THE MORNING STAR
"BIAK"

This is a work of fiction.
The massacre is not. On 6 July 1998 Indonesian security forces opened fire on Papuan civilians gathered beneath the water tower at Biak, and an unknown number were killed.Bodies recovered from the sea in the weeks that followed were attributed by the authorities to a tsunami which struck Papua New Guinea eleven days after the first of them came ashore.No autopsy was performed. No exhumation has ever taken place. No member of the Indonesian security forces has ever been charged.The dates owe nothing to coincidence.