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October 23, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) claims more than a dozen civilians have been killed in the Papuan highlands, including three men who were allegedly tortured and a woman who was allegedly raped. However, the Indonesian government claims the accusations “baseless”. ULMWP president Benny Wenda said 15 ... <a title="ULMWP alleges 15 civilians killed in West Papua military operation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/23/ulmwp-alleges-15-civilians-killed-in-west-papua-military-operation/" aria-label="Read more about ULMWP alleges 15 civilians killed in West Papua military operation">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Indonesian military forces have again bombed Kiwirok, the site of a massacre in 2021 that killed more than 300 West Papuan civilians, amid worsening violence, alleges a Papuan advocacy group. “While President Prabowo talks about promoting peace in the Middle East, his military is trying to wipe out West Papua,” said United ... <a title="Wenda accuses Indonesian troops of bombarding village in Star mountains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/wenda-accuses-indonesian-troops-of-bombarding-village-in-star-mountains/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda accuses Indonesian troops of bombarding village in Star mountains">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2025
Pacific Media Watch A West Papuan advocacy group is calling for an urgent international inquiry into allegations that Indonesian security forces have used the chemical weapon white phosphorus against West Papuans for a second time. The allegations were made in the new documentary, Frontier War, by Paradise Broadcasting. In the film, West Papuan civilians give ... <a title="Wenda calls for international inquiry into film claim that Indonesia is using chemical weapons in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/31/wenda-calls-for-international-inquiry-into-film-claim-that-indonesia-is-using-chemical-weapons-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda calls for international inquiry into film claim that Indonesia is using chemical weapons in West Papua">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2023
The Paradise Bombed documentary about West Papua by Kristo Langker. Asia Pacific Report A new documentary and human rights report have documented savage attacks in 2021 by Indonesian security forces on a remote West Papuan village close to the Papua New Guinea border as part of an ongoing crackdown against growing calls for independence. The ... <a title="New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/05/new-documentary-human-rights-report-allege-indonesian-atrocities-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Papua human rights activist and lawyer Veronica Koman has called for an independent inquiry into the attack on health workers in the Kiwirok district, Star Highlands, Papua, saying there are two versions of how the tragedy happened. A healthcare worker, 22-year-old Gabriella Maelani, was killed during the attack by the West ... <a title="Lawyer Koman calls for inquiry into tragic death of health worker in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/27/lawyer-koman-calls-for-inquiry-into-tragic-death-of-health-worker-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Lawyer Koman calls for inquiry into tragic death of health worker in Papua">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has blamed the Indonesian military over the attack at a hospital in Kiwirok, near the Papua New Guinean border, in which a nurse was killed. Interim president Benny Wenda of the ULMWP has issued a statement in response to accusations by the Indonesian authorities ... <a title="Wenda blames nurse’s death on Indonesian military crackdown for Papuan mining, palm oil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/wenda-blames-nurses-death-on-indonesian-military-crackdown-for-papuan-mining-palm-oil/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda blames nurse’s death on Indonesian military crackdown for Papuan mining, palm oil">Read more</a>
