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Richard Chauvel, Ikrar Nusa Bhakti, The Papua conflict: Jakarta's perceptions and policies, 2004, ISBN 1-932728-08-2, ISBN 978-1-932728-08-8; J. Budi Hernawan, Papua land of peace: addressing conflict building peace in West Papua, 2005; King, Blair (2006). Peace in Papua: widening a window of opportunity. Council on Foreign Relations.
Brown travelled and filmed in West Papua without the permission of the Indonesian authorities, putting himself in great danger. [2] Brown reflected that on West Papua the situation was "like apartheid", and likened the transmigration program and anti-secession policies to "genocide".
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 ]
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.
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.
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The 2019 Papua protests were a series of protests by Papuans in Indonesia that began on 19 August 2019 and mainly took place across Indonesian Papua region in response to the arrests of 43 Papuan students in Surabaya, East Java for alleged disrespect of the Indonesian flag.
In almost all estimates, under International law the death toll amounts to genocide of the people of West Papua by Indonesia. A Sydney University academic has estimated more than 100,000 Papuans , one sixteenth of the population, have died as a result of government-sponsored violence against West Papuans, [ 28 ] while others had previously ...