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This Sunday 27th April, the Nobel
Peace Prize nominee West Papua independence leader Benny
Wenda will officially open a new Free West Papua
Campaign office in Perth, Australia. The new office will work closely with
our headquarters in Oxford, UK and regional offices in The Hague, Netherlands
and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
The staff there will work to
lobby politicians, churches and members of the Australian public to
coordinate with the world wide efforts to take the case of West Papua to the
highest levels of the UN and to bring justice and peace to the West Papuan
people.
VENUE: Greaves
Room, 5 Neil Street (Victory Life Centre Complex) Osborne Park, WA 6017
DATE: 27th April 2014
TIME: 1pm
for 1.30pm start. Refreshments at 2.30.
BACKGROUND
In 1962 the Indonesian military invaded West Papua.
Seven years later, Indonesia cheated the West Papuan people out of their UN
given right to self-determination, through the Act of Free Choice. Since the
invasion over 500,000 West Papuan civilians have been killed and thousands more
have been raped, tortured or imprisoned.
In opening the new office we will
be working with the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP),
the International Lawyers for West Papua (ILWP) and
the global public to raise the voice of the West Papuan people and tell the
truth about what has happened to them. Now many politicians are raising the
case of West Papua around the world and at the UN.
The Prime minister of Vanuatu Moana Carcassas
recently raised the political status of West Papua at the UN. He stated,
“When it comes to the issue of the rights of the
people of West Papua, our voices are muted even in this podium…How can we
ignore hundreds of thousands of West Papuans who have been brutally beaten and
murdered? The people of West Papua are looking to the UN as a beacon for hope…
Let us, my colleague leaders, with the same moral conviction yield our support
to the plight of West Papuans. It is time for the United Nation to move beyond
its periphery and address and rectify some historical error.”
He went on to say
“We must not be afraid if the UN had made some
mistakes in the past. We must admit our mistakes and correct them.”
Resources: freewestpapua.org
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