The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (U.L.M.W.P.) forms a provisional government to achieve a referendum and an independent nation. President is Benny Wenda, chairman of the U.L.M.W.P. The Provisional Government has the support of movements both inside West Papua…
ANNIVERSARY: The province’s breakaway movement nominated UK-based exile Benny Wenda as interim president as the region marked the anniversary of a 1961 date The Guardian West Papuan leaders have declared a provisional “government-in-waiting” of the contested Indonesian province, as the…
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…
The exiled leader, Benny Wenda has been nominated as interim president of West Papua Namita Singh, The Independent.co.uk In a significant escalation of the decades-long battle over independence, West Papuan separatist leaders have declared a provisional governmentin exile, for the contested Indonesian province. The United Liberation Movement…
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…