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Tonga – Tongan Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pōhiva urged the world to take action on the human rights situation in Indonesia's West Papua region. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] Tuvalu – Former Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga supported Papuan self-determination at the United Nations General Assembly in 2017 and signed a joint statement with other Pacific island ...
Channel 4 News, UK (short segment used for report on West Papua) – October 2010 [5] Isolated - 2014. Clips feature in this documentary that follows a group of surfers who set out to West Papua to film one of the world's last undiscovered surfs and stumble upon the human rights crisis.
The Indonesian army issued a rare apology on Monday and said 13 soldiers had been arrested after a video emerged showing a man being tortured by troops in the country's Papua region, where armed ...
The Road to Home is a 2015 feature-length documentary [1] about Benny Wenda, the West Papuan independence leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. [2] Since his escape from an Indonesian prison in 2002, [3] where he was held in isolation and tortured as a political prisoner, [4] Benny has been an unceasing crusader on the international scene, campaigning to bring about an end to the suffering of ...
Papua province, the location of the massacre, has seen low-level insurgency since its incorporation into Indonesia. While the rest of the former Dutch East Indies were recognised in 1949 as part of the new country of Indonesia , the Dutch held onto Western New Guinea until handing it to Indonesian administration in 1963. [ 3 ]
The Biak massacre was the killing of West Papuan pro-independence demonstrators on the island of Biak, Papua Province, Indonesia, in 1998.. On the morning of 2 July 1998, unarmed villagers, including Nobel Peace prize nominee and political prisoner Filep Karma raised the West Papuan Morning Star flag at a water tower.
November 2020: UN human rights office said they were concerned with the escalating violence in Papua & West Papua province. As per the report by OHCHR , military, security forces and nationalist militias are involved in the violence, extrajudicial killings and torture of the protesters and human rights defenders.
On 10 October 2021, 14 bombs were dropped onto two buildings, including the TPNPB's local headquarters. [5] According to Papuan People's Assembly [] chairman Timotius Murib, this was then followed by a series of bombings between 14 and 21 October, in which 42 bombs were dropped in residential areas within 4 villages.