We have received more urgent reports from Wamena, West
Papua about a continuing Indonesian military operation which has left houses
and churches burned down with livestock killed.
This is forcing hundreds of West Papuans to flee into
the jungle as refugees, with little food or housing.
Local sources have reported that many fully armed Indonesian
soldiers, police and special forces with sniffer dogs have arrived at the
Wamena airport and are likely to depart to the Lanny Jaya Regency where a
brutal Indonesian military operation is ongoing.
West Papuans in the Wamena area are very worried that the
soldiers intend to kidnap and kill activists like they did to Papuan leader
Martinus Yohame last month.
With foreign journalists still banned from reporting
in West Papua by the Indonesian government, the Indonesian armed forces are
operating with total impunity, burning houses and killing Papuan villagers as
they please.
We desperately need journalist access in West Papua so
that the outside world will know what is happening to our people.
Please send this draft letter to your elected
representative, urging them to call upon the government to pressure Indonesia
to let foreign journalists into West Papua.
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