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Video Shows Indonesian Soldiers Torturing West Papuans

HeadlineOct 19, 2010

A graphic video has emerged that appears to show the torture of indigenous West Papuan men by the Indonesian military. The nearly five-minute-long video was posted to YouTube by the Asian Human Rights Commission on Saturday but was removed later that same day by the social networking site due to its shocking content. In one scene, the torturers hold to the throat of a Papuan man who is nearly naked on the ground. In another, a victim has his genitals burned with a heated bamboo stick. Indonesia seized West Papua in 1962, and although the territory was granted autonomy in 2001, human rights violations by the Indonesian military against West Papuans continue.

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