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View all search resultsBad weather and difficult terrain are still preventing a joint rescue team from rescuing the crew of a Bell 212 helicopter that made an emergency landing in Paniai regency after it was reported missing several hours after taking off from Nabire Airport in Papua on Thursday.
The sluggish handling of past human rights violations has raised questions about the government’s commitment to resolve them, as the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) declared 2019 a “gloomy” year for the human rights agenda.
March 24 is the International Day for the Right to Truth and Dignity of Victims —a day to remember the truth about mass human rights violations- -- who were the victims, what were their root causes, how did the violations become so massive and how did we as a society deal with them.
Human rights groups and a number of Papuan activists have urged the Attorney General's Office (AGO), which has the authority to conduct investigations into alleged gross human rights violations, to probe the 2014 killings in Paniai regency of Papua.
Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) coordinator Yati Andriyani says Moeldoko has no authority to declare whether or not something constitutes a gross violations of human rights.
“We need to look at [the case] correctly. It must be seen properly because it was not a structured, systematic event. There were no direct orders from those in charge,” Moeldoko told journalists at the Presidential Staff Office in Central Jakarta on Monday.
Indonesia's military shot dead four students in the country's restive Papua region during 2014 protests and carried out "gross human rights violations", a commission investigating the uprising concluded Monday.
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