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PRESIDENT WENDA: A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY HAS BEEN COMMITTED IN WEST PAPUA

March 21, 2024 in Statement

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I am truly horrified by the video that has emerged from of Indonesian soldiers
torturing a West Papuan man. More than anything, the sadistic brutality on
display shows how urgently West Papua needs a UN Human Rights visit.

In the video, a group of soldiers kick, punch, and slash the young Papuan man,
who has been tied and forced to stand upright in a drum full of freezing water.
As the soldiers repeatedly pummel the man, they can be heard saying ‘my turn! My
turn!’ and comparing his meat to animal flesh. Watching the video, I was
reminded of the horror of my childhood, when I was forced to watch my uncle
being tortured by Suharto’s thugs. The Indonesian government have committed
these crimes for sixty years now. Indonesia must have their MSG Membership
suspended immediately – they cannot be allowed to treat Melanesians in this way.

This incident comes during an intensified period of militarisation in the
Highlands. After an alleged TPNPB fighter was killed last month in Yahukimo, two
Papuan children were tortured by Indonesian soldiers, who then took humiliating
‘trophy’ photos with their limp bodies. Such brutality, already common in West
Papua, will only becoming more widespread under the genocidal war criminal
Prabowo. 

According to the Rome Statute, torture is a crime against humanity. Indonesia
has not signed this treaty, against torture, genocide, and war crimes, because
it is guilty of all three in West Papua and East Timor.  

Though it is extreme and shocking, this video merely exposes how Indonesia
behaves every day in my country. Torture is such a widespread military practice
that it has been described as a “mode of governance” in West Papua. I ask
everyone who watches the video to remember that West Papua is a closed society,
cut off from the world by a sixty-year media ban imposed by Indonesia’s military
occupation. How many victims go unnoticed by the world? How many incidents are
not captured on film? Every week we hear word of another murder, massacre, or
tortured civilian. Over 500,000 West Papuans have been killed under Indonesian
colonial rule.  

There is an urgent need for states to take more serious action on human rights
in West Papua. We are grateful that more than one hundred countries have called
for a visit by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. But Indonesia clearly
has no intention of honouring their promise, so more must be done. International
agreements such as the EU-Indonesia trade deal should be made conditional on a
UN visit. States should call out Indonesia at the highest levels of the UN.
Parliamentarians should sign the Brussels Declaration. 

Until there is serious sanction against Indonesia their occupying forces will
continue to behave with impunity in West Papua.  

Benny Wenda
President
ULMWP 

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