Indonesia: Papuan Militants Kill 17

Expand Cartoonist's depiction of Indonesian government restrictions on media freedom and rights monitoring in Papua. © 2015 Toni Malakian for Human Rights Watch (Jakarta) – Indonesian police should investigate a Papuan armed group’s killing of at least 17 people, including a soldier, at a construction area in Nduga in Papua’s densely forested Central Highlands on December 2, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. The circumstances of the killings remain unclear. Papuan militants should cease unlawful killings, and the Indonesian government should ensure that its security forces act in accordance…

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