Article 4RBWC 'I feel like I'm dying': West Papua witnesses recount horror of police shootings

'I feel like I'm dying': West Papua witnesses recount horror of police shootings

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Kate Lamb in Jakarta, Marni Cordell and Ben Dohert
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Number of dead may be higher than official death toll and unrest in Wamena may have claimed as many as 41 lives

Witnesses to Monday's deadly riots in West Papua claim Indonesian police gunned down Papuan students in the street during the unrest, and say Wamena has since become a militarised ghost town.

Witness testimony from Wamena, the largest town in Papua's remote Baliem Valley, run in stark contrast to the Indonesian authorities' official account.

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