Harrowing footage emerges of disemboweled teen attacked in Aug 21 militia rampage in FakFak

WARNING: THE FOOTAGE AND IMAGERY DISPLAYED IS GRAPHIC AND MAY DISTURB SOME READERS

September 5, 2019

by WestPapuaMedia staff

Disturbing footage has emerged from FakFak, showing a teenager’s disembowelment by pro-Indonesian militias during a violent rampage against independence supporters on August 21.

A still of the video showing the injuries received by Manarson Ndrotndrot , 15, from BMP militia, FakFak, Aug 21 (supplied)

The young man, Manarson Ndrotndrot, 15, was reportedly attacked by the Barisan Merah Putih (Red and White Force) militia, and Indonesian police and military officers stood by and failed to render medical assistance. According to confidential sources, after sustaining a stomach wound from a machete, Manarson was stood over by soldiers and militia men for several minutes whilst his intestines were falling out and he was in clear distress. This can be seen clearly in the footage.

In a harrowing echo of the Indonesian military organised violence 20 years ago this week in Timor Leste that led to its independence, Kostrad soldiers and Brimob paramilitary police stood by allowing – and even encouraging – militiamen to destroy Papuan property and attack Papuans they suspected as being pro-independence – or any Papuan not wearing the Indonesian national colours.

Footage of the disembowelment of West Papuan Youth (WARNING:GRAPHIC)

According to the sources in Fakfak, whom WestPapuaMedia is refusing to publicly identify for their safety, the militia rampage was an orchestrated retaliation by Indonesian security forces for the mass action earlier in the day which saw thousands of West Papuan people demand and end to racism from Indonesian occupation forces, and for an internationally supervised referendum. This mass action was dispersed with Tear Gas by Police, and resulted in the burning down of the Mbaham Matta Customary Council’s Office, in unclear circumstances (Some footage shows police firing highly incendiary tear gas rounds into the office).

Manarson sustained a disembowelment, and was eventually taken to the general hospital where he eventually underwent emergency surgery, according to a report from independent journalist Phaul Heger . The teenager currently remains in hospital in a critical condition recovering from his significant wounds.

The BMP militia, which is reportedly run by elements of the Indonesian special forces Kopassus, is mainly made up of transmigrant Indonesian colonists, but draws its indigenous Papuan members from the ranks of former police and military, unemployed and criminal gangsters. They have been regularly mobilised by Indonesian security forces to assist in the crackdown against indigenous West Papuans seeking self-determination, but since the beginning of the crackdown against the West Papua Uprising, BMP and other militia groups have been receiving significant tactical and logistical support from both Indonesian Brimob paramilitary police, and Kostrad Strategic Reserve.

The Fakfak Police Kapolda failed to respond to WPM enquiries if any charges have been laid against BMP members for the grievous harm.

(WestPapuaMedia)

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#WestPapuaUprising: We need your help to hold Indonesia to account, now.

September 5, 2019

As many people have noticed, WestPapuaMedia has not been publishing our original content for some time at this site (though we have continued to conduct fixing and production for many stories in the international media in this time). This is partly due to the forced shutdown of our crew after massive security costs and operations keeping our clandestine crew safe, thanks to the ethical recklessness by external non-Papuan reporters emptied our bank accounts and scared off funders.

It has been heartbreaking not being able to support the brave frontline and clandestine journalists and human rights defenders who daily face down Indonesian colonial thuggery to bring verified and credible independent reportage from behind the Bloody Batik curtain of the Indonesian occupation’s ban on international journalists, and its constant intimidation and harassment of indigenous Papuan Journalists.

However, the recent escalation in Papua resistance to severe daily repression – and since the “monkey” raids by the Australian-funded death squad, Detachment 88, on Papuan students in Indonesia – the #WestPapuaUprising is again forcing us to publish under our own steam. But to make this sustainable, we absolutely and critically need your help.

WestPapuaMedia is urgently seeking expressions of interest from international journalists, editors, translators, web designers, and media curators for assisting with the sustainable rebirth of the WestPapuaMedia platform. Please note – if you are operating inside West Papua, we will make contact with you securely – please do not respond here – send an encrypted email using a free protonmail account to our secure contact westpapuamedia_eds<@>protonmail.ch

We will be shortly starting a crowdfunding campaign to return us to full strength, so please watch this space.

