NEW YORK in the Summer of ‘62 Dear everyone, Almost exactly 53 years ago, on 15th August in 1962, the future of my people’s country West Papua was determined without us by 3 foreign powers. These were: the Netherlands-our former colonial rulers, Indonesia-our current colonial rulers, and the USA-with economic and cold war interests in West […]
"Act of Free Choice"
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Benny Wenda gives a talk at Sheffield University Law School
On 11th May Benny Wenda gave a talk at the University of Sheffield School of Law in the United Kingdom. He talked about how the case for West Papua was very strong under international law, after West Papua was illegally occupied by Indonesia without the consent of the West Papuan people. Benny said that Indonesia […]
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Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu meets with Benny, renews call for UN review of West Papuan self-determination
On 27th February 2015 Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu met with West Papuan independence leader and founder of the Free West Papua Campaign, Benny Wenda, in Cape Town, South Africa. He has released the following statement renewing his call for the UN to instigate an investigation into the so called Act of ‘Free’ Choice in which Indonesia […]
