EFFORTPOST Torture of Yawan Wayeni, a native Papuan man and activist. He spent last minutes of his life talking to Indonesian soldiers, with abdomen cut open by a bayonet and guts hanging out (2009) Video (with subtitles!) - the first minute is slideshow and intro with tl;dr, then 5 mins of video, then slideshow again - and BACKSTORY

The video you've seen shows a murder of Yawan Wayeni of Matembu village (Serui, Papua) by members of the Indonesian paramilitary police (BRIMOB). It took place on the 3rd of August 2009.

Wayeni was an escaped political prisoner who had been accused of burning police vehicles and buildings. At the time of his arrest, local NGO sources claim Wayeni was unarmed and not politically active. These same sources maintain that during interrogation into the whereabouts of local pro-independence guerillas (OPM/TPN), BRIMOB officers sliced Wayeni's abdomen open with a bayonet, causing his death. BRIMOB maintains that Wayeni's injuries came while he was resisting arrest with a homemade firearm. The following photos and video of the incident were taken by BRIMOB officers and leaked by unknown sources.

It surfaced in March 2010, but news spread over the next few months. Edward Aritonang, a spokesman for the Indonesian National Police, confirmed that they knew about the video's existence but said nothing else.

Wayeni, a former tribal leader turned farmer, was jailed years ago for an alleged role in an attack on a police station. He escaped in 2007 and was placed on a wanted list.

On Aug. 3, 2009, police moved in on the fugitive at his farm on Serua island. Police say Wayeni drew a homemade firearm. Activists contend that he was unarmed.

The video, filmed by an officer with a cellphone camera, shows Wayeni dying in his own garden, challenging his captors after being bayoneted in the stomach.

Location of Yapen Island, where the video was recorded:

Wayeni eventually received medical care, but died soon, police said. Photos from the incident surfaced quickly. The activists were unable to pinpoint their circumstances, though. The video was posted anonymously in March 2010, and Papuan investigators confirmed the details of Wayeni's death.

The five photos accompanying the video in a higher quality:

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.

Even if it doesn't seem important to you, it was very important for the activists back then. Western Papua became an Indonesian province in 1961. Very tl;dr: islands being a part of modern Indonesia became a Dutch colony in 1898. In 1949, Indonesia became an independent nation state, but Papua did not join. The rest:

The Dutch government recognised that West Papua was geographically, ethnically and culturally very different to Indonesia and so the Dutch government began preparing West Papua for its own independence throughout the 1950s. At the end of 1961, West Papua held a Congress at which its people declared independence, and raised their new flag – the Morning Star.

But within months the dream was dead. The Indonesian government wanted all of the former Dutch colonies in the Asia-Pacific region and the Indonesian military soon invaded West Papua.

And this conflict / occupation is still going on. I don't know when it was first written on the internet about the Indonesian crimes, but I assume it was in the late 1990s, just like with the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (and the cultural genocide there). Additional problems are that - according to the activists, not the government - NGOs workers and journalists are likely to be deported or not allowed in the province if they clearly show interest in the human rights abuse. Back when the video was released, the safest option was to enter West Papua on a tourist visa.

Here is a clean version (no slideshow added and no subtitles), converted from .flv, length: 5;20

⠀SOURCES

https://blakandblack.com/2011/03/28/australian-federal-police-complicity-in-the-torture-and-killing-of-mr-yawan-wayeni source of the video with subtitles, copies on the other websites didn't work and were not archived

https://papuanarchive.org/map/reports/view/3

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-aug-01-la-fg-indonesia-papua-20100801-story.html

https://www.freewestpapua.org/info/history-of-west-papua quote on the history

https://www.humanrights.asia/opinions/AHRC-ETC-024-2012 Here is an interview from 2012 about the conditions under which human rights activists were operating. Death of Yawan Wayeni is mention, among the names of other deceased activists.