http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1307/S00117.htm Biak Massacre Citizens Tribunal Friday, 5 July 2013, 1:55 pm Press Release: Anne Noonan Biak Massacre Citizens Tribunal Venue John Woolley Building, Theatre N 395, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 6th July, 2013, 10.00am – 5.00pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time, UTC/GMT +10 hours) Fifteen years ago, on July 6th, 1998, Indonesian security forces surrounded unarmed protesters in West Papua at dawn and began firing into the crowd. Scores were killed. Many survivors of this initial assault were loaded onto boats, brought into open ocean, and dumped overboard to drown. This Saturday, July 6th, 2013, the West Papua Project at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Sydney University, is hosting a panel of distinguished scholars, judges and lawyers to hear direct evidence from survivors of this atrocity. The Biak Tribunal will use the system of Coronial Inquest, a formal inquiry into a death. On Tuesday, July 9th, the citizens tribunal will issue formal findings about the conduct of key perpetrators in the atrocity and recommendations for future action. [....]