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Indonesian Soldiers in Videotaped Torture Sentenced to Less than Year

HeadlineJan 26, 2011

Three Indonesian soldiers who were videotaped torturing two indigenous West Papuan men have been sentenced to between eight to 10 months in prison. In one scene, the torturers hold a knife to the throat of a Papuan man who is nearly naked on the ground. In another, a victim has his genitals burned with a heated bamboo stick. According to one of the victims, the incident was followed by three more days of torture in which the soldiers wrapped his legs in barbed wire, put cigarettes out on his face, and repeatedly beat him. Indonesia seized West Papua in 1962, and although the territory was granted autonomy in 2001, human rights violations by the Indonesian military against West Papuans continue. Human rights groups have criticized the sentence as being too lenient.

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