What happened?
In the video we see many civilians of West Papua being tortured in brutal ways such as; being kicked in the face, strangled, trodden on and just severely beaten. I think this is totally out of order and should not be happening, I think that there must be a problem in West Papua for this to be happening, the people that are torturing the civilians must feel out of power or need to get a lot of anger off their backs for them to want to do this because there is no other reasonable explanation. So I think that there is a power issue in West Papua and this needs to be resolved soon before this torture leads to death.
Would this of come to light if there was no mobile phone footage?
I don’t think that this would have come to light, because after seeing the footage it looks like a normal occurrence and that it has been happening for some time so therefore no one would have known that this was happening.
How has this type of reportage ( mobile phones used by non-journalists) influenced the way we receive and perceive information?
This type of reportage has opened the worlds eyes to many things that we didn’t think occurred however they do, I think it also makes the rest of the world realise the seriousness of what is happening in other countries and makes people realise how privileged we are.
What other examples have you seen recently?
An example of this that we have seen recently is the death of Neda Agha Soltan, we saw her die on a video phone during the Iranian protests in 2009. This is a very similar incident however people would have known about this because it was at a worldwide event
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