West Papua: Reports On Police Shootings In Paniai Gold Mining Area

West Papua: Reports On Police Shootings In Paniai Gold Mining Area   The recent shooting of five young Papuan men by Indonesian Police is characteristic of the out of control ‘State violence’ against indigenous people at Indonesia’s ‘development’ frontier in West Papua.   Indonesian illegal gold panning and an associated gold rush industries, which are backed by military forces and an expanded force of Para military police, puts local Paniai indigenous people in an escalating...

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