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Editor’s note by Luwezi Kinshasa, LONDON–The massacre of a half-million communists between 1965 and 1966, the massive jailing and raping of women by Suharto’s Indonesian army, the illegal occupation of East Timor by the Jakarta regime that resulted in the killing of more than 180,000 people, almost a third of the population — are all […]

The United Nations special rapporteur on torture has criticised the Indonesian government’s breakup of demonstrations in West Papua last year, saying it breached international conventions on torture. [ Visit Website ]

Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi visited three Pacific countries this week, namely Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands and Fiji, to strengthen relations between Indonesia and Pacific nations. [ Visit Website ]

“This is a quiet war against the people of West Papua. It’s very disappointing to have on the one hand the government saying we must participate in a war to protect human rights and yet the war in our region, the attack on West Papuan people, they are really not doing anything about it.” [ Visit Website ]

SOUTH AFRICA – Nobel Peace Prize nominee and West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda visited in Cape Town, South Africa for freedom tour and seeking help from our brothers and sisters black race world-wide who had experience fighting against colonialism and apartheid systems thousands years ago. Mind wild Benny Wenda had welcoming by his brothers […]

On 17 February Equal Education hosted a talk by Benny Wenda of the Free West Papua Campaign at the Wits School of Education. He is in South Africa to spread awareness about the West Papuan fight against Indonesian colonialism and gross human rights abuses of the West Papuan people. He said he was also here […]

SOUTH AFRICA – Cabguba, Benny Wenda meeting with King Zwelethu as well as Tribal headsmen which is Benny explained the current situation and in the past where Indonesia colonisation since 1963. The meeting was taking place in Cabguba, South Africa this month. The King gives the support of his people to the West Papuan people. […]

“FOR too long, we have failed to speak out against Indonesia’s brutal oppression of the West Papua people,” says president of the Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma, Reverend Tevita Banivanua. [ Visit Website ]

FIJI – According to the Fiji Times newspaper online reported Free West Papua rally held in Fiji this month to protested and “speak out against Indonesia’s brutal oppresion of the West Papuan”, says president of the Methodist Church and Rotuma, Reverend Tevita Banivanua on Friday (20/2/2015) in Suva – Fiji. There were some organisation including […]

SIMON DEGEI sat amid the ground cover, a gaping hole in his right shoulder obscured by a bloodied tank-top, and his face covered in dirt. It is difficult to tell from the picture precisely how long he had left. But Degei is looking to the sky and his gaze is distant; these are his last […]