Bijlage 2 - Stichting Papua Erfgoed

Het bewind van Habibie bracht geen verbetering in de
situatie op Papoea. Gedurende de jaren 1998 tot 2000
werden er door buitenlandse waarnemers 80 gevallen geregistreerd
van standrechtelijke executies en vele honderden
van willekeurige arrestaties en martelingen. Ben
rapport van het Amerikaanse Department of State meldde
in 2001 over Papoea:
"Security forces were responsible for numerous instances
of, at times, indiscriminate, shooting of civilians, torture,
rape, beatings and other abuse, and arbitrary detention (...)
Security forces in Papua assaulted, tortured and killed
persons during search operations for members of militant
groups. (They) inconsistently enforced a no-tolerance policy
against flying the Papuan flag."
In haar conclusies schrijft het onderzoeksteam van de
rechtenfaculteit van Yale:
"Since 1969 (...) the West Papuan people have suffered
persistent and horrible abuses at the hands of the Indonesian
government. The Indonesian military and security forces
have engaged in widespread violence and extrajudicial
killings in West Papua. They have subjected Papua men
and women to acts of torture, disappearance, rape and sexual
violence, thus causing serious bodily and mental harm.
Systematic resource exploitation, the destruction of Papua
resources and crops, compulsory (and often uncompensated)
labor, transmigrationschemes, and forced relocation have
caused pervasive environmental harm to the region, undermined
traditional subsistence practices, and led to widespread
disease, malnutrition, and death among West Papuans.
(...) Although no single act or set of acts can be said to
have constituted genocide, per se, and although the required
intent cannot be as readily inferred as it was in the cases of
the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide, there can be little
doubt that the Indonesian government has engaged in a sys-
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