The Indonesian military has detained eight of its own after disturbing videos surfaced of a group beating and slashing a young Papuan as he stood trembling in a drum of bloodied water.
One of the men is wearing a T-shirt printed with the number “300”, an apparent reference to his battalion. The footage, seen by this masthead, is too distressing to publish.“The commander does not tolerate any legal violation of whatever kind,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Candra Kurniawan, a spokesman for XVII/Cendrawasih command, which covers four Papua provinces.
“Though it is extreme and shocking, this video merely exposes how Indonesia behaves every day in my country,” exiled West Papua pro-independence leader Benny Wenda said.“There is an urgent need for states to take more serious action on human rights in West Papua.”
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