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West Papuan independence - Politician's APEC plea to Australia |
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Written by fPcN - friends of Peoples close to Nature
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Aug 16, 2007 at 04:42 PM |
A politician from Indonesia's Papua province has called on the Australian government to raise the issue of Papuan independence from fPcN - friends of Peoples close to Nature: defenders of free tribal life 
By RADIO AUSTRALIA NEWS
Aug 9, 2007, 13:12
| A politician from Indonesia's Papua province has called on the Australian government to raise the issue of Papuan independence with the Indonesian president at next month's APEC summit in Sydney. The chairman of the upper house of the Papuan People's Assembly, Agus Alue Alua, was speaking at a human rights conference at Sydney University. He says since special autonomy was introduced to the province five years ago, Indonesia has doubled its military deployment there and human rights violations against Papuans have increased. "We need international mediation to start a dialogue to achieve the solution of political problem and human rights violation in West Papua," Mr Alue Alua said. The former Dutch colony in the western half of the island of New Guinea has a majority Melanesian population and was incorporated into Indonesia as a province in the 1960s. An armed seccessionist group has been fighting for independence ever since. |
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