JAKARTA — Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights said Sunday it was investigating the killings of 12 civilians, including women and children, in a military operation in the restive easternmost Papua region.
The commission, abbreviated as Komnas HAM, said at least 12 civilians died of gunshot wounds in “an enforcement operation” by the armed forces against the TPNPB-OPM rebel group in the central Papuan village of Kembru on Tuesday.
Several other people were wounded.