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| Indonesian soldiers pose for a trophy photo after murdering a tribal leader in the West Papua highlands |
The world renowned Asian Human Rights Commission accuses
Indonesia of systematic genocide in West Papua, after publishing a
highly extensive report, The Neglected Genocide – Human Rights abuses
against Papuans in the Central Highlands, 1977 – 1978 of the rape,
torture and murder of more than 4000 innocent West Papuan people in the
Central Highlands of West Papua just between 1977-1978.
You can watch ABC’s video news coverage of this shocking new report
here
The Atrocities
The AHRC believes that the total death toll of West Papuans
resulting from this one Indonesian military operation in just one year
could be well over 10,000 people.
The report says Papuans in the Central Highlands were victims of
napalm bombing and indiscriminate shooting from the air, sometimes from
aircraft supplied to the Indonesian military by Australia and the US.
In one reported incident, villagers in the Bolakme area were told
they would be receiving aerial aid from Australia, only to be bombed by
American-supplied planes.
The report also contains graphic details of independence supporters
being burned alive, boiled alive, and being forced to perform sexual
acts in public.
In other incidents, the report claims women and children were
targeted: children’s heads were cut off, women were raped and had their
breasts cut off and internal organs pulled out.
A Papuan shows the
skull of his family member that was murdered by the Indonesian military
during the massacre in 1977-78
A spokesman for the Asian Human Rights Commission Basil Fernando
says some of those named in the report are still in positions of power
within the Indonesian military.
We join the AHRC in calling for an ad hoc human rights court to be
set up to hear the allegations and try those responsible, as well as the
establishment of a truth commission.
We also join them in calling on the international community to
demand the Indonesian government be held to account for human rights
violations in Papua.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Please help to share this article and images throughout the
internet and the world to let the world know what is really happening to
the people of West Papua.
Atrocities such as this will only stop happening when the outside
world begins to see the horror and oppression that all West Papuans,
including children continue to face on a daily basis under Indonesian
military rule.
Please support the work of the Free West Papua Campaign.
We are a voluntary organisation and every donation we receive is
used to help free the people of West Papua.
Visit the take action page of our website and also consider
donating to the campaign.
This genocide will not stop until West Papua is fully free and
independent. Please contact Mr. Erfi Triassunu Commander of Regional
Military Command XVII Cendrawasih (Kemiliteran Daerah Papua / Kodam
Papua) Jl. Polimak atas Jayapura Provinsi Papua
INDONESIA Fax: +62
967 533763,
ND Head of Police in Papua – Tito Karnavia:
and ask them to immediately cease such horrific military operations
such as these which continue to this day.Not only have literally none
of those responsible for these war crimes been held accountable for
them, they are still committing the very same war crimes to this day.
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