RIS ID
143086
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Abstract
Indonesia has recently indicated it is considering investigating the killings of hundreds of thousands of people in the 1965 "anti-communist" purge under authoritarian leader Suharto. If the inquiry goes ahead, it would mark a shift in the government's long-standing failure to address past atrocities. It is unclear if they will include other acts of brutality alleged to have been committed by the Indonesian regime in the troubled region of West Papua.
Publication Details
Webb-Gannon, C. B., Swift, J., Westaway, M. & Wright, N. (2020). Fight for freedom: new research to map violence in the forgotten conflict in West Papua. The Conversation, 15 May 1-8.