The Resort Police in Jayapura, Papua, has taken steps to ensure that 139 villages in the district remain secure, safe, and ready to hold general elections on .
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Indonesia has dismissed a call by UN human rights experts for independent investigations into reports of “shocking abuses” against indigenous Papuans, saying that the Southeast Asian nation has already tackled the accusations.
Separatists have waged a low-level campaign for independence in the resource-rich Papua Province for decades, saying that a 1969 vote overseen by the UN that brought the former Dutch colony under Indonesian control was illegitimate.
In a statement on Tuesday, three independent UN experts said that from April to November last year, they had received allegations that indicated several instances of extrajudicial killings, including young children; enforced disappearance; torture; and
Wiro Nongganop says he commands a battalion of West Papua independence fighters, but he has no guns, only bows and arrows, and lives in exile in a bark hut, sometimes surviving on potato leaves.