PAPUA: "William" is refusing to take a coronavirus vaccine because he fears Indonesia's military will use the country's inoculation program to poison him and wipe out his fellow Papuans.

Decades of conflict, racism and human rights abuses are fueling Covid conspiracy theories among his neighbors at a time when their breakaway region is facing a renewed threat from the pandemic.

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