Steve Sweeney talks to West Papuan independence leader BENNY WENDA about the struggle against brutal Indonesian occupation, his experiences of racist persecution and his pledge to make West Papua ‘the first green state in the world’ after liberation It HAS…
West Papuan leaders have declared a provisional “government-in-waiting” of the contested Indonesian province, as the United Nations said it was “disturbed by escalating violence” there, including the killing of a child allegedly by security forces. The province marks independence day…
West Papua leaders said the United Nations was “confused by intensified violence,” including the alleged killing of children by security forces, a provisional “waiting” for the disputed Indonesian state. Declared “Government”. The state is December 1st Independence Day, the anniversary…
Benny Wenda has been declared the interim president of a West Papuan ‘government-in-waiting’, and tells Chantal Da Silva, Indonesia’s in the province is ‘illegal’ For more than two decades, Benny Wenda, a West Papuan liberation leader exiled in the UK, has…
BY SBS NEWS Hundreds of Papuans held rallies across at least eight cities in Indonesia on Tuesday to renew calls for independence, as a separatist group declared it had established a provisional government in exile. The demonstrations marked the anniversary…
Recent tensions have been connected to Jakarta’s planned extension of the region’s Special Autonomy Law. The United Nations has once again voiced its consternation about the tense political situation in Indonesia’s Papua region, after months of escalating tensions between the…
Published Monday 2nd December 2019, 22:47 Reports by human rights defenders and media articles mention a total of 104 arrests in multiple locations across West Papua. The arrests occurred in relation to commemorations of 1st December, which many indigenous Papuans regard…
By Len Garae Dec 2, 2019 Updated Dec 2, 2019. Vanuatu Daily Post Yesterday morning on December 1, the Morning Star West Papua flag was hoisted next to the Vanuatu flag by the Caretaker of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua Office,…
The Morning Star There’s a bright and burning star in an equatorial sky,And it burns for a people who’s day is yet to come,It burns with a quite burning,It burns with quite yearning.And it burns to the beat of a…
In solidarity with West Papuans today on Gumbaynggirr Country- Bellingen, Pacific Highway Australia Flying the Morning Star Flag with lots of toots of support for a Free West Papua. People are learning the truth, it can not be hidden. 58th…