The Minister of Foreign Affairs
Bundesaußenminister Westerwelle
Auswärtiges Amt
11013 Berlin
Germany
Open letter
Concerns Foreign policy Indonesia
Dear Mr. Westerwelle,
Recently, the world was witness to a video clip in which Papuan
Civilians were cruelly tortured by Indonesian security forces.
As an NGO, fPcN has been able to broadcast a brutal torture video
which was sent to us from Puncak Jaya, West Papua. The video shows two
men, one young and the other between 50-60 years, in the custody of
members of the Indonesian military, suffering increasing acts of
brutality and torture. A Papuan man from the video, in which he was
brutally burned, suffocated and hit by Indonesian troops, says he was
tortured for two days, according to the testimony recorded and
translated by Papuan activists.
The release of the horrifying video prompted a strong response in the
international press and broadcast stations around the world, such as
ABC, BBC, Channel4, Jakarta Post.
After the relaese of the video, our pages, fpcn-global.org &
naturvoelker.org , along with other human rights & tribal advocacy
websites, were targets of a massive cyber DDOS attack against West
Papuan sympathetic NGOs & charitable groups worldwide. The Asian Human
Rights Commission, West Papua Media Alert, Free West Papua Campaign UK
and Survival International, were also victims of the huge coordinated
cyber botnet attacks!
Up until now, "Human Rights" have been at the forefront of our
foreign policy.
Since the new government was established last year, with you as the
new
Minister of Foreign Affairs, we hope that we can take it for granted
that there
will be a continuation of that policy.
Considering the gravity of this systematic abuse of human rights, we
have
come to the conclusion that ?following the situation carefully? no
longer suffices and we would like to ask you to urge the Indonesian
authorities to independently investigate those events. We would also
like you to seek severe punishment for those responsible for the
torture of these mens.
We would very much appreciate it if you could inform us if, and in
what way,
you are willing to actively address this issue regarding the
Indonesian authorities.
With kind regards,
friends of Peoples close to Nature (fPcN), Germany