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Indonesia to protest ‘ill-intentioned, click-bait’ UN Papua report
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Residents of Tembagapura district in Mimika regency, Papua, wait to be evacuated by Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Police personnel on March 8, 2020. Thousands of residents in the area have been displaced from their homes as a result of armed conflict between security forces and separatist groups. (Antara/Sevianto Pakiding)
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he government has said it will file a complaint against what it has called an “unprofessional, ill-intentioned and one-sided” report by three United Nations human rights experts on its handling of conflicts in Papua.
Earlier this month, the experts issued a joint statement that called for urgent humanitarian access to Papua and West Papua and for the government to conduct independent investigations into alleged abuses against indigenous communities there.
The statement was published on the website of the UN’s human rights body on March 1 and was signed by the special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Francisco Cali Tzay; the special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz; and the special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary.
In the statement, the special rapporteurs expressed concerns about a deteriorating human rights situation in Papua and West Papua, citing abuses against indigenous Papuans that included child killings, enforced disappearances, torture and the mass displacement of people.
"Between April and November 2021, we received allegations indicating several instances of extrajudicial killings, including of young children, enforced disappearance, torture and inhuman treatment and the forced displacement of at least 5,000 indigenous Papuans by security forces," they wrote.
They estimated that between 60,000 and 100,000 people had been displaced since an escalation of violence in Papua and West Papua began in December 2018.
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