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Review: US State Dept 2012 Human Rights Report on West Papua
Ham :: France | 2 days ago
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Department of State annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012 includes a detailed review of Indonesia . As in past years, this portion of the Report devotes significant attention to developments in West Papua. The heavy focus on the
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Peace Negotiators Condemn Deadly Shootings of Papuans
West New York :: NJ :: USA | 13 days ago
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Indonesia On 1 May 1963 We, the Papuan Peace Negotiating Team, condemn the brutal act of the Indonesian army against the civilian Papuans who marked the 50th anniversary in the cities of Sorong, Biak and the Papua provincial capital of Jayapura.
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West Papua: Indonesian Takeover Commeration Banned
West New York :: NJ :: USA | 16 days ago
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This decision, which was also explicitly endorsed by the Governor of Papua, breached the freedom of expression and association which is enshrined by the 1945 Indonesian Constitution. The ban also represents a reactive, paranoid and discriminative
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Indonesian Security Forces Conduct Violent Sweeps
Wellington :: New Zealand | 18 days ago
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Thousands of members of civil society organisations are today converging on Jayapura, West Papua, to hold the demonstrations, however, reports from West Papua Media stringers on the ground in Jayapura have documented a series of brutal raids to
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Political Stigmatisation Towards Indigenous West Papuans
Manokwari :: Indonesia | 2 months ago
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An effort of the Republic of Indonesia to kill Self-Determination for the People of Papua ...This is absolutely excessive(as translated) Reverend Socrates S. Yoman, the General Chairperson of the Fellowship of Baptist Churches in Papua (Source :
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Police spin on Papua under fire
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 5 months ago
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On Wednesday, National Police Criminal Investigation Division (Bareskrim) chief Comr. Gen. Sutarman said the police would use Antiterrorism Law No.15/2003 to deal with individuals or groups terrorizing people in Papua, including those attacking
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Democratic RI still holds political prisoners
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 9 months ago
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According to Selphius, then leader of the United Front of West Papuan Fighters, what he and members of the organization did amounted to an exercise of their political rights as Papuans, and the central government should have respected it. We held the
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Cleric Compares Papua Media Coverage to Apartheid S. Africa
Port Elizabeth :: South Africa | 9 months ago
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West Papua Media / Jubi / Pacific Media Watch ): News of Papua published by local and Indonesian national mass media has been likened to media operating under censorship in South Africa's apartheid era by Benny Giay, chairman of the Synod of Kingmi
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INDONESIA: Let the voices of Papua be heard
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 10 months ago
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The focus of his and his organisation's work is human rights issues that take place in the central mountain area of Papua. It has been said that there has been an escalated violence in Papua recently...In my view, violence in Papua has been happening
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Government needs to play nice when dealing with Papuan conflicts
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 10 months ago
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The latest bloody incident in Papua was the killing of three people one soldier and two civilians last Saturday. This took place with authorities still unable to identify those behind the killing of three men earlier this month. Munafrizal Manan, of
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