Tales of Deaths from Sydney
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Survivors of 'Bloody Biak' testified at a citizens tribunal in Australia. Dozens of Papuans were killed in the 1998 protest and subsequent crackdown by security forces. Strong indications of gross rights violations were never followed up.
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A scream from the direction of the beach caught the attention of villagers who were repairing a church fence. "There are bodies here. There are bodies!" cried out a male voice, breaking the Sunday morning silence. It was July 17, 1998, in Munsaure village, Biak Numfor regency, Papua.
The villagers ran toward the source of the shouts. When they reached the shoreline, they saw three dead bodies. The corpses had been tied together. "One of the bodies h
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