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Category: Human Rights
2011 Operation Sunset Merona Replica Mooted to contain Border Crisis
May 1, 2014
The following is a statement from the Free West Papua Campaign office in Port Moresby, PNG In January 2011, Special Operation Sunset Merona (led by the Papua New Guinea police and army) burned down villages and camps of West Papuan…
Benny Wenda article in The Guardian
April 30, 2014
Source: The Guardian This Anzac Day weekend, we opened the first ever Free West Papua campaign office in Australia. For more than 50 years, my people have suffered what I considered to be a slow-moving genocide under the repressive military occupation of…
Benny Wenda’s statement on the current situation in West Papua
April 11, 2014
Dear friends, brothers and sisters, fellow Papuans, I am writing this statement today to express my concerns over current events within West Papua. I want to tell the world that now is a time when our people are in incredibly…
Demonstrate to free Papuan political prisoners – 2 April
March 18, 2014
Time: 12:00 – 13:00 Date: 2 April 2014, Wednesday Place: In front of the Indonesian Embassy 38 Grosvenor Square, London W1K 2HW Please help to make the voices of the many political prisoners in West Papua heard by attending this…
Two Papuans shot dead and three wounded by Indonesian police
March 16, 2014
WARNING: This article contains some distressing images. According to the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), on Tuesday (11th March), in Timika, West Papua, two people were…
More horror stories emerge from West Papua’s stolen generation
March 12, 2014
Two more West Papuan children have escaped from their boarding school in Jakarta after being tortured and recalled the horrors of their forced conversion to Islam and abuse by their Indonesian captors. Papuan…
Vanuatu PM speaks out for West Papua at UN again
March 4, 2014
The Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Moana Carcasses called for international action on West Papua at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today. Following on from his speech at the UN last September, Mr Carcasses focused his speech on the…
Papuan man seriously beaten by Indonesian Navy Officers
February 17, 2014
WARNING – the following article contains some disturbing images. This article is an edited account of that appearing at Awas MIFEE. According to information compiled by majalahselangkah.com, Blasius Sumaghai, the son of the late Abraham Sumaghai who was an Awyu…
Three year prison sentence for raising West Papuan flag
February 12, 2014
Yesterday the district court of Biak, sentenced Oktavianus Warnares to three years imprisonment for raising the “Morning Star” flag in Biak on May 1, 2013. Four others were also sentenced for the same “offence”, Markus Sawian was sentenced to two…
Guardian report Papuans ‘beaten and had guns held to head’
February 4, 2014
A report in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper recounts the shocking story of a violent interrogation carried out by the Indonesian military and police in a…