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September 27, 2019

Indonesian Police Open Fire on West Papuan Protesters, Killing 32
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In West Papua, at least 32 people - many of them student demonstrators -
were killed earlier this week in a brutal crackdown on anti-racism
protests. Indonesian security forces reportedly opened fire on a group
of protesting students at a university in Jayapura, killing four; 28
more were killed in a separate uprising sparked by a teacher's racial
slurs. The teacher reportedly called a high school student a "monkey."
The violence follows last month's escalating demonstrations calling for
Papuan independence, which were also met by bloody repression from the
Indonesian Army. This is Edison Waromi, one of the leaders of West
Papua, speaking at the Democracy Now! studio here in New York on
Thursday.

Edison Waromi: "Today is a time, life in a slow-motion genocide. We will
die, continue every day, every moment."



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