violence] 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. . . . As recent history, it is meticulous and moving. -The Economist Matt Easton's We Have Tired of Violence is a detailed, carefully told treatment of [Munir's murder] drawing on substantial research. -TLS Human rights researcher Easton debuts with a chilling account of the 2004 assassination of Indonesian attorney Munir Said Thalib. . . . Easton lucidly unravels the complex history behind the murder and shines a well-deserved spotlight on and how tirelessly Munir's wife and friends have worked to expose the truth. This harrowing account unearths the insidious legacy of authoritarian regimes. -Publishers Weekly With a meticulously detailed and accurate reconstruction of the events of Munir's murder, We Have Tired of Violence charts the activist's resistance to the authoritarian regime. A must-read for those interested in Indonesia, as well as the global fight for human rights. -Leila Chudori, journalist and author of the novel The Sea Speaks His Name It is rare that a book about recent events is able to bring together the personal and political, the human and historical, into such a moving and coherent account. Post-Suharto Indonesia is a complicated, contradictory, and confounding story, which Matt Easton has explained expertly and in vivid detail. We Have Tired of Violence is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand modern Indonesia. -Brad Adams, Asia Director, Human Rights Watch A gripping, meticulously researched whodunnit, We Have Tired of Violence is a monument to the heroism of Munir and his friends-perhaps the only monument Indonesia's finest human rights campaigner will have. -Gerry van Klinken, professor emeritus of Southeast Asian Social and Economic History at the University of Amsterdam It is so important to have this kind of narrative: how one man's history crosses with the history of a nation. The idealism that cost Munir his life provides a lesson, from a very great and humble man, about the struggle for humanity. -Seno Gumira Ajidarma, writer, journalist, and author of the novel Jazz, Perfume & the Incident