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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 ...
On 21 March 2024 the video of Kogoya’s torture surfaced, initially the Indonesian Army claimed the video was a hoax and was edited, Maj. Gen. Izak Pangemanan told reporters "There have never been complaints about harsh behavior towards the community. We're still confirming the video." [8] [9] [8]
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 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 ...
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".
On 14 February, members of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), the armed wing of the OPM, released several photos and videos of the New Zealand pilot Phillip Mark Mehrtens to the Associated Press. The rebel spokesperson Sebby Sambom stated that his group had released the five civilian hostages since they were indigenous Papuans.
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 ...
In August 2022, Mimika military police identified 10 anonymous suspects. From 29 August to 17 September 2022, 9 of the 10 suspects were arrested, four of them (Andre Pudjianto Lee, Dul Uman, Rafles Laksana, and Roy Marten Howay) being civilians, with Howay, an Ayamaru Papuan, having evaded capture and the other six being active soldiers, the soldiers being a captain (Dominggus Kainama), a ...