One survivor said:
“The attack on July 6th took place in the morning, when we were under the water tower. During the initial attack the troops assembled around us in a U formation. There were Brimob police in riot gear, army troops(Kopasgad), a company of soldiers from the local Kodim barracks, as well as Navy personnel. They formed a letter U around us and then shot at us repeatedly while we were still under the water tower. They kept shooting, telling us to head down to the dock. We were herded down to the dock. So at around 6:30, I was led by two Indonesian military officers directly to a Naval Ship. The ship has a number on its side, 534.” Eyewitness testimony to Eben Kirksey in 2003.
Killings at the Water Tower
The Water Tower
Hand Drawn Map from a Survivor
This hand-drawn map comes from a 73 page report, “Names Without Graves, Graves Without Names,” by Elsham Papua. The report is entirely in Indonesian as are the captions here. Key features of the map are the Laut (Sea) and the Pelabuhan Biak (Biak Harbor) towards the top, and the Puskesmas (Health Clinic) and Menara Air (Water Tower) where the protestors were camped out in the middle and Lapangan Terbang TNI (The Military Air Base) at the bottom. The symbols listed on the right hand side are used to illustrate the position of the Indonesian forces at the time of the attack: “oo” represents the position of a platoon of Navy Marines (Marinir TNI AL), “**” shows a company of Mobile Brigade Police (Brimob), “xx” illustrates Air Force Special Forces (Pashas TNI AU), and “///” represents one company of military troops (TNI AD).
9 comments
Kurt S. Spehr says:
Jul 26, 2013
I believe after hearing the testimony of the eye-witnesses and the other testimony that the Indonesian military response was planned by the Security Minister of Indonesia who is today, Indonesia’s President Yudhoyono! The presence of two naval units prepared with sand to absorb the blood of the murdered victims was commanded from the top of the Indonesian Government and this officially makes Yudhoyono complicit with the Genocide and makes it a deliberate violation of International Laws against the use of tortures, psychological harm to civilians, ethnic cleansing by any world government! This Barbarism should move the High Commissioner of the U.N. to immediately place West Papua back on the decolonization List at the U.N. because it is obvious to me a paralegal that Indonesia never had nor never will grant equal civil or even “Human Civil Rights” to the Melanesian Race of West New Guinea or the Country of West Papua!
fukyu says:
Dec 17, 2013
Y’ALL SMELL LIKE BULLSHIT!
john says:
Nov 2, 2014
Yeah Kurt. I reckon Yudo still got blood on his hands from Timor. That muslim arse wipe was there amongst it when the Balibo boys went down. We know where some of his maggot indo mates are here in Australia. Only a matter of time before evidence is conclusive.
Kurt Spehr says:
Mar 20, 2015
John in Australia…the N.Y. Times accused Yudhoyono of being involved in the murder ambush of two U.S. teachers on the Freeport McMoran Road in West New Guinea! I heard that Australia intercepted electronic communications supporting that the ambush was planned at the highest level of the Indonesian Government when Yudhoyono was the Security Minister! Was it his plan to frame the OPM as “terrorists,” in order to lift the U.S. Congressional Leahy Act Ban against any more U.S. weapon sales to Indonesia! That was obviously his motive for wasting 2 innocent U.S. citizens living and teaching near the Freeport McMoran Mine. He delayed the F.B.I. Investigation for 3 months! Lots of time to cover up the ambush scene and exterminate any witnesses to the crime!
Silvio Bari says:
Sep 11, 2015
TNI general SBY definitely should be investigated for his possible connection with dirty military operations in East Timor in 1999 and perhaps earlier, in Jakarta in May 1998, in Biak in July 1998, in Maluu in 1999-2001, and in Aceh in 2002-2004. He may also have information on Theys Eluay’s assassination in 2001, on Munir’s assassination in 2004 and in the suspicious deaths of other prominent political figures that bear the hallmarks of arsenic poisoning.
Gustaaf Tompoh says:
Aug 13, 2016
Nu SBY, Wiranto, Prabowo e.a. nog in leven zijn is voor mij de actuele en strategische vraag of zij voor de internationaal tribunaal bijvoorbeeld ISS in Den Haag berecht zouden moeten worden.
ma hamid says:
Sep 4, 2020
75 years of racist hate crimes, ethnic cleansing and Genocide supported by Australia and the UKGOV; the racist policies since 1949 carried out by the Malay Mongoloids against all other races in Indonesia is a humanitarian crisis that is being ignored by the UN; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y2NTIvEN-k&bpctr=1599167610
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