For AFAD, 2004 was very painful. Aasia Jeelani of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons was killed by a landmine blast in an election monitoring duty in the north of Kashmir on April 20, 2004. Four months later, on September 7, 2004, Munir, the Federation’s Chairperson, was poisoned by a lethal dosage of arsenic in a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam and died two hours before arrival. The loss of these two committed human rights defenders caused us pain beyond words can describe.