{"id":2148,"date":"2024-07-23T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T11:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2024-07-23T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T11:51:54","slug":"latest-puncak-jaya-massacre-reveals-west-papua-is-a-time-bomb-claims-benny-wenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"Latest Puncak Jaya massacre reveals West Papua \u2018is a time bomb\u2019, claims Benny Wenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/author\/pmc-editor\/\">APR editor<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-Puncak-Jaya-killings-ULMWP-680wide-.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-Puncak-Jaya-killings-ULMWP-680wide-.png\" alt=\"Three killings of Papuan civilians in Puncak Jaya\" style=\"width:662px;height:auto\" title=\"3 Puncak Jaya killings ULMWP 680wide\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Three killings of Papuan civilians in Puncak Jaya . . . military claims denied by local people. Image: ULMWP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/\"><em>Asia Pacific Report<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A brutal killing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benarnews.org\/indonesian\/berita\/puluhan-protes-penembakan-warga-papua-07172024084716.html\">three Papuan civilians<\/a> in Puncak Jaya reveals that occupied West Papua is a ticking time bomb under Indonesian President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulmwp.org\/ulmwp-president-benny-wenda-calls-for-international-arrest-warrant-on-prabowo-subianto\">Prabowo Subianto<\/a>, claims the leader of an advocacy group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Benny Wenda says the Melanesian region risks becoming \u201canother East Timor\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victims have been named as Tonda Wanimbo, 33; Dominus Enumbi, and Murib Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.id\/kabar-terbaru\/siaran-pers\/shooting-of-human-rights-defender-shows-increasing-threats-in-papua\/07\/2024\/\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> Shooting of human rights defender shows increasing threats in Papua<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Their killings were followed by riots in Puncak Jaya as angry indigenous residents protested in front of the local police station and set fire to police cars, said Wenda in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis incident is merely the most recent example of Indonesia\u2019s military and business strategy in West Papua,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndonesia deliberately creates escalations to justify deploying more troops, particularly in mineral-rich areas, causing our people to scatter and allowing international corporations to exploit the empty land \u2013 starting the cycle of bloodshed all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the ULMWP, 4500 Indonesian troops have recently been deployed to Paniai, one of the centres of West Papuan resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2022\/03\/indonesia-un-experts-sound-alarm-serious-papua-abuses-call-urgent-aid\">100,000 West Papuans<\/a> have been displaced since 2018, while recent figures show more than <a href=\"https:\/\/humanrightsmonitor.org\/reports\/hrm-annual-report-human-rights-and-conflict-in-west-papua-2023\/\">76,000 Papuans<\/a> remain internally displaced \u2014 \u201cliving as refugees in the bush\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Indonesia \u2018wants our land\u2019<\/strong><br>\u201cIndonesia wants our land and our resources, not our people,\u201d Wenda said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indonesian military claimed that the three men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benarnews.org\/indonesian\/berita\/puluhan-protes-penembakan-warga-papua-07172024084716.html\">were members<\/a> of the resistance movement TPNPB (West Papua National Liberation Army), but this has been denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Candra Kurniawan claimed one of the men had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benarnews.org\/english\/news\/indonesian\/three-killed-07172024155159.html\">sought by security forces for six years<\/a> for alleged shootings of civilians and security personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the same lie they told about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulmwp.org\/president-wenda-west-papua-is-effectively-under-martial-law\">Enius Tabuni<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bennywenda.org\/2023\/benny-wenda-new-massacres-in-west-papua-show-urgency-of-un-intervention\/\">five Papuan teenagers<\/a> murdered in Yahukimo in September 2023,\u201d Wenda said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe military line was quickly refuted by a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HalukEsther\/status\/1813917276200223187\">community leader<\/a> in Puncak Jaya, who clarified that the three men were all civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Concern over Warinussy<\/strong><br>Wenda said he was also \u201cprofoundly concerned\u201d over the shooting of lawyer and human rights defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.id\/kabar-terbaru\/siaran-pers\/shooting-of-human-rights-defender-shows-increasing-threats-in-papua\/07\/2024\/\">Christian Warinussy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warinussy has spent his career <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ccccjustice\/status\/1813947081297666455?s=48&amp;t=F4sWcRyWlNtKnfBOh7aeKw\">defending indigenous Papuans<\/a> who have expelled from their ancestral land to make way for oil palm plantations and industrial mines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlthough we don\u2019t know who shot him, his shooting acts as a clear warning to any Papuans who stand up for their customary land rights or investigates Indonesia\u2019s crimes,\u201d Wenda said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia\u2019s latest violence is taking place \u201cin the shadow of Prabowo Subianto\u201d, who is due to take office as President on October 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prabowo has been widely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/press-releases\/prabowo-subianto\/\">accused over human rights abuses<\/a> during his period in Timor-Leste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWill he form militias to crush the West Papua liberation movement, as he previously did in East Timor?\u201d asked Wenda<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>source : https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2024\/07\/20\/latest-puncak-jaya-massacre-reveals-west-papua-is-a-time-bomb-claims-benny-wenda\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By APR editor &#8211; Asia Pacific Report A brutal killing of three Papuan civilians in Puncak Jaya reveals that occupied West Papua is a ticking time bomb under Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto, claims the leader of an advocacy group. 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