West Papua is a place far away inhabited by people of whom we know little. Unfortunately, these people lack oil in their country so why would anyone in the western world give a damn what happens to them. They are ruled by Indonesia and several thousand inhabitants rallied to express their displeasure with being ruled by a colonial power which denied them basic rights. Security personnel(it is amusing how today we term thugs, “security personnel,” fired into the crowd killing several people and then arrested dozens.
The Indonesian Minister of Security, Djoko Suyanto, justified these murders on grounds his nation faced violence. “The police raided the rally because it was already considered a coup d’etat” and West Papuans refused to recognize the president of Indonesia as their president.
There are no reports of any West Papuans possessing weapons. A rather interesting coup d’etat without weapons.