Shocking photos of the brutal murder of a West Papuan by Indonesian police on 3 August 2009
Secretariat, West Papua National Authority:
Photo-report on the assassination of YAWAN WAYENI on Monday 3 August 2009
BAGUS EKUDANTO, Commander of Police in Papua Province ordered AKBP IMAN SETYAWAN (S.Ik) Head of Police of Yapen Regency
to ‘clean’ the West Papuan political movement in Yapen, including the old village of Mantembu in the valley of Mt Wayoi.
On Sunday 2 August the police kidnapped seven people from Mantembu and took them to Jayapura where they were
incarcerated without charge. On Monday 3 August at 6am, Police 1 SSK (a company of indeterminate number but up to 150
personnel) entered Mr Wayeni’s house and raped his wife in front of their second child who was sick. Mr Wayeni tried to
intervene and was shot with three rounds of ammunition from a SS1 automatic gun and then bayoneted. He ran out of the
house and died in the garden. The police threw his body in their car, like a dead animal, and took him to the hospital
to sew up his stomach. Yawan Wayeni was forty years old. He was a political prisoner in Yapen for nine years during the
Suharto administration. He leaves a wife and three children.
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1. Sdr. Yawan Wayeni sedang berusaha lari sambil menahan isi perut yang sudah keluar (Mr Yawan Wayeni running out
from his house after being shot and bayoneted by Indonesian police, cradling his disemboweled intestines, looking for a
place to hide in his garden).
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2. Sdr. Yawan Wayeni saat terjatuh sambil menahan isi perutnya yang keluar (Mr Wayeni falls in his garden, soaked in
blood, still holding his disemboweled intestines).
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3. Sdr. Yawan Wayeni terus bertahan dan berusaha lari (Mr Wayeni standing again trying hard to save his life).
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4. Sdr. Yawan Wayeni sudah tak mampu bertahan lagi, sehingga inilah saat2 terakhir ia mulai menghembuskan napas terakhir
(Mr Wayeni seconds before he dies in his garden).
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5. Saat terakhir sdr. Yawan Wayeni menghembuskan napas dalam keadaan duduk (Mr Wayeni at the moment of his death).
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6 & 7. Joint Police and TNI Search and Destroy operation in Mantembu Village on 11 June 2009. When they didn’t succeed in
finding FERDINAND WORABY, they took a twelve-year as hostage, then burned the activist’s house.
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Translation to English
Photo 1 Mr Yawan Wayeni running out from his house after being shot and bayoneted by Indonesian police, cradling his
disemboweled intestines, looking for a place to hide in his garden
Photo 2: Mr Wayeni falls in his garden, soaked in blood, still holding his disemboweled intestines
Photo 3: Mr Wayeni standing again trying hard to save his life
Photo 4: Mr Wayeni seconds before he dies in his garden
Photo 5: Mr Wayeni at the moment of his death
Photos 6 & 7: Joint Police and TNI Search and Destroy operation in Mantembu Village on 11 June 2009. When they didn’t succeed in
finding FERDINAND WORABY, they took a twelve-year as hostage, then burned the activist’s house.
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