No Justice for Human Rights Victims?

A Makassar Human Rights Court is due to deliver its verdict over the Abepura case, next Thursday. But reports have surfaced that the court will not award compensation to the families of human rights victims.

September 6, 2005

AT 2am on December 7, 2000, police officers burst into the Ninmin Hostel in Abepura, home to dozens of Papuan students. Raga Kogoya, a university student from the economics faculty in the Otto Giessler College in Kotaraja, watched as police combed through the hostel, beating and kicking his university colleagues. One officer approached Kogoya himself. “You are from Wamena, you live like pigs and think like pigs,” said this officer, spit

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