{"id":37074,"date":"2021-09-20T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T07:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/20\/inquiry-needed-into-australias-silence-on-west-papuan-massacre-human-rights-groups-say"},"modified":"2021-09-20T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T07:26:11","slug":"inquiry-needed-into-australias-silence-on-west-papuan-massacre-human-rights-groups-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37074","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry needed into Australia\u2019s silence on West Papuan massacre, human rights groups say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revelations that Australia knew about atrocities by Indonesian military but did nothing are \u2018deeply disturbing\u2019, Human Rights Watch says<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups say revelations that Australia sat on its hands after learning of Indonesian military atrocities against West Papuan demonstrators are \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d and should prompt an independent investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/sep\/19\/killed-like-animals-documents-reveal-how-australia-turned-a-blind-eye-to-a-west-papuan-massacre\">newly released unredacted intelligence report<\/a>, shared with the Guardian, shows the Australian government had compelling evidence that the Indonesian military fired live rounds indiscriminately into a group of unarmed West Papuan demonstrators on the island of Biak on 6 July 1998.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/20\/inquiry-needed-into-australias-silence-on-west-papuan-massacre-human-rights-groups-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revelations that Australia knew about atrocities by Indonesian military but did nothing are \u2018deeply disturbing\u2019, Human Rights Watch says\u2022 Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingHuman rights groups say revelations that Australia sat on its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,645,1585,53,156,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-human-rights","category-indonesia","category-west-papua"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37075,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37074\/revisions\/37075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}