Tag: Extrajudicial killings
Rights group says security forces unlawfully killed 72 Papuans in past...
RNZ Pacific
A West Papua rights group claims Indonesian police and soldiers have carried out at least 72 extrajudicial killings over the past year.
The report...
Suspicious ‘Papuan’ tweets promoted Indonesian government’s agenda
ANALYSIS: By David Engel, Albert Zhang and Jake Wallis
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has analysed thousands of suspicious tweets posted in 2021 relating...
Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya
Sixty years ago today -- on 15 August 1962 -- the fate of a newly born nation-state West Papua was stolen...
Killing as policy: Duterte’s bloody drug war that Marcos will inherit
By Jodesz Gavilan in Manila
A birth of a child usually draws out changes from people. Parents, and even grandparents, recreate themselves in a bid...
Making sense of the scary Philippines election – 10 seconds into...
COMMENTARY: By Keeara Ofren
Many of you will know that I am Filipina. The past few days have been quite a journey following the Philippine...
Australian group calls for action over UN Indonesian ‘Papuan abuses’ report
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A West Papuan advocacy group in Australia has appealed to Foreign Minister Marise Payne to take the cue from a new...
UN report calls for independent probe into ‘shocking’ rights abuses in...
UN News
Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans have been taking place in Indonesia, say United Nations-appointed human rights experts who cite child killings, disappearances, torture...
PNG woman tortured and killed in horrifying video over ‘sorcery’
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A Papua New Guinean woman accused of killing a two-year-old boy through sorcery was assaulted, tortured and killed after...
‘Stop fighting or be tossed out of Moresby,’ warns Parkop
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has warned Papua New Guinean ethnic groups to stop fighting and killing each...
Teen killed as Indonesian police tell Papuans: ‘You’re legitimate target! Shoot!’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A 17-year-old youth has become the latest victim of Indonesia’s six-decades-long colonisation of West Papua, alleges the United Liberation Movement of...
West Papua needs urgent Red Cross intervention over crisis, says Wenda
Asia Pacific Report
The Indonesian state is causing a renewed humanitarian crisis in West Papua. Three young West Papuan men have been murdered by the...
Gunmen shoot dead Philippines radio journalist outside his home
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A radio journalist has been shot dead outside his home by two gunmen on a motorcycle, Philippines police said - four...
Independent investigators blame TNI for killing of Papuan pastor
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Papua Province Humanitarian Team for Cases of Violence Against Religious Figures in Intan Jaya Regency, Haris Azhar, has announced the...
Military accused of shooting dead a Papuan pastor – call for...
By Yanuarius Weya in Jayapura
A pastor has been shot dead at the weekend allegedly by the Indonesian military, sparking protests by church groups and...
Rappler publisher Maria Ressa raps Duterte for ‘security’ violations
Pacific Media Watch
Rappler publisher and chief editor Maria Ressa was critical today of the Philippines administration under President Rodrigo Duterte for its focus on...
Philippines faces call for UN rights inquiry into war-on-drugs killings
Amnesty International is calling Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown on drugs a "systematic campaign of killing". It wants the United Nations to investigate what...
Philippines ‘drug war’ no model for any country, says UN rights...
UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet criticising the Philippines "war on drugs" policy in her speech in Geneva. Video: Rappler
By Jodesz Gavilan in...
Killings, arrests as military ‘flush out’ Mindanao environmental defenders
By KEN E. CAGULA in Davao City
The massive human rights violations committed against indigenous peoples or Lumads and peasants are designed to silence the...
Trauma research on TV journalists covering killings revealed in Pacific Journalism...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately.
Revelations in...
Palu quake and tsunami sweeps away key Indonesian human rights activism
ANALYSIS: By Dr Vannessa Hearman
When the earthquake and tsunami hit the city of Palu, Central Sulawesi, last weekend, they not only brought wreckage and...
‘My only sin is extrajudicial killings,’ admits President Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to admit to extrajudicial killings during a speech on Thursday saying this was the only "sin" that he was guilty...
Amnesty demands Jokowi honour pledge on Papuan human rights
By Budiarti Utami Putri in Jakarta
Human rights organisation Amnesty International Indonesia has demanded President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo fulfil his promises to resolve the alleged...