The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has made public a video it received showing the recent torture of Black Melanesian West Papuans by Indonesian soldiers in the Tingginambut area near Puncak Jaya in West Papua. The video shows soldiers kicking the head Papuans sitting on grass, slapping and threatening one with a knife to the face and throat, and stepping on the chest of a tied up naked man lying on the ground before burning his genitals with a burning stick while he screams.
West Papua has been under a genocidal Indonesian occupation since 1963, when the Dutch left. Over 100,000 or a fifth of the population has been killed by military action since then. Journalists, human right workers and academics are barred from traveling there. Although the area is rich in resources, the people there live in poverty under brutal repression where peaceful expression of opinion, rallies or raising pro-independence flags results in long prison sentences.
The torture video can be viewed here at this link.
Sources: AP, BBC, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
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