The 2022 Timika killings or the Timika massacre, was the killing of four Papuans near the city of Timika, by members of the Indonesian Army in August 2022. ^[1]

Killings

On 22 August 2022, Indonesian soldiers arrested Iwaka villagers: Irian Nirigi, Arnold Lokbere, Atis Tini and Kelemanus Nirigi, for attempting to buy weapons from them in Timika. They shot them dead, dismembered their bodies and stuffed them in sacks which they then threw in the Pigapu river. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

On August 26, the bodies were discovered in the Pigapu river not far from Timika. ^[2]

Trial

In August 2022 Mimika military police identified 10 anonymous suspects. From 29 August to 17 September 2022, 9 of the 10 suspects were arrested, four of them being civilians with the fourth having evaded capture and the other six being active soldiers, the soldiers being a captain, a major and four privates. ^{[4] [5]}

On 15 February 2023 a military court sentenced four of the six soldiers, two of them were sentenced to life and the other two were sentenced to 15 and 20 years respectively. ^[3]

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