in the provincial capital jayapura what began 2 months ago as a demonstration by people on the indonesian island of pop or against racial discrimination reinvigorated a decades old movement for independence and those tensions burst into violence last week in jayapura and the town of woman are forcing residents to flee. their houses and doors open we tried to escape from the back of the house and had to break the wall we met 2 indigenous pop on whom and who helped us to get to the police they saved our lives the riot started last week after a teacher referred to her native students as apes according to social media reports fighting between student protesters and security forces in what manner left dozens of people killed and injured ethnic tensions began intensifying in august that's off the rumors spread the student living on java island had damaged an indonesian national flag the video footage also showed indonesian security forces calling up and students monkeys and dogs that are there to thousands protesting for weeks against alleged racism and discrimination against people in papua an