Wed, 06/20/2007 - Urgent Telephone Action + TNI Numbers in Central Highlands - Monday, 18 June 2007
Closed Meeting of upper echelons of TNI & Police took place at Ifar Gunung Sentani 11/6/2007.
Does Indonesia want War in West Papua?
For many years General Tadius Magay Yogy lead his guerrilla members to fight Indonesia’s rule form the jungle of West Papua. But when Soeharto's regime collapsed, he decided to declare that his region, Paniai, is a zone of peace. He decided that the Independence of West Papua should be achieved by peaceful means.
NEWS JUST IN: 15,000 village people have been herded into the mountains by army - machine-guns from helicopters - and now are starving. Their gardens destroyed, animals killed and sold by the army who deny access to these internal refugees - even the church people are not alowwed through the cordon they army has created.
Behind a recent, highly controversial indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Bush administration is maneuvering to revive military ties with the Indonesian Army (TNI), one of the world's most oppressive institutions. In late June, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft convinced a federal grand jury to indict Anthonuis Wamang for a 2002 ambush in West Papua that killed two Americans, an Indonesian, and wounded 12 others.
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