The Morning Stars New Tactics

The Free Papua Movement has transformed itself into the United Liberation Movement for West Papua. It is relying on political diplomacy.

July 26, 2016

Obby Kogoya walked shakily. Last Tuesday, the Papuan student went to the Yogyakarta Legal Aid office to complain to the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM). The commission team was investigating allegations of violence at a Papuan student housing complex in Yogyakarta the previous Friday. "I was beaten and tortured, Obby said.

He recounted how several people, whom he believed to be police officers, beat and kicked him while he ran back

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