First contact was made with some Kiriwok villages in 2000 but modernity in the form of Chinese drones, Serbian mortars, French rockets came just twenty-one years later to annihilate them. The Indonesian military attacks on Kiwirok, some twelve kilometres from occupied West Papua’s border with independent Papua New Guinea (PNG), in dense rainforest and high mountains, are terrible enough to make anyone who doesn’t have a heart of stone cry when watching this film. But, even worse is knowing that they’re just a small piece in a pattern of atrocities carried out by Indonesia with total impunity because they’re covered up and assisted by its allies in respectable democracies. More
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