President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s decision to award Eurico Guterres, a former pro-Indonesia militia leader who was acquitted for human rights abuse, has been met with intense criticism, with rights groups highlighting the gesture as the government’s lack of commitment to upholding human rights.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s decision to award Eurico Guterres, a former pro-Indonesia militia leader who was acquitted for human rights abuse, has been met with intense criticism, with rights groups highlighting the gesture as the government’s lack of commitment to upholding human rights.
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According to him, the video showed members of the so-called KLA who stand on the bodies of dead soldiers in Košare and dig the tombs in which they are buried. Odalović told RTS that Košare may be one of the first locations in the area of Kosovo and Metohija for which it is suspected that the graves of the missing are located, and which will be searched. Odalovic stated that he was in Pristina last weekend and talked to the Pristina delegation for missing persons. He added that there are five more locations that are a priority and that Belgrade insists on, that the evidence has been submitted and that it is insisted that searches be carried out in May and mid-June.
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Indonesian police arrested a pro-independence activist in Papua on suspicion of treason and sedition in connection with anti-Jakarta demonstrations that turned into deadly riots in the region two years ago, authorities said Monday.
The arrest of Victor Yeimo, chairman of the National Committee for West Papua (KNPB), a Papuan civilian organization that seeks a referendum on self-determination for Papua, occurred over the weekend amid escalating tensions in the far-eastern region.
Indonesia’s president has ordered a crackdown on Papuan armed separatist rebels after they assassinated the government’s intelligence chief for the region in late April.
Yeimo was picked up on Sunday in the provincial capital, Jayapura, after being a fugitive for nearly two years, said M. Iqbal Alqudusy, a police spokesman for a counter-insurgency task force known as Operation Nemangkawi.