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Fed: Indonesia's Papua a time bomb, activist warns
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AAP General News (Australia)
11-07-2004
Fed: Indonesia's Papua a time bomb, activist warns
By Nick Lenaghan
MELBOURNE, Nov 7 AAP - The restive Indonesian province of Papua was a ticking time
bomb that could drag Australia into its wreckage, a prominent Papuan human rights campaigner
has warned.
John Rumbiak, international advocacy coordinator for the human rights group Elsham,
said increasing militarisation, coupled with human rights abuses and unmet demands for
independence had turned Indonesia's easternmost province into a "time bomb waiting to
go off".
"There's a whole series of ...
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