‘Military to blame for killings’


Thousands of residents rally in Deiyai, Papua on Monday to demand the perpetrator of the recent fatal shooting is brought to account. They also want contractor firm PT Putra Dewa Paniai and the police’s Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel to be expelled from the Mee Pago indigenous area. Yulianus Pigai, 28, was found dead with several gunshot wounds to his body when Brimob personnel tried to disperse an angry crowd that had destroyed the construction camp of the firm in Tigi district, Deiyai regency, on Aug. 1., 2017. (Courtesy of/Abeth Amoye You) - The Jakarta Post/ANN

Indonesia’s military shot dead four students in the restive Papua region during 2014 protests and carried out “gross human rights violations”, a commission investigating the uprising concluded.

Komnas HAM yesterday issued its findings five years after the high-school students were gunned down in Paniai, a central area of insurgency-wracked Papua province, which shares a border with independent Papua New Guinea.

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