News on the human rights and conflict situation in the Indo-Pacific region.
Human Rights Monitor (HRM) has compiled a list of victims of enforced disappearance and extra-judicial killings between January and December 2021. The chronology of events and witness testimonies allege members …
At least 17 victims killed and 5 forcefully disappeared in West Papua throughout 2021 Read More »
A court found Myanmar’s state counsellor, Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, guilty of illegal possession of walkie-talkies and breaching Covid-19 rules. The judges sentenced her to another four years imprisonment …
Myanmar’s civil leader sentenced to four more years imprisonment Read More »
Two members of the military are suspected of raping a woman in a hotel in Abepura, Jayapura, Papua Province. The spokesperson of the XVII/Cenderawasih military command, Kolonel Inf Aqsha Erlangga, declared on 31.12.2021 that the two suspects were arrested by the military police on 20.12.2021 and that the icase is being investigated. The complete chronology and motive for the rape case are not yet known and the identities of the two TNI personnel have not been disclosed.
On 23 December 2021, the chief of the Papua Regional Police in Indonesia, Mathius Fakhiri, gave a press conference in which he announced that armed contacts between Indonesian security forces …
