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| Subject: Indonesia guilty over Papuan deaths Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:38 am | |
| CLAIMS by Papuan activists that Indonesian security personnel killed protesters gained credence yesterday after two bodies were found behind a military barracks a day after the bloody crackdown on an independence rally.
Witnesses said shots were fired, some activists were savagely beaten and more than 300 people arrested as military and police dispersed several thousand delegates to the Third Papuan People's Congress after they declared independence from Jakarta and elected a president and prime minister.
A Papuan police spokesman, Wachyono, confirmed yesterday two people had died. The bodies had been found about a kilometre from the oval in Abepura, where the congress was held.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/indonesia-blamed-for-papuan-deaths-20111020-1ma38.html#ixzz1bP5GmQJk
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