The first colonizers Humans first settled New Guinea at least 50,000 years ago, when it was connected to Australia by a land bridge. The British were the first Europeans to attempt colonization, but their 1793 colony was evacuated within two years. The Dutch were next, proclaiming on 24 August 18
Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control - A paper prepared for the Indonesia Human Rights Network, By the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, Elizabeth Brundige, Winter King, Priyneha
Sunday, July 18, 2004 Declassified U.S. Papers Spark Indonesian Rebuke By Alan Sipress Washington Post Foreign Service JAKARTA, Indonesia — The new publication of declassified U.S. documents by a private Washington-based research group, raising questions about Indonesia’s takeover of dis
The Washington Post Sunday, July 18, 2004 Declassified U.S. Papers Spark Indonesian Rebuke By Alan Sipress Washington Post Foreign Service JAKARTA, Indonesia — The new publication of declassified U.S. documents by a private Washington-based research group, raising questions about IndonesiaR
“All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.” - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 1.1 “All peoples may, for their own ends,
Demmak - West Papua Addresses the Green Party Ireland Annual Convention, 1-2 March 2003, in Ennis, Co. Clare, Republic of Ireland WEST PAPUA: Its Illegal Occupation, Its Impacts and the Future, By Sem Karoba, Messenger of Demmak and Mediator of PDP for (RTF Format) Updates from Conflict Prevention
Updates on Legal Proceedings on Theys Eluay’s Assassination per 23 April 2003, by WPNews Indonesia withdraws tainted Kopassus force from Papua, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, February 27, 2003 Indonesia Withdraws Troops From Papua Province, AFP, 27 February 2003 PUBLIC JOINT STATEMENT - ELS-HAM, LB
Indonesia Withdraws Troops From Papua Province JAKARTA, Feb. 27 (AP)–Indonesia’s army said Thursday it was withdrawing its special-forces troops from the secessionist-minded Papua province. Members of the disgraced unit have been accused of killing U.S. teachers there and an independence
From: INDETTEAM at amnesty.org
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 3:02 PM
Subject: Urgent Action - Papua
PUBLIC AI Index: ASA 21/047/2002
UA 344/02 Fear of torture or ill-treatment/28
November 2002
Incommunicado detention
INDONESIA 42 people (names unknown)
Forty-two people are being held in Manokwari Police Resort (Mapolres Manokwari) in Papua Province after being arrested on 26 and 27 November. They are being held in incommunicado detention and are at risk of torture or ill-treatment. More »
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Pacific Magazine (Islands Business)
December 2002
Editorial: We Say
The bombings in Bali are a setback for the independence movement in Indonesian-occupied West Papua. In its October edition, Islands Business in appeasing Indonesia by using their membership of the Pacific Islands Forum to block the Forum from embracing the self-government cause in West Papua. Since the Bali atrocity Australia, judging from how its political leaders and the Australian media have reacted, is frantic to forge the closest possible chummy links with the Indonesian regime. More »
