Police kill 17 in #WestPapua says rights group
A human rights group says at least 17 people died last week after police using helicopters fired on houses in the Indonesian province of West Papua.
Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat reports more than 20,000 people are said to now be homeless after security forces torched the dwellings in the Paniai regency.
#WestPapua #INDONESIA: protester dies at Freeport
Leader of #WestPapua independence movement put on Interpol list #Indonesia
In the photo: Benny Wenda, who is 36 and living in Oxford, leads a movement for the independence of West PapuaIndonesian police have cracked down severely on indigenous protesters, who claim large corporations have destroyed the local environment and impose oppressive work conditions.
