Paniai - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 19 Mar 2015 07:43:48 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Paniai - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Papua church leaders want inquiry into deaths https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/03/19/papua-church-leaders-want-inquiry-intodeaths/ Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:04:11 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=69285

A joint forum of Papuan church leaders and the Indonesian Communion of Churches [PGI] have urged Indonesia's President Joko Widodo to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate alleged rights abuses in the Paniai shooting in Papua province. Five protestors were killed and at least 17 injured in the December incident in which security forces allegedly Read more

Papua church leaders want inquiry into deaths... Read more]]> A joint forum of Papuan church leaders and the Indonesian Communion of Churches [PGI] have urged Indonesia's President Joko Widodo to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate alleged rights abuses in the Paniai shooting in Papua province.

Five protestors were killed and at least 17 injured in the December incident in which security forces allegedly opened fire on 800 protestors.

Church leaders united under the Oikoumene partnership forum in Papua say it would be best for President Jokowi to establish an inquiry so the Paniai case can be resolved completely.

Police have reportedly been investigating the killings with the Papua Human Rights Regional Commission secretariat. However the head of the Papua Baptist Church Rev Socratez Yoman says it lacked details.

"In the report, there is a sense that the police want to protect their officers. It seems that the police want to break the incident into separate cases that are not related to each other so that it will be difficult for us to find the perpetrators of the shooting," said Socratez.

Responding to the statement, Papua Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Rudolf Patrige said all elements of society should support and communicate with each other to find a resolution to the Paniai incident.

"The main obstacle investigators are facing during investigation is that people still have not come forward to provide statements on what they heard and saw or experienced," he said.

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Papua church leaders want inquiry into deaths]]> 69285 Nun says arrival of Troops in Paniai caused panic https://cathnews.co.nz/2011/08/30/nun-says-arrival-of-troops-in-paniai-caused-panic/ Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:30:37 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=10154

The arrival of Troops in Paniai, by air and land, has caused panic, said a nun who works there. She did not want her name to be made public. A group of armed men launched attacks in the Papua regency of Paniai as Indonesia celebrated its 66th Independence Day. As the hoisting of the flag ceremony Read more

Nun says arrival of Troops in Paniai caused panic... Read more]]> The arrival of Troops in Paniai, by air and land, has caused panic, said a nun who works there. She did not want her name to be made public.

A group of armed men launched attacks in the Papua regency of Paniai as Indonesia celebrated its 66th Independence Day. As the hoisting of the flag ceremony was carried out at Paniai Regency Office, Maddi District, a series of gunshots were heard, causing people who attended the event to get nervous

Paniai Regent, Naftali Yogi said the OPM members "had planned to disrupt the Independence Day as a few days earlier there was information that there would be an interruption during the flag flying ceremony."

The sound of gunshots has been heard since about 2 a.m. on Wednesday morning in Pagepota and Uwibutu villages in Paniai. There have been no reports of casualties.

"The sound of gunshots ceased for a moment, then was heard again between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m.," Markus You, a local resident, said on Wednesday.

A church official said that some of those who had fled after the shooting had not returned home and their present whereabouts were not known. ‘We think that some of them have fled to far-away kampungs and don't want to return to the town which is full of heavily armed troops whose presence is very frightening,' the official said. They would only come back when the town had been cleared of the troops. The church official said they were refusing to come back because they knew that the fighting had been a put-up job and they didn't want to become casualties.

Paniai Regency is one of the regencies (kabupaten) in Papua province, Indonesia.

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