Indonesian illegal gold panning and associated gold rush industries, which are backed by military forces and...Paramilitary police, put local Paniai indigenous people in an escalating one-sided conflict in this mountainous and resource-rich zone...Security forces, Police Mobile Brigade (BRIMOB), opened fire and shot dead a young tribal leader and injured 4 other civilians in Degewo, Paniai District...15 May 2012...The victims said...that the...Brimob...protection for...[some] business[es] was the reason for them as indigenous West Papuans to be shot...All victims are from Wolani tribe, who are just becoming known to others because of the gold in their land. They are new to...modern life...after Indonesian security forces brought in outsiders...and opened...small local businesses illegally against the ownership of the indigenous people...Small-scale gold mining activities in Degeuwo are carried out illegally by non-Papuans...[The] Papuan Police send officers...to guard the mine sites...