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strong>May 13, Online

Australian academics and researchers have raised concerns, in a letter sent to Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr, about a recent fatal shooting in Sorong, Papua.

They said the shooting, perpetrated by the Indonesian security forces, of a group of Papuans marking the 50th anniversary of the transition of power in Papua from the United Nations to Indonesia highlighted continuous conflict in the region.

Your comments:

I traveled to Dili by road from Atambua. I took a rest at a local security post.

A policeman told me that the separatists might attack them all of a sudden.

But then when police respond to such an attack and a rebel is killed, the rebel becomes a 'victim'.

When a rebel kills a policeman, it's no big deal.

Harry