West Papua: Video Of Indonesian BRIMOB Police Beating Civilians And Detainess

West Papua: Video Of Indonesian BRIMOB Police Beating Civilians And Detainess   The incident depicted on this Video is of an unprovoked police attack on market traders and pro-independence demonstrators on August 6, 2011, who responded by throwing small stones at armoured vehicles. After a brutal sweep and dispersal, Indonesian BRIMOB paramiltary police were caught on film severely beating many civilians and detainees, and some were beating detainees so severely that provosts had to remove...

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