WEST PAPUA URGENT NEWS
Names of the victims:
Panuel Tablo, male,18 years old, from Bintang Mountains. Catholic
Yesa Mirin, male 18 years old from Senani, Protestant
The third victim has not yet been identified.
Chronology
On 29 May at around 11.30 am, a 55-year man with a
German passport was found covered in blood after being shot by an
unknown person (OTK) at Pantai Base-G. His wife, Eva Medina, 55 years
old, saw the perpetrator who she said, was a man with sideburns and
curly hair.
On the following day, 30 May, the KNPB announced that
it would hold a demonstration in response to all the shooting incidents
that have recently occurred in Papua.
The following is a statement by the KNPB spokesman, Viktor Yeimo.
According
to plan, the KNPB held a demonstration to press for investigations into
a number of shooting incidents that have occurred in Papua recently.
The KNPB held a demo on 4 June. A large crowd of people wanted to go to
Abepura but were prevented from doing so by heavily armed Indonesian
security forces.
The demonstrators decided to return to Sentani.
While on the way, there were skirmishes with the security forces who
attacked the demonstrators in Kampung Harapan. This is where the
shooting and maltreatment as well as kidnappings began, perpetrated by
members of the Indonesian security forces, the TNI and the police. The
demonstrators dispersed and fled into the forest, hiding in the tall
grass for protection.
As a result of the violence perpetrated by
the security forces, three demonstrators were killed and ten were
arrested. All those arrested were subjected to torture. We cannot report
about any other people.
According to a report by the TNI -
Indonesian army - leaked to us by a pro-Merdeka soldier, the troops
said that they had killed twenty demonstrators on 4 June.
Please Note:
We
intend to cross check this information and update this report with new
information, based also on investigations made at the location of the
incident and in the hospital in Yowari, Papua.
The persons we
found in the hospital were Ericson Suhun and Aksina Balingga along with
their colleagues..In a cell phone message we were told that they had
been tortured and had sustained serious maltreatment. They were then
detained by the security forces in Bayangkara Hosital, without legal
counsel.
Statement by an independent human rights activist:
There
is a humanitarian crisis in Papua, along with a serious human rights
crisis. We call for international intervention into the situation in
Papua, in accordance with UN mechanisms. Without this, we Papuans will
be annihilated because the Indonesians are constantly killing us,
anywhere and everywhere.
We hope that this information about the
shooting of demonstrators on 4 June by the security forces will be used
for an urgent appeals release programme, internationally, and that it
will be drawn to the attention of the international community.
Please accept our thanks for your attention and support in the defence of human rights in West Papua.
Jayapora, 4 June 2012
Sebby Sambom.
Pro-independence Human Rights Activist in West Papua