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The Biak Massacre Citizens Tribunal

The Biak Massacre Citizens Tribunal

On July 6th, 1998, shortly after the anniversary of the West Papuan declaration of independence, a Massacre took place in the city of Biak, West Papua. To this day, none of those involved in the mass-murder have been ...

Human Rights Watch: Rape, torture plague Myanmar’s Kachin conflict

Human Rights Watch: Rape, torture plague Myanmar’s Kachin conflict

Source: The Sun Daily BANGKOK (March 20, 2012): Troops in Myanmar have murdered, tortured and raped civilians since fighting with separatists flared up around nine months ago in northern Kachin State, leading to the ...

Rwanda, Unsafe to Speak Out
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Rwanda, Unsafe to Speak Out

If there’s one person in the world that Kagame fears today, it is Victoire Ingabire - the Rwandan Aung San Suu Kyi ...

HRW: Obama should address West Papua abuses
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HRW: Obama should address West Papua abuses

Human rights organisations want US President Barack Obama to address abuses in Papua during his visit to Indonesia. ...

Kyrgyzstan: Lessons for the Arab Spring?

Kyrgyzstan: Lessons for the Arab Spring?

It has been one year since bloody ethnic clashes in the Kyrgyz city of Osh shattered the optimism that followed the revolution deposing authoritarian dictator Kurmanbek Bakiyev...longstanding tensions between Kyrgyz ...

Georgia: President Saakashvili Violently Breaks Up Protests

Georgia: President Saakashvili Violently Breaks Up Protests

Human Rights Watch called the use of force by Georgia’s riot police “excessive” and “disproportionate.” ...

Burma: Prisoner Amnesty Fail

Burma: Prisoner Amnesty Fail

Last week's prisoner amnesty in Burma was the latest in a series of superficial changes that have done nothing to move the country away from authoritarian military rule. Branded a ‘sick joke’ by Human Ri ...

US State Department’s Annual Human Rights Report for Indonesia Regarding West Papua

US State Department’s Annual Human Rights Report for Indonesia Regarding West Papua

The Indonesian government's malfeasance in this regard has been the basis of growing charges that the Indonesian government's policies towards the Papuans in particular, amounts to genocide. ...