Indonesian security forces killed two demonstrators and wounded several more when they fired into a crowd of peaceful protesters in West Papua on March 15, reports Susan Price.
West Papua
December 1, 2021, marks 60 years since the state of West Papua came into being. But Papuans are still struggling to achieve their independence, writes Yamin Kogoya.
While Indonesian soldiers are taking part in a joint training exercise with 150 Australian troops in the Northern Territory, West Papuan civilians are fleeing Indonesian military operations in the Maybrat region, reports Susan Price.
Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea have聽raised the issue of regional human rights at a recent United Nations General Assembly meeting, a move聽welcomed by West Papuans, reports Yamin Kogoya.
West Papua activists are calling on Australia to raise concerns about the聽Indonesian military's human rights abuses in West Papua, when they meet with their Indonesian counterparts, reports Susan Price.
A Papuan leader sought by Indonesian police over the 2019 Papua 鈥淪pring鈥 uprising, Victor Yeimo, has been arrested on suspicion of treason, reports Susan Price.
Indonesia is labelling聽West Papuan activists as "terrorist"聽to criminalise the movement and depict them as radical extremists in the eyes of the international community, writes Yamin Kogoya.
Branding armed Papuan resistance groups as 鈥渢errorists鈥 has sparked strong condemnation from human rights groups across Indonesia and in West Papua, writes David Robie.
West Papua solidarity activists fear an escalation of violence in West Papua, reports Susan Price.
David Robie reviews Australian journalist John Martinkus's new book about the Trans-Papua Highway, which is bringing military occupation, exploitation, environmental destruction and colonisation to West Papua.
All around the world, supporters of the long struggle for West Papuan self-determination raised the Morning Star flag of independence on December 1, writes Peter Boyle.
The armed conflict in West Papua鈥檚 central highlands continues to deteriorate, costing the lives of innocent civilians, writes Human Rights and Peace for Papua.
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