This resulted in a stand-off that lasted several days until the morning of 6 July where the Indonesian security forces surrounded and fired upon the crowd.
[1] According to Elsham Papua, a local human rights organization, 8 people were killed and a further 32 bodies were found near Biak in the following days.
[4] In 2013, The Biak Massacre Citizens Tribunal was held at the University of Sydney before jurists Keith Suter and John Dowd with Nicholas Cowdery the former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions acting as counsel assisting.
In his concluding statement, Nicholas Cowdery said, “This was not, on the morning of the 6th of July, some sort of spontaneous violence, it came after days of careful contemplation by the authorities about what was happening and how it might be approached.”[5] In 2021, the Guardian reported that Dan Weadon, an Australian military attaché and intelligence officer was present in Biak five days after the massacre, and had photographed 50 bullet holes on Biak water tower.
"[7] In 2024, the anniversary of the Biak Massacre saw the raising of the Morning Star flag by West Papua supporters at the Indonesian Consulate in Sydney.