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Rest in Peace, Rev. James WalsonÂ
Rest in peace, Rev. James Walson We learned with great sadness of the passing away of one of our friends and supporters, Rev. James Walson—someone who inspired many of us in our self-determination movement. He was someone who always urged us to pursue justice through non-violent means; he was a huge inspiration to many of us.I
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The Guardian: Australia ignores West Papua because of fear of China
A Guardian report indicated that Australia fears China’s expansion and aggression in Southeast Asia and the Pacific and is willing to turn a blind eye to the human rights violations that are going on in West Papua. The Australia defense force has been training Indonesian military as a buffer against Chinese expansion and aggression. As
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin must ask Indonesia to open up West Papua
Good afternoon to all our brothers, sisters, and supporters here in America. And hello to our brothers and sisters back home in West Papua Melanesia and to all our brothers and sisters in the Pacific, including Pacific Island leaders all over Oceania. Greetings from America! I’m standing here in front of the US Congressional building
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Message to the Melanesian Spearhead Group
Good morning the government of the United States of America. Good morning to the Indonesian government in Jakarta. Everyone knows our country our Melanesian nation of West Papua is still under the dictatorship of the Indonesian government. And in this day and age, it is unacceptable to subjugate people in 2023 against international law. Today,
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Mr. Paiki and Robaha presented ‘Washington Solution’ to Indonesian representatives
In Port Numbay, West Papua, yesterday (August 15), indigenous people gathered to remember the New York Agreement, and how that agreement affected our indigenous people for the past six decades. Leading the meeting were Mr. Septinus Paiki and Pilipus Robaha. Some West Papuan Representatives of the Indonesian State Intelligence Agency also attended. Mr. Paiki and
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The Washington Solution
A lasting solution to West Papua-Indonesian conflict By Herman Wainggai and the ‘West Papuan Human Rights Center’ Introduction It has been 54 years since the election of 1969, which gave Indonesia legal cover to occupyWest Papua in spite of the fact that 99.9% of the indigenous people did not vote in support ofthe occupation of
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Indonesia must recognize our right to self-determination
In 2020, a representative of the Indonesian government, in response to the Vanuatu government’s call for a UN fact-finding mission to West Papua, accused Vanuatu and other PIF Island states of interfering in Indonesian domestic issues. She went on to say that Indonesia is the “third largest “democracy” in the world and one of the
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A short conversation with Paiki at Martin Luther King Memorial and our visit to Lincoln Memorial
Conversing with Mr. Paiki at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C, about his experience – from Indonesian prison to the US, and standing here at this sacred place. And what message he wanted to send our political activists back home. It was an honor for me to be with and speak with
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WPHRC Welcomes the delegation of the Melanesian Nation of West Papua to Washington, D.C
The journey of the Melanesian Delegation started in West Papua and arrived in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2023. It took approximately 6 hours from the city of Jayapura to Jakarta, Indonesia where the United States embassy is located. After a brief waiting period, the US embassy finally granted their visas to travel to Washington,
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New Year’s Message from our CEO (PNG Pijin with Subtitles)
In his New Year’s message to supporters around the world and back home in West Papua, Mr. Wainggai – speaking in PNG Pijin – urged supporters to speak up against Indonesian colonial oppression and human rights violations, which he said continued unabated in West Papua. As we reported earlier, more than seventy West Papuans have
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