Al Jazeera
56 A low-level insurgency in the province remains an extremely sensitive issue for the government [Reuters] Rioters angry over the killing of an independence activist by police set fires and killed one person in Indonesia's Papua province before...
The New York Times
June 15, 2012 Angry residents of the island of Papua burned cars and shops on Thursday after an independence activist was shot and killed, the police and human rights activists said. A low-level insurgency for independence has simmered on Papua,...
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Mako Tabuni, during a botched arrest attempt while he was chewing betel nut at a kiosk in Abepura, West Papua early on Thursday morning. According to credible independent church human rights sources in Jayapura that spoke to witnesses in Waena, Mako...
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Human Rights Watch urged Indonesia to accept calls made at the United Nations Human Rights Council to permit access to the province and to issue standing invitations to UN human rights experts...It needs to let the media and civil society shine a...
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The executive director, Poengky Indarti said that if the police suspected that Mako Tabuni was involved in recent acts of violence , they should have acted in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Code 'It is extremely regrettable that the...
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Mako Tabuni, senior Papuan leaders accuse Australian and U.S trained Detachment 88 of being behind the slaying. Mako Musa Tabuni was shot dead by Densus 88 with three bullets...His corpse is still being held at the Bhayangkara Police Hospital...As of...