OPPOSITION leader Ro Teimumu Kepa has called on all Fijians to show their support towards their Melanesian brothers and sisters from West Papua who have been suffering for the last 50 years. [ Visit Website ]
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Benny Wenda gives a talk at Amnesty International Reading 2015
AMNESTY READING – Benny Wenda addressed Amnesty International regarding West Papuan political prisoner on Thursday, 12th March in Reading, United Kingdom. Benny spoke of how the Indonesian government is still holding dozens of political prisoners in West Papua such as Filep Karma who has been jailed for 15 years ever since 2004 just for raising […]
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The Struggle in West Papua
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 […]
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Indonesia criticised by UN over Papua torture
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 ]
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Addressing the Papua issue in the Pacific
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 ]
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NZ: MP criticises government over Indonesian foreign minister visit
“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 ]
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Benny Wenda Launching of the Free West Papua Campaign Cape Town, South Africa
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 […]
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South Africa: West Papua’s “Cry for Help, Cry for Freedom”
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 […]
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Benny Wenda meet King Zwelethu and Tribal headsmen in Cabguba, South Africa
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. […]
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Time to stand up
“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 ]
