A native of the Jayawijaya highlands in Indonesia's easternmost territory, West Papua, Enambori was five months old when the military bombed his village in the late 1970s. His mother hid him in a straw bag outside their hut before she died in the fighting. Had a neighbour not heard his cries and rescued him into the forest, where other villagers cowered in fear, Enambori would have been killed too. Today Enambori lives in Wamena, a sleepy highland town rudely awakened last weekend when more than 30 people died in a clash between separatists and the police. Similar confrontations have broken out across the province in recent months, and their pattern is identical.
Police then fire into the crowd.
In Wamena, two activists were shot dead and 19 others wounded. In Wamena, the fighting was especially fatal. Bands of guerrillas blocked exit points out of the town, then hunted down migrant settlers suspected of sheltering police officers. The warriors retreated back into the jungle as the town burned. It was the most violent day Enambori had seen since his parents' death.