Most of you know that The Human Lens is part of the Free West Papua campaign and from time to time, we bring forward issues related to the on-going conflict. As decades of conflict have passed in West Papua, Indonesia where its civilians, soldiers and resistance group members are paying the costs of their right to self-determination against what they deem as Indonesian colonization.
The ongoing human rights abuses against the Papuans demand that both Indonesia and Papuan people find intelligent measures towards ending this cycle of violence and find solutions to benefit both indigenous Papuans and Indonesia. The Neglected Genocide’ is a report detailing a series of human rights abuses that took place in the Central Highlands of Papua, during the military operations in 1977-1978. In this publication, the AHRC reports that at least 4,146 Papuans, including children, women, and the elderly were killed.
The research found that the methods of killing…
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