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   West Papuan Genocide   
      
    This is a listing of some reported Human Rights Violations in   
   West Papua. These incidents and others like them formed the   
   basis for the determination of West Papua being the scene of an   
   on-going program of genocide being conducted against the native   
   Papuan populations by the Indonesian government or its agents.   
   The legal definition and grounds for this determination are   
   documented in "Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua:   
   Application of Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian   
   Control", a paper prepared for the Indonesian Human Rights   
   Network by the Allard K Lowenstein International Human Rights   
   Clinic, Yale Law School. Unlike the newspaper usage of the term   
   for instances such as mass murder, the legal definition being   
   used also requires the creation of a larger environment and   
   suppression of legal and other human rights processes, which   
   this study determines is the case in West Papua.   
      
   == Human Rights Abuses since 1962 in West Papua ==   
      
    These reports are from external documents listed at the bootom   
   of this page, or from external documents indicated on the   
   individual listing.   
      
   1966: Rev. Koibut stripped naked and forced to simulate   
   masturbation in front of his family   
      
   1966-67: Aerial bombing of Arfak Mountain homelands   
      
   Jan-Mar 1967: Aerial bombing of Ayamaru and Teminabuan homelands   
      
   1967: Mr Permenas Frits Awom, laid down his arms during amnesty,   
   put on boat for 6hr trip from Manokwari to Biak, boat returned   
   2 hours later without Permenas.   
      
   1967: Operasi Tumpas (operation obliteration). 1,500 killed in   
   Ayamaru, Teminabuan and Inanuatan villages.   
      
   1967-1968: Mr Godfried Mirino, member of New Guinea Council   
   taken from his home by unknown persons, never seen since   
      
   Apr 1969: Aerial bombing of Wissel Lake District (Paniai and   
   Enarotali area); 14,000 survivors escape into the jungle.   
      
   May 1969: Mr Penehas Torey, member of New Guinea Council taken   
   by military from his home in Jayapura was never seen again.   
   Moses Werror (now in exile) was last person to have seen him.   
      
   May 1970: Massacre of many women and children by Indonesian   
   troops. Eighty witnesses reported seeing one woman gutted, her   
   unborn baby removed & dissected on ground, the baby's aunt was   
   then pack-raped.   
      
   Jun 1971: Mr Henk de Mari reported that 55 men from two villages   
   in North Biak were forced to dig their own graves before being   
   shot. Published in Dutch daily De Telegraaf Oct 1974.   
      
   Unknown: 500 Papuan corpses found in jungle Lereh District,   
   south west of Sentani Airport, Jayapura region.   
      
   1974: In North Biak, 45 Papuans killed, names and ages known.   
      
   1975: In Biak, at least 41 people from Arwam and Rumbin villages   
   were killed.   
      
   1977: Aerial bombing of Akimuga (Freeport McMoRan Inc. mine   
   area).   
      
   1977-78: Rev. Father Tettoroo (Dutch catholic) forced by ABRI to   
   eat human penis and cut off an OPM fighter shot dead in Paniai   
   Wissel Lake District   
      
   1977-78: Aerial bombing of Baliem Valley.   
      
   Mar 1978: Four women from Piramid village as sex slaves for one   
   month before dry battery acid stuffed into vaginas and returned   
   to village. Performed by ABRI Unit 752, 753 and Police under   
   command of Colonel Albert Dieng.   
      
   Apr 1978: Six unidentifiable bodies were discovered in the Dosai   
   district of Jayapura.   
      
   May 1978: Five OPM (Organisasi Papua Merdeka) leaders surrender   
   to save the village they were caught in. They are beaten to   
   death with red hot iron bars and their bodies thrown into a pit   
   latrine. The 125 villagers were then machine gunned as   
   suspected OPM sympathizers.   
      
   Jun 1978: 14 corpses found shot, West of Sentani Airport,   
   Jayapura region.   
      
   Jun 1978: 6 women pack-raped, shot, and then had their vaginas   
   stuffed with sweet potato leaves and red berries after death   
   following suspicion of collaboration with OPM. Babuma Village,   
   Kelila District, Jayawijaya.   
      
   Jul 1978: 122 people (116 mean, six women) fled into jungle with   
   ABRI (Indonesian "red beret" military) in pursuit. The   
   villagers were captured, had their hands and feet bound, were   
   weighted and bagged, then dumped at sea. Merauke area.   
      
   Sep 1979: Mr Izack Samuel Fatahan, Musician and businessman who   
   had attempted asylum in PNG to join his family, went hunting   
   with a Captain Coreles, Mr Fatahan never returned.   
      
   Unknown: North Biak, 12 people shot after receiving permission   
   to leave camp to collect sago for a village feast.   
      
   1981: 10 killed, 58 disappear without trace. Paniai Region.   
   Jun-Aug 1981: Operasi Sapuh bersih (Operation Clean Sweep),   
   populations of Ampas-Waris and Batte-Arso villages bayoneted   
   and left.   
      
   Sep-Dec 1981: estimated 13,000 killed in the central highlands.   
   Jul 1984: Naval, air, and ground troop assult of Nagasawa/Ormo   
   Kecil village, 200 dead.   
      
   Unknown: Naval shelling of Taronta, Takar, and Masi-Masi coastal   
   villages; suvivors fled towards Jayapura; under Dutch in 1950   
   each village had 1500 to 2000 population.   
      
   mid 1985: 2,500 killed in Paniai area of Wissel Lake district,   
   including 115 from Iwandoga and Kugapa villages massacred by   
   troops 24/6/1985; 10 people, the village, food gardens, and   
   livestock of Epomani village, Obano Sub-district; 15 people,   
   village, and livestock of Ikopo village Monemane district; and   
   517 people, 12 villages, food gardens, and live-stock of   
   Monemane.   
      
   1986-87: 34 known persons shot, Paniai/Wissel Lake District.   
   Dec 1994: Christmas day, civilian Mr Nogogamakme Mem (31) shot   
   in the back while hiding near church, he feared the soldiers   
   guarding the entrance   
      
   Dec 1994: civilian Mr Wendi Tabuni (23) stabbed in abdomen and   
   shot in head; body dumped in river gorge on the Tembagapura.   
   Jul 1998: Troops shoot 150 sleeping under West Papuan flag for   
   four hours before hauling other residents from homes for   
   torture and rape before dumping bodies at sea by naval   
   gunships. Initial reports,Later details   
      
   2000 Prison, Torture and Murder in Jayapura for illegal   
   journalism   
   http://www.nzz.ch/dossiers/2001/westpapua/2000.12.22-engl-article72F07.html   
      
   Nov 2001: Papua Praesidium Council Chairman, Chief Theys Eluay   
   is kidnapped and murdered. New reports   
      
   Oct 2002: tour guide abducted by Kopassus (Indonesian Special   
   Forces) at Sentani (Jayapura's airport), kept in small room at   
   Kopassus HQ and fed only salt water for 14 days while tortured.   
   With deep, barely healed bayonet scars cross his back where he   
   was sliced, he says his interrogators accused him of having   
   links with the Free Papua Movement, OPM. That as they were   
   doing this, they said, "You cannot get independence. During   
   2003, 2004 we will kill all Papuan leaders for independence."   
   From Sydney Newspaper Mar 2003   
      
   Mar 2003: Thom Beanal successor to Theys Eluay, says, "We are   
   getting used to the intimidation now. We get SMS (phone   
   messages) all the time saying that we will be killed."Newspaper   
      
   May 2003: up to 10 highland villages were burned and at least 20   
   people were killed by Jemaah Islamiah or Laskar Jihad groups.   
   News, talk.   
      
      
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