Indonesian police abuses endemic in Papua: rights group
AFP, July, 2007
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JAKARTA (AFP) — Indonesian police routinely torture, rape and kill with impunity in Indonesia's easternmost Papua where they risk fanning separatism, an international rights group said in a report released Thursday.
Human Rights Watch warned that endemic police abuse in the isolated Central Highlands region was deepening mistrust of Jakarta and called on the government to open the region to independent observers.
A long-running but low-level separatist movement has simmered in the region since the 1960s, and the Indonesian government does not permit journalists or rights workers to travel there without special permission.
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The HRW report found that Indonesia's feared paramilitary Brimob were responsible for the most serious violations in the region today, though some reports of brutal treatment by Indonesian soldiers persisted.
Indonesia's military has for decades been accused by Papuans of committing human rights abuses in the isolated, resource-rich region, but the police have ...
