As others have said this is not new, merely graphic video of techniques which have been used since the 1960s. The Conflict is over sovereignty, Indonesian forces dispute the Papuan claims that they have rights of free choice and sovereignty.
The United Nations members are silent because in 1962 they supported the sale of human beings from the Netherlands to Indonesia at the request of the United States; they did this in UN General Assembly resolution 1752 (XVII). And the United States admitted it's motive in the US Department of State summary for 1961-1963, "The underlying reason that the Kennedy administration pressed the Netherlands to accept this agreement was that it believed that Cold War considerations of preventing Indonesia from going Communist overrode the Dutch case."
The United Nations is silent because in 1969 it sanctioned today's colonial rule and other human rights abuses in West Papua: it did this in UN General Assembly resolution 2504 (XXIV). The UN distanced itself from the Indonesian actions with the words "arrangements for the act of free choice were the responsibility of Indonesia", the United Nations did not say the "act of free choice" was a referendum or was self-determination, and the United Nations did not say who has West Papua's sovereignty.
Copies of the above mentioned documents are at http://www.wpik.org
Ordinary citizens can demand their government answers the four simple questions posed in Project 20101010.
