Death in the afternoon

Article Abstract:

A gambling dispute erupted into the third bloody massacre in two months in East Timor, this one starting in the marketplace on a Sunday afternoon, continuing through neighborhoods and ending two days later with an death toll estimated at 30. A human rights representative said the militia wants people to fear voting against autonomy at the ballot, but a spokesperson for the militia's political wing, blamed the violence on provocation by pro-independence supporters.

Massacres, Paramilitary groups, East Timor, Government, Resistance to, Government resistance

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Death in Papua

Article Abstract:

A pro-independence leader in Indonesia's Papua province (formerly Irian Jaya) may have been killed by Indonesia's military, according to Rex Rumakiek, another independence leader in Sydney, Australia. The dead man's car had gone off a cliff, but the body showed signs of strangulation. Indonesia annexed the former Dutch colony in 1969, after occupying it in 1963, and there has been armed conflict over the status of the region ever since.

Public affairs, Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Civil Rights, National liberation movements, Assassination, Irian Jaya, Indonesia

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Jihad in Papua

Article Abstract:

The violence between the Islamic extremists of Laskar Jihad and the Indonesian military is discussed. The violence committed against Johannes Bonay is discussed in further detail.

Legal issues & crime, International politics, Papua New Guinea, Crimes against, Military policy, Political violence, Islamic militants, Bonay, Johannes

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