Jonathan Pearlman; 21/11/09
As dawn was breaking across the Indonesian province of West Papua last July, an Australian mine worker, Drew Grant, set out with friends along the winding road near the Freeport mine for a weekend of golf. The driver and fellow mine worker, Lukan Biggs, would later recall that he heard a sharp pop and thought the car had skidded off a stone. Then the back seat passenger screamed: Grant, 29, had been shot by a bullet that pierced the roof. Just back in West Papua after visiting his wife and baby in Melbourne, Grant was probably killed instantly. In the aftermath, six villagers from the nearby town of Timika were rounded up by police and held without trial for four months. The men insist they are innocent and that they confessed after being beaten with rifle butts and threatened with shootings and electric shocks.
See: http://www.theage.com.au/world/death-in-papua-tale-of-scapegoats-and-politics-20091120-iqwn.html
Tags: Human Rights, Indonesia, Trade, West Papua