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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West Papua rebels threaten to shoot New Zealand pilot if independence talks denied

The Guardian

Phillip Mehrtens, who has been held hostage since February, makes the claim in a new video released by the separatist group.

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New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens is being held by separatists in Indonesia’s Papua region. Photograph: West Papua Liberation Army/AP.

Rebels in Indonesia’s Papua region have threatened to shoot a New Zealand pilot being held hostage if countries do not comply with their demand to start independence talks within two months, a new video released by the group shows. (...)

A low-level but increasingly deadly battle for independence has been waged in resource-rich Papua ever since it was controversially brought under Indonesian control in a vote overseen by the United Nations in 1969. (...)

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