Video violence over Papuans who allegedly committed by Indonesian military circulating in cyberspace. Video titled "Indonesian military Torture and ill-treat indigenous Papuans" featuring a group of men dressed in camouflage, beremblem red and white, and bearing the SS-1 assault rifles were interrogating a number of civilians in Papua.
"Here I was conducting state business," cried one stripe group which appear in the video, while beating the head of the population with a combat helmet. While others kicking people repeatedly.
There is also the scene of a months-Papuans made monthly invisible group of people face. The victim was tortured by his vital parts burned wood that is burned.
Human Rights Organization, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) based in Hong Kong who spread these videos through video-sharing site, YouTube since October 17. Over the last three days the video was widespread, and provoke controversy.
AHRC claimed recordings taken in the region Tingginambut, West Papua was obtained from an undisclosed source. "This is just one of many cases of torture by the military in Papua are reported to us," explained Executive Director AHRC, Wong Kai Shing in a press release on the AHRC site dated October 17, 2010.
Regional Military Commander Major General Hotma 17 Paradise Marbun said it would soon form a team to investigate, whether the true perpetrator of violence is a TNI soldier. "If true members of the TNI who commit violence, will be followed up and processed in accordance with applicable law,''said Commander so when confirmed Wednesday, October 20.
Hotma asked not directly accuse the TNI. "It could have not done the military, this is going to try to be investigated."
The same thing also conveyed Kodam spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Susilo. He thought the video was created and deployed with the aim of discrediting the military. "If the picture in the video were true soldiers, why blow-ups? Meanwhile, sadistic violence and murder by armed civilian groups in Papua have never picked up. That is not job specific groups who always want to undermine the Unitary Republic of Indonesia,''he said.
However, whatever the outcome of the investigation later, Kodam will mengumukannya to the public. "We're not going to cover it up," said Lt. Col. Susilo.
Senior Researcher Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (Elsam), Amiruddin Al Rahab says, not only military investigation. Armed Forces Commander and Army Chief of Staff, he added, must make the verification team to go down to the area to check the case. "No need ngoceh, form a team, first check," he said when contacted VIVAnews Amiruddin, Wednesday, October 20, 2010.
In addition to teams from the TNI headquarters, Amiruddin proposed National Human Rights Commission should also take similar steps. Thus, there is a balance of information.
From Papua, a lawyer for the Alliance of Democracy Papua (ALDP) Latifah Anum Siregar admitted to not surprised by the appearance of the video. According to Latifah, the reality was often found in Papua, and even worse.
According to Latifah, the holder of the title of "Peacemaker" from the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, such violence could occur due to fundamental errors and apparatus owned by the government of Indonesia. There is always a presumption, the Papuan separatist movement or at least supporters of treason. In the language Latifah, development put the Papuans in the enemy position.
From the first villages in Papua were given the stigma - supporting, weapons or logistics provider, and so stop the separatists. As a result, "torture is not only experienced separatist group, but the village people. So it went for so long," says Latifah.
If recognizes Papua as part of the Unitary Republic of Indonesia, he continued, the government must perform humanitarian approach to understanding the local context and the characteristics of the Papuans, rather than to spread terror.
In line with the opinion of AHRC and Latifah, the National Commission on Human Rights called the video violence that is currently circulating only a small part of the building of violence in Papua.
Three weeks before the video scene, the National Commission has received reports of violence alleged in the Earth's Paradise. The report, among others, about the discovery of severed head separate from the body, the expulsion of the people who created waves of refugees, and torture the pastor Kindeman Gire and Pitinius Kagoya on March 17, 2010 name.
In fact, the whereabouts of clergy Kindeman Gire unknown. National Human Rights Commission Commissioner Yoseph Adi Prasetyo said his company also received reports of rotation in Nabire battalion headquarters to Puncak Jaya - who allegedly associated with this incident.
Yoseph also confirmed, that the alleged perpetrators of violence are military. The fact can be seen from the video in circulation. There are people who were interrogated about Goliath Tabuni - one of the activists of Free Papua Movement (OPM). "If for example, why the military is not asking for," he said.
In the near future the Commission will be to the Papuan police chief also met military commander. Big issues that will be confirmed is, is it true there are military operations there. "On the video, it will ask the last," said Yoseph. Indonesia Today
