It has been a tragic month for the West Papuan people with a large number of shooting incidents by unknown assailants occurring in the territory.
A military operation took place on Yapen Island with the security forces searching for peaceful political activists
Yapen: major military sweeps and abuses against ordinary villagers intensify
There was an attack on the village of Honai Lama, a sub district of Wamena in the Baliem Valley by the Indonesian security forces in which one person was reported killed and up to 17 wounded and a large number of houses set on fire.
The attack was conducted by the military following the stabbing of two of its members by the residents of Kampung Honai Lama after they had hit a 10 year old boy while they were riding a motorcycle at high speed
Human rights groups around the world have raised their concerns about the attack including Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA21/020/2012/en/1b64dac4-87d7-46c8-8950-f838afa35d87/asa210202012en.html
AWPA wrote to Foreign Minister Bob Carr twice concerning the incident and the detoriating human rights situation in West Papua.
http://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/cause-for-concern-military-sweeps-in.html
http://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/media-release-awpa-letter-to-bob-carr.html
• Ed: This is a superb professional overview of this tragedy to our north, featuring renowned human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson (Julian Assange):
The Economist: Tensions on the rise in West Papua The unseen resistance
