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Puncak Jaya - February 4, 2014 A report
in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper recounts the shocking story of a
violent interrogation carried out by the Indonesian military and police
in a village in the Puncak Jaya region of West Papua. The report details
how villagers were woken up at 3am and one by one interrogated in the
church yard. One of the victims states: “We were … surrounded by soldiers who were using guns … We were all terrified.”
The most shocking part of the report reads: ‘The victim said at
least 200 police and army personnel were involved in the alleged
operation and that seven villagers were arrested. “They were beaten up
then taken away to the place of detention at the military post.” Among
those detained were a church minister, office workers and local
government department bureaucrats, he said.
The victim said he and other villagers were kicked and beaten
with rifle butts while detained in the church until midday on Sunday 26
January, and that they remained “very scared”.
“The situation is not suitable yet to go into the town. The
community is empty. There are five churches and they are also now
empty,” he said when Guardian Australia spoke to him on Tuesday.
Two families were also forced at gunpoint to burn down their own houses, he said.’
The interrogation follows low level fighting between the Indonesian
Military and an armed section of the Free Papua Movement (OPM). However
the OPM claim full responsibility for their actions, “We carried out all
the actions as acts of resistance in Puncak Jaya, to decide our own
destiny. It wasn’t the community and church minister who they viciously
treated that carried out those acts,” a spokesperson for the OPM, Yunus
Enumbi, told West Papuan news outlet Jubi.
The full report can be read here.
Sumber : www.freewestpapua.org
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