Published On:Thursday, October 1, 2015
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Pacific News Minute: Unrest in West Papua After Police Shooting
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Protests in West Papua this week, after Indonesian Police shot two 17
year old boys - one of whom died. This is the fifth time this year that
civilians have been fired on by soldiers or police in the restive
province, with now eight reported killed. We have more from Neal Conan
in the Pacific News Minute.
According to reports, Indonesian police pursued two seventeen year
old high school students near a market on Monday and opened fire. Kaleb
Bogau was hit in the chest and died on the scene. Efrando Sabarofek
was wounded in the chest and leg and was reported in critical condition.
As yet, there's been no public statement by police, but Kaleb Bogau's
family described the shooting as a political assassination and
reportedly refused an apology sent by text message from Paulus Waterpau,
the regional chief of police.
The dead boy's father, the
Reverend Obed Bogau, is active in a West Papuan independence group.
Reports say he asked police to investigate both this case and an
incident last month in the same area: Timika, when soldiers fired into a
group of ethnic Kamoros at a traditional celebration and killed two.
Shortly afterwards, an Indonesian Military Spokesman said the soldiers
had been attacked by a mob and fired in self-defense, but the Regional
commander, Brigadier General Supartidi, told the Jakarta Post that two
officers were drunk when they fired into the crowd and had been
arrested.
Last month, West Papuan activists appealed to the
Pacific Islands Forum to send a team into West Papua to investigate
human rights abuses. The Indonesian representative bluntly told the
Forum to "stay out of our business, and not to meddle in the internal
affairs of a sovereign state". There was no move to establish a fact
finding mission.
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