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TAPOL's 40th anniversary TAPOL is being marked by the launch of Say Sorry for '65, a campaign calling on President Yudhoyono to acknowledge the truth about the 1965 mass killings. The campaign launches at the UK opening-night screening of the multi award-winning film about 1965, The Act of Killing.
Two human rights lawyers from West Papua, Olga Hamadi and Gustaf Kawer, are honoured at a ceremony for the Lawyers for Lawyers Award in Amsterdam. "These two lawyers show great and onoing courage...in a situation largely ignored by the outside world," said the expert jury which placed them third on the shortlist for the Award.
Following the killings, arbitrary arrests and excessive use of force against peaceful protestors in Papua between 30 April and 13 May, TAPOL and 10 other international organisations appealed to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Mr Frank La Rue, to take action and urgently raise the issue with the government of Indonesia.
Opinion piece by prominent Papuan church leader, analsying why exactly the Indonesian government will not release permits for foreign journalists to visit West Papua.
The Indonesian government today came under fire for its policy on political prisoners in West Papua. The publication of a new TAPOL report forcefully challenges the government’s claim that there are no political prisoners in Indonesia.
Disturbing documentary-drama, The Act of Killing, is to hit UK screens this summer. The film shows local gangsters in Medan, Sumatra re-enacting in vivid and sometimes surreal and sickening detail the killing of alleged communists during the horrific events that followed former President Suharto’s rise to power in Indonesia in 1965.