Human Rights Watch
The Human Rights Watch reported that the revelation
of the torture video, allegedly shot by the soldiers themselves "exposes the pattern of abusive behavior among
Indonesian soldiers and police in dealing with the natives in the remote
province Papua".
HRW said an electronic analysis shows that the 3gp video was taken at 1:30pm on May 30,
2010. It was originally uploaded anonymously on YouTube on Oct. 16, 2010.
Local NGOs indicated that the site on the video was near a
bridge on Gurage River in Tingginambut, Puncak Jaya regency. The two men are
villagers: Tunaliwor Kiwo and Telangga Gire.
HRW reported that Kiwo escaped
from the soldiers on June 2, and the soldiers released Gire after his mother
and his wife had pleaded for his life.
Kiwo's testimony (in Lani language) can be viewed here with English and Indonesian subtitles.
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Video Transcript of
the Torture: English Translation
from Bahasa Indonesia and Lani
By AMP
October 19, 2010
SOLDIER:
Show weapon, show me your weapon? You know there are weapons in Gurage, show me
the weapon!
KIWO: I do
not know, I’m just an ordinary civilian, please ...
SOLDIER: Hey
.. you shut up! I'll cut your throat, hey .. where are your people?
KIWO: I do
not know ...
SOLDIER: Hey
… don’t you say anything. Shut up!
KIWO: I do
not know ...
SOLDIER:
Where are the weapons? In Gurage where?
KIWO:
Gurage? Ti Pilia (Translator: Pilia man)
SOLDIER:
Just near here huh? In Tanabaga? Are there weapons in Tanabaga?
KIWO:
Tanabaga?
SOLDIER: We
go to Tanabaga now, where is it in Tanabaga?
KIWO: In
Tanabaga with Obet.
SOLDIER:
Obet who? Obet Tabuni? Where is his house, you know his house? Show me where
his house now?
KIWO: I do
not know ... I do not know his house
SOLDIER: Do
not lie, I will kill you! Burn the penis ... You have to show their weapons,
where are your friends? Show me your friends.
KIWO: Please
pity me
SOLDIER:
Your friends who carry weapons, where are they?
KIWO: Who?
SOLDIER:
Your friends in the jungle, show me one person who brought a weapon
KIWO:
Yamuneri (Translator: The name of a village)
SOLDIER: You
cheated ... burn huh ... burn ... take the fire ... burn him ... People said
you took the weapons.
SOLDIER:
Don’t you have a weapon?
GIRE:
Weapons are not here. Perhaps, in Yamoneri? Weapons are not here. (Translator:
The younger man, perhaps, initially spoke only in the native Lani language.
Here he spoke in Bahasa Indonesia)
SOLDIER: You
ever seen a weapon?
GIRE: No
SOLDIER: You
don’t know Bahasa Indonesia? You're deceptive.
GIRE: I do
not know Bahasa Indonesia because I didn’t go to school.
SOLDIER: If
you know the answer, let it out! Is it nice to be tortured like this? You must
know Bahasa Indonesia.
GIRE: I don’t
know. Here we stayed only with villagers, very few people.
SOLDIER: You
cheat, why lying? You know the weapon, it was in Tinggineri, you said dpn’t
know too?
GIRE:
Tingginambur no!
SOLDIER: You
cheat
KIWO: You
know the weapon? If you know quick tell them.
SOLDIER:
Where are the weapons? You know too? Quick.
KIWO:
Yogorinip ... (Translator: I do not know)
SOLDIER:
Weapons where? In honai then? In the church? In the woods? In the pig pen?
KIWO: Ei ei
(Translator: Ouch ouch)
SOLDIER:
Where is the place? Hey ...! Weapons where? ... Where did you put the weapon?
In the pig pen? Place where? Are you deaf? Place where? In honai? In the
church? In the woods? Sooner you will show the weapon!
KIWO: In the
pig pen?
SOLDIER: Hey
... really? You put in a pigsty? You put it there? Hey you talk honestly ...
honestly.
KIWO: I am
honest, I do not know.
SOLDIER:
Qucik, be honest ... you put it in a pigsty? Quick if you want to. You put in
the pig pen huh? You're cunning, you put the weapon in the pig pen?
KIWO: Where?
I don’t know.
SOLDIER: You
lied. Burn .... Burn him .... Burn him .... burn his penis.
KIWO: Ei
.... ei ei ... ... (screaming)
SOLDIER:
Burn ... Burn him .... Burn the penis.
KIWO: Ei
honest ... honest ... ei ... ei ... ei ... be honest (screaming)
SOLDIER: Quick
show me the gun … be honest?
KIWO: Honest
... please … please … honest ... I’m honest ... I’m honest (screaming).
SOLDIER:
We’ll take the weapon, you go to Jogorinip with us, we’ll take the weapon.
KIWO: Where?
SOLDIER: We
go to Yogorim, grab a weapon, I can grab a weapon, we take the same weapon ...
burn ... burn ... burn ... his penis.
KIWO: Ei ei
ae ... (screaming)
SOLDIER: You
quiet! I will shoot ... shoot ... you want me to shoot your mouth ... you're
honest now. You can grab a weapon, don’t you? Hey your penis, I burn again ...
Hey you don’t want peace? We do not want violence. I am going with you to the
new Yogorinim to grab a weapon. You put them in the church? In honai? In the woods? On the river? Inside
the land? We will take them. I love to know where!
KIWO: I live
in Tingginambur, I have a house in Tingginambur, I am here just look around … I
want to live (Screaming in agony, speaking in Lani language)
SOLDIER:
Burn!
KIWO: Ei ...
aye ... (screaming)
SOLDIER: Hey
... are you honest?
KIWO: Juju
yigirak tiarer o ... (Translator: I speak the truth, no please)
SOLDIER: If
you come from Tingginambut, where is the weapon? Who kept weapons in houses?
KIWO: Jujur
ti arer o .... Ei ... ye ... eyeee .. jujur (Translator: I speak honestly
that's all … please … please … speak honest)
SOLDIER: You
do not want to confess? Hey ... you want to go between them? Now where is the
weapon? Hey weapons now where?
KIWO:
Tinggineri
SOLDIER: Yes
Tinggineri where? At whose house?
KIWO: I do
not know
SOLDIER: Do
not know what? You said there were stored in a pigsty, would you be honest?
KIWO: Honai
... honai below ... I do not know o ... honai below an nenggolek me o
(Translator: I do not know)
SOLDIER:
Where is Weries? Weries!
KIWO: Weries
who?
SOLDIER:
You're just pretending ... Weries Telenggen
KIWO: Weries
died ... Brimob ...
SOLDIER:
He's dead, why? You want to die too? You want to deliver the message to Weries!
