West Papua: The Torture Mode Of Governance

Counterpunch

Budi Hernawan said it ten years ago: “torture in Papua … has become a mode of governance.” It hasn’t stopped. It’s got worse. It’s got worse precisely because it’s a mode of governance accepted and blessed by the international “community” whose neoliberal politics of extraction means extermination of anything and anyone getting in its way. (...)

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West Papuan man filmed being bound and tortured in water-filled barrel allegedly by Indonesian soldiers

The Guardian

Footage allegedly filmed during February military raid in Puncak regency renews calls for international intervention in contested region. (...)

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