A new article extensively covering the success of West Papua joining the Melanesian Spearhead Group earlier this year has been published in wagingnonviolence.org You can read the full article, “A new hopeful chapter in West Papua’s 50-year freedom struggle” here “A new hopeful chapter in West Papua’s 50-year freedom struggle” is an edited excerpt from the […]
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Photos from the pro MSG rallies and arrests in West Papua on 28th May
On 30th May rallies were held all over West Papua to show support for West Papua joining the subregional Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) through the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP). Up to 82 West Papuans were arrested and many were tortured by the Indonesian authorities. For more information, please see the Free West […]
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Free West Papua demonstration in London
Today the Free West Papua Campaign held a demonstration outside the Indonesian Embassy in London, United Kingdom to call for West Papua to be free and to return to the Melanesian and greater Pacific family. We stood in front of the Embassy in Grosvenor Square and despite the rain we were determined to stay and […]
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Benny Wenda’s article in the PNG Post Courier
The following appeared as a feature in the PNG Post- Courier newspaper on 22nd May 2015. By BENNY WENDA For more than 50 years, my people have suffered a creeping genocide under a repressive Indonesian military occupation that is estimated to have claimed 500,000 West Papuan lives.In one month’s time, the eyes of the Pacific […]
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PHOTOS: West Papuans rally for MSG membership
Today the West Papuan people held rallies all over West Papua and in some Indoensian cities too, asking that West Papua come back to the Melanesian family of the Melanesian Spearhead Group. The people of West Papua put their trust in the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) to represent them within the MSG […]
