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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Marni Cordell

‘The kids had all been tortured’: Indonesian military accused of targeting children in West Papua

A photo illustration of a soldier, seated people and a flag
UN human rights experts have called for urgent and unrestricted humanitarian access to West Papua, where the Indonesian military is accused of targeting children. Illustration: Composite/Victoria Hart/Guardian Design

The body of 17-year-old Wity Unue was brought back by the Indonesian military in a box, witnesses say. When soldiers couldn’t find his family, they burned the cardboard coffin, with his body inside, in a clearing at the end of a road in the remote highlands of West Papua.

The high school student – a promising musician and songwriter – had been tortured and burned to death.

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