Irian Jaya: Was Jakarta involved in West Papuan leader’s murder?*

Human rights investigations into the death of West Papuan nationalist, Theys Eluay, now show that the last known whereabouts of Eluay’s driver, Ari Masoka, was at the headquarters of Kopassus, the Indonesian army special forces.A flamboyant spokesman for the Papuan Presidium, Theys Eluay was in the process of organising a Papuan plebiscite throughout the province on December 1, when he was assassinated on Saturday, November 10. Such a vote would have had only symbolic value, of course, but on …

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