1) AHRC-INDONESIA: Military members shot civilians and burned their properties in Wamena, West Papua
2) Tribal Clash in Papua Kills Two: Police
4)Breaking news, Kwamki Lama, TIMIKA, WEST PAPUA
5) Govt has comprehensive design on
Papua
6) Dismay at NZ training of Indonesian
abuser
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1)
AHRC-INDONESIA: Military members shot civilians and burned their properties in
Wamena, West Papua
INDONESIA: Military members shot civilians and burned their properties in
Wamena, WestPapua
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ASIAN
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME
Urgent
Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-103-2012
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2)
Tribal Clash in Papua Kills Two: Police
June 18, 2012
Mimika, Papua. Two
tribesmen were killed when rival groups armed with bows and arrows clashed
in Indonesia’s restive Papua province on Monday, police said.
The clash,
which also left one person critically injured, broke out in the morning
between around 500 men wearing matching striped shorts and tribal jewelry,
said an AFP correspondent who saw four police struck by arrows.
Four
vehicles, including an armored police truck, were torched in the
violence.
“Two people have died and one is in critical condition,” Mimika
district police operations head Syamsul Ridwan told AFP. “They were hit with
arrows, but we need to await autopsy results to be sure of the cause of
death.”
The dead were from Kampung Harapan, he said, whose inhabitants
regularly clash with the people of Kampung Amole.
They had last fought on
June 6 after the death of a tribe member in a road accident and Monday’s
violence was probably related to that incident, Ridwan said.
Police had
been unable to control the situation, he said, “overwhelmed” by the number
of armed men.
Several large tribes live side by side in Mimika district,
and killings are usually settled traditionally with compensation and
communal feasts.
Agence France-Presse
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3)
RNZI Posted at 05:51 on 18 June, 2012 UTC
There are reports of further violence in
Indonesia’s Papua region.
West Papuan monitoring group, the Institute of
Papuan Advocacy and Human Rights, or Elsham, says two middle-aged men were
shot by police this morning.
The reports say the men, who were brothers, were
part of a group doing a traditional war dance in Timika in the Highlands
when they were shot.
In a riot that followed buildings and vehicles were
set alight.
It comes after several weeks of heightened violence
in the region, including the killing last week of a prominent indigenous
leader.
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on AWPA list
4)Breaking news, Kwamki
Lama, TIMIKA, WEST PAPUA
Report
from Timika (Crime scene), 18 June 2012, 09.30 (Papua Local Time)
Indonesian
Police shot to dead civilians in Timika
This
morning, 18 June 2012, at around 09.20am (Papua local time), Indonesian
Police shot to dead two siblings brothers, Andelius Ongomang (45yo) and Dony
Ongomang (43yo). Local witnesses said that there is no fighting at all
(between the two groups who are in conflict in Timika) in the crime scene,
they all are on stand guards only. At around 09.20am one of the group (Kubu
Atas) were doing war traditional dancing, immediately the police fire the
guns toward the group, result in two were shot. Dony was shot in the head.
Because of the shooting incident the Kubu Atas group shot their arrows
against the police and other group (Kubu Bawah). Some civilians were
reported injures and mass burnt 1 vehicle of the police. TNI and Police
troops with their vehicles are in the conflict area now.
Paula
Makabory
IPAHR
Australia
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5) Govt has comprehensive design
on Papua
Sun, June 17 2012 20:17 | 250 Views
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government remains
committed to developing Papua into a land of peace as declared by President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in 2004.
President Yudhoyono is pursuing peaceful and dignified
approaches and dialogs to solve the problems in Papua, Velix Wanggai, a
presidential special staff in charge of regional development and autonomy,
said in a press statement here Sunday.
The head of state always reminded ministers, police
and military chiefs to manage Papua with conscience, and not to think
"business as usual". They must make a breakthrough and think
outside the box in handling Papua.
Since President Yudhoyono was reappointed as the
president for the second term in October 2009, the government has been
committed to solving problems in Papua.
The government has a comprehensive design
consisting of five points on Papua, namely affirming Indonesia`s unitary
state while respecting Papua`s diversity and uniqueness; optimizing the
Papua status as a special autonomous region; pursuing affirmative policies
to recognize the basic rights of Papua people such as access to education;
designing strategies, policies, fundings and programs to promote development
and empower the Papua people; and promoting the human rights as well as
preventing violence. (*)
Editor: Aditia Maruli
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6)
Dismay at NZ training of Indonesian abuser
17:49 Mon Jun 18 2012
AAP
A
member of a notorious Indonesian military special forces unit linked to
human rights violations in East Timor and West Papua has trained with the
New Zealand Defence Force, it's been revealed.
Major
Edwin Sumanta of the Kopassus special forces participated in a course at the
Command and Staff College at Trentham between May and December last year,
New Zealand Defence Force spokesman Major John Gordon told NZ Newswire.
New
Zealand's Indonesian Human Rights Committee was shocked to discover a
Kopassus officer had participated in the training course, spokeswoman Maire
Leadbetter said.
Kopassus
has a long history of involvement in human rights abuses, including
massacres in East Timor in the decades it was occupied by Indonesia, and the
ongoing violence in West Papua, she said.
"It
just came as a real blow us, the thought that we would be training the worst
of the worst," Ms Leadbetter told NZ Newswire.
Kopassus
has also been linked to the killing of five journalists, including New
Zealand cameraman Gary Cunningham, who were working for Australian
television networks, at Balibo in 1975, prior to Indonesia's invasion of
East Timor.
Ms
Leadbetter said New Zealand should suspend defence ties with Indonesia,
until such time as the Indonesian military has been held accountable for its
past violations.
The
annual 32-week Joint Command and Staff course prepares officers for senior
level appointments and includes studies in command leadership and
management, international relations and international law and ethics, Major
Gordon said.
About
30 per cent of course participants are international students, he said.
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