Rights activists in Indonesia’s restive, Christian-majority Papua province have hailed life-term imprisonment for an ex-soldier accused of killing four Papuans. The sentence is the toughest against a member of the security forces long accused of gross human rights violations in the conflict-torn region.
Catholic priest and rights campaigner Father John Djonga said the verdict “signals that there are efforts to take firm action against state apparatus who are perpetrators of crimes in Papua.”

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