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WestPapuaMedia site to go offline until our improved return: Archived on the Wayback Machine

WPM Editorial Statement
October 29, 2018
Hello readers:
As you know, West Papua Media has suspended publishing on our main site for a while now, due to a difficult ethical decision around the unsustainable safety costs for our clandestine journalists, that we faced without little support.
 
In the meantime, key personnel have been working on the Project FiveArm Secure Crisis Journalism Tool, and also working on key safety measures, and will be continuing this work for at least several months into the new year.
 
Whilst the Facebook group will continue. a decision has been taken not to renew our current web subscription for the site, whilst still protecting our domain registration and its variants. Our twitter account will also remain, but will not be a resource for real time monitoring until our re-establishment in 2019
 
Sadly, we do have to warn: Any organisation or individual that attempts to squat our identity will be severely dealt with. Please do not underestimate our desire to protect this ten year project’s legacy and platform that will return as a critical platform for West Papuan voices.
 
West Papua Media will be returning as a Witness Journalism and Human Security Monitoring initiate that will provide a robust global platform for independent and credible West Papuan voices to document their resistance and survival under Indonesian colonial occupation. It will become valuable a resource for both safe witness journalism skillsharing, and also for activist networks to utilise robust and provable high quality and factual evidence (of an international legal standard) from the field to assist in their campaigning, subject to correct attribution.
 
When we return, we will be upgrading to a much safer, inclusive anti-surveillance platform, that will also enable safer and much more robust engagement with witness human rights and environmental journalists and readers, and utilise protected, encrypted and anonymous submissions of evidence of human security abuses. This will be funded through a significant crowdfunding effort and philanthropic requests.
 
We will continue to be non-factional and non-partisan, inasmuch as we are embedded in the indigenous genuine self-determination aspirations of the West Papuan People, and the advocacy of Universal and basic Human Rights.
 
We will continue to have the most robust and ethical Source Protection Policy in journalism today, and introduce innovative Safe Witness Journalism technologies and training resources, including encryption resources and manuals.
 
WestPapuaMedia will also continue to work with indigenous media outlets and seek to renegotiate partnerships with clandestine and open journalists, outlets, sources and investigators who have met our Editorial Standards, using an exclusive blockchain source credibility scoring mechanism we have developed called ReputaChain. With reader support a fund for Assistance and training will be given to those who have yet to meet those standards and wish to be involved.
 
We would welcome anybody who wishes to help us achieve this mission. Please contact us at editor(at)westpapuamedia.info if you would like to assist with coding, archiving, sub-editing, and/or designing a crowdfunding campaign to help us achieve these goals. Our GPG key is at https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8378AD1127BEF02E
 
West Papua Media will aim to begin work to create this new presence in February 2019.
Obviously our archive will be unavailable, so you can search for any WestPapuaMedia stories on the Wayback Machine internet archive at https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://westpapuamedia.info/
We look forward to returning to our mission of Helping the Voiceless Roar, louder and stronger than ever.
 
Thanks,
 
WPM Crew
October 29, 2018
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JUBI: The turtle population in Kaimana, West Papua Province is almost extinct

Plastic waste threaten turtles ecosystem – IST Sorong, Jubi – The Pacific Aquatic Resources Research Center (P2SP2) of Papua University confirmed that the turtle population in Kaimana, West Papua province is almost extinct. It is said only seven species of turtles in the world and six of them are from Indonesia. Four from the six…

via The turtle population in Kaimana, West Papua Province is almost extinct — West Papua No.1 News Portal

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JUBI: After shooting incident, Freeport workers continue plan to strike

The protest action of PT. FI workers in front of Mimika Court on Thursday (April 20th) afternoon – IST Jakarta, Jubi – Two of the five victims of Thursday shooting incident in front of the Mimika Court, Mimika Regency, Papua April 20th 2017 who had been treated at Mimika General Hospital were allowed to go…

via After the shooting incident, Freeport workers continue the plan to strike — West Papua No.1 News Portal

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