[ppi] [ppiindia] PAPUA: Report points to violence by Indonesian military

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PAPUA: Report points to violence by Indonesian military
By Interviewer: Samantha Hawley - Radio Australia Pacific Beat
Posted Friday, August 19, 2005

A damning report has accused the Indonesian military of committing systematic 
violence against the citizens of the Jakarta-controlled province of Papua. In 
the report, researchers from Sydney University cite eyewitness accounts of 
military involvement in acts of arson, theft, rape and torture, and the 
researchers call on the Australian Government to take action. The Centre for 
Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney released its report at 
Parliament House in Canberra today.

Presenter/Interviewer: Samantha Hawley

Speakers: Stewart Rees, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of 
Sydney

HAWLEY: Stuart Rees, the Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict studies 
at the Sydney University, says the report is a culmination of four years work. 
It makes harrowing reading.

REES: The forced displacement of people, the murder of people, the destruction 
of their homes and livelihood, the spread of AIDS, almost as a weapon of war 
given that it's clearly spread by sections of the military and it's clear too 
that there's hardly any primary health care available.

HAWLEY: How many villages have we seen being destroyed, I guess since this 
study?

REES: Well there's about. there's at least a dozen whose names are identified 
in that report.

HAWLEY: And how many deaths?

REES: About 100,000 people over the past 30 years. Now, the evidence in the 
report talks more specifically about thousands in the past couple of years.

HAWLEY: The report 'Genocide in West Papua', says the armed forces act as a law 
unto themselves in the Indonesian province, with no real accountability for the 
crimes against the Indigenous population. It says the survival of the Papuan 
population is at threat.

REES: I think there is a sense of hopelessness and that has made us publish 
this report and say enough is enough.

HAWLEY: The authors cite one instance where members of Kopassus, Indonesia's 
special forces command, allegedly burnt down 370 homes in one village.

In another in October last year, a primary school teacher was allegedly shot 
and killed by a member of the TNI - the Indonesian military - and in February 
this year the report says schools and houses were destroyed in three separate 
villages.

According to the Australian researchers who spent time in the province, there 
are thousands refugees living in the jungle, many of them starving. And with 
military operations in Papua accelerating since 2003, Stuart Rees thinks its 
fits the definition of genocide.

REES: We're saying that Australia is a signatory to the convention on genocide 
and that makes us have a legal obligation as well as a moral obligation, to 
tell a wide public what is going on.

HAWLEY: The report also describes an emerging illegal arms trade and 
religious-based terrorism recruitment in Papua and claims some groups have 
links to radical Islamic organisations.

Professor Rees says humanitarian, not military action, is needed.

REES: For example, a United Nations force, the recognition of peace monitors to 
say there are standards that have to be adhered to and we're going to examine 
them.

HAWLEY: The researchers say the Australian Government has a moral obligation to 
raise the report's findings at an international level.

Stuart Rees says that will take courage.


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