West Papua

29/1/2013

In Nov/Dec 2012 I travelled to West Papua with film maker Dom Rotheroe to make a documentary for Al Jazeera English about the ongoing struggle for West Papuan independence. Travelling undercover, we met with members of the KNPB (National Committe for West Papua) to explore the largely unreported 'silent genocide' taking place in the face of a 40+ year Indonesian military occupation.

The documentary will be broadcast in the 'People & Power' slot at 22.30 (GMT) tomorrow, Wednesday January 30 and repeated on Thursday 31/01, 0930; Friday 01/02 0330; Saturday 02/02 1630; Sunday 03/02 2230; Monday 04/02 0930 - all times GMT.

I really hope you will watch and share it, as it's important that the world is alerted to the human rights and environmental tragedies taking place in West Papua.

View a set of images from the trip in my new West Papua 2012 Gallery page

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29/1/2013 08:37:59 am

West Papua (West New Guinea) has been under Indonesian military occupation since May 1963, but this occupation is under terms of a trusteeship agreement approved by the UN General Assembly (resolution 1752 (XVII) as allowed by chapter 12 of the UN Charter.

West Papua is a United Nations trust territory, it is the only UN trust territory left, and is the only trust territory for which the UN has not pressed for a referendum by the indigenous people.

Hundreds of thousands have been killed and the nation is still under hostile foreign occupation for the simple reason that certain Americans wanted Papua's mineral wealth. The US adviser Robert Lovett and his friend McGeorge Bundy were at the center of this scheme whereby the US asked the other UN members to ignore the declaration of independence in October 1961 and campaigned for the membership to declare West Papua a trust territory under UN occupation in 1962.

There is a lot of money and a lot of abuse of the legal processes involved in the plight of West Papua and the American quest for gold.

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