WEST PAPUA : ABC RADIO REPORTS CITIES INDONESIAN ‘TERROR UNITS KILLINGS CLAIM

West Papuans raise the banned pro-independence Morning Star flag at an unspecified

Activists says 11 people were killed and 20 more are missing after a combined military and police crackdown on support for the pro-independence Free Papua Movement (OPM) in April.

The names of victims and several grisly photographs have been provided to ABC’s PM programme by the armed wing of the movement.

It is impossible to verify the claims, but Indonesia’s Embassy in Canberra has agreed to take up the matter.
Indonesian police say the claims are untrue. The Papua police spokesman, Inspector Gede Sumerta Jaya, says the killings did not happen and that unit does not operate in the Papua provinces anymore.

The disputed Indonesian Papua province is the least populated but most restive corner of Australia’s vast near neighbour.

For 50 years Papuans have agitated for independence from their Javanese masters in a campaign fought bitterly on both sides………..Read More >>>