Tag: Massacres
Bryan Kramer: PNG ‘merciless’ payback killings have changed everything
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Kramer in Port Moresby
Yesterday, I returned from Tari Electorate in Hela Province following a one day trip to assess the situation...
Women who died in PNG’s Karida massacre were community ‘anchors’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide in Karida, Papua New Guinea
On Wednesday, some of the bodies of 18 women and children in Papua New Guinea...
Karida massacre victims buried as other PNG villagers flee in fear
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The bodies of the Karida village massacre victims in Papua New Guinea's Hela province have been buried as fearful villagers in...
Outrage over killing of pregnant women, children among 22 dead in...
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS World News
VIDEO WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Papua New Guinea has responded with outrage over the killings of at least 22 people,...
After the NZ massacre, survivors and activists tell different story
The Al Jazeera 101 East investigative report ... was the Christchurch mosque killer a "true lone wolf?"
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Quiet, picturesque New Zealand was...
Amnesty Indonesia calls for justice over 1998 Trisakti student shootings
By Devina Halim in Jakarta
Amnesty International Indonesia is calling for justice and truth from the government over the Trisakti student shooting tragedy through legal...
RSF open letter plea to Suu Kyi for Myanmar journalists’ freedom
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Five days after Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to seven years in prison on a trumped-up...
Films about 1965 anti-communist stigma dominate Indonesian festival
The trailer for Eka Saputri's film Melawan Arus. Video: Komunitas Kedung
By Joko Santoso in Purbalingga
A short film by a student whose family were victims...
Philippines under Duterte – acute impunity and fettered information
ANALYSIS: By Malou Mangahas in Manila
Eight years ago on 23 November 2009, 32 journalists were among the 58 who were killed in what is...
Febriana Firdaus wins inaugural Pogau award for courage in journalism
Jakarta has a new award for courage in journalism, honouring West Papuan editor Oktovianus Pogau who died last year. The inaugural award has been...
Indonesian victims petition against Suharto’s ‘hero’ status
Victims of human rights violence from Indonesia’s New Order era, visited the Social Affairs Ministry (Kemensos) to hand over petitions which, opposed the nomination...
AUT vice-chancellor gives ‘profoundly shocking’ message in wake of Orlando massacre
Vice-chancellor Derek McCormack of Auckland University of Technology has described the weekend massacre in Orlando, Florida, as "profoundly shocking" and he has extended the...
Survivors of Indonesia’s 1965 purge desperately seek end to stigma
After more than half a century without clarity on the identity of perpetrators or those who orchestrated the event, some survivors and victims of...
High school teacher brings alternative narratives on 1965 Indonesian purge
By Elly Burhaini Faizal in Jakarta
A high school Indonesian history teacher in Batam, Riau Islands, has brought alternative narratives of the 1965 to 1966...
Protests mount over massacre of Filipino farmers in climate demo
WARNING: Shocking images. Citizen video footage of the Philippines security forces in their increasingly savage use of force against the protesting farmers. Video: Kilab...
West Papua testimony: ‘After the massacres, the injustices continue’
From Popular Resistance
By Jason MacLeod
This testimony was written in collaboration with Mama Tineke and Daniel Rayer, two West Papuan activists who survived the 1998...
