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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/462">Ash Pemberton</a></span></div><p>West Papuan independence leader Buchtar Tabuni has been put on trial as part of Indonesia's crackdown on the independence movement.</p>
<p>Tabuni, a leader of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), was arrested in June for allegedly organising “anarchic” protests calling on the government to properly investigate a wave of random shootings blamed on independence activists.</p>
<p>The protests were peaceful until attacked by police and ended with several activists dead and others injured.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51867" target="_blank">read more</a></p>