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West Papua independence leader, Interim President of ULMWP Provisional Government, and founder of the Free West Papua Campaign. #FreeWestPapua

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@BennyWenda
Benny Wenda
4 years
Solidarity from the people of #WestPapua for #GeorgeFlyod . Across the world, Black people are being killed and dehumanised. Enough is enough. #BlackLivesMatter #FreeWestPapua
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@jeremycorbyn ⁩ has long been a friend of the West Papuan people. Thank you for your speech on December 1st, and for your consistent support and solidarity
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@BennyWenda
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4 years
More devastating images have emerged showing the scale of deforestation in #WestPapua , where locals are being forced off ancestral lands by #Indonesia 's military to make way for palm oil plantations. Location: Anggai, Jair District and Boven Digoel District - January 11, 2020
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@BennyWenda
Benny Wenda
3 years
Thank you President @KRLS for all your enduring support. The solidarity of the people of Catalonia means much to people struggling for freedom in West Papua.
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krls.eth / Carles Puigdemont
3 years
My full support to the #GreenStateVision , a world-leading proposal for an independent Republic of West Papua based on #ClimateJustice & Indigenous wisdom, under the leadership of president @BennyWenda . #FreeWestPapua #COP26
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@BennyWenda
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5 years
Please tell your family, your friends, your work colleagues about the struggle for freedom in occupied West Papua. We have been silenced for over 50 years by the colonial Indonesian regime that has denied us the most basic of rights. But they cannot silence us. We will be free.
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5 years
Some facts on West Papua: > Human rights groups are banned. > International media are banned. > UN denied access to investigate. > Over 500,000 civilians have been murdered > Racism, discrimination, rape & torture are the norm. ...and Indonesia wonders why we want freedom!
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4 years
Illegal logging operations controlled by #Indonesia 's military are accelerating the rate of deforestation in occupied #WestPapua to over 300,000 hectares annually. Land is forcibly taken from local people, leaving them unable to feed themselves & their children. #ClimateCrisis
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@BennyWenda
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4 years
This is West Papua. Indigenous Papuans people forced to crawl through the streets by Indonesian police, stripped of their dignity. Oppression, discrimination and racism are omnipresent. Basic human rights do not exist. Foreign media and @UNHumanRights observers denied access.
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@BennyWenda
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5 years
Today in West Papua - 21 protestors killed, 65 critically injured, 318 arrested. This is a state of emergency. #Indonesia 's military operate with total impunity, backed up civilian militia. The people of #WestPapua require urgent @UN international assistance & protection. #UNGA
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@BennyWenda
Benny Wenda
5 years
Today we remember the life of West Papuan leader Theys Eluay. 18 years ago today he was assassinated by Indonesian Special Forces, and his driver Aristoteles Masoka was a victim of forced disappearance. May they both rest in peace.
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This is systematic killing, part of Jakarta’s plan to wipe out all resistance to its rule in West Papua. These deaths have occurred at the same time that Indonesia has sent over 20,000 new troops into W P. They are killing us because we are different because weareBlack MELANESIAN
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@BennyWenda
Benny Wenda
5 years
There are those who say West Papua has nothing to do with them. But the fact is, the very device you are using to read this contains minerals like #gold which is being plundered from #WestPapua by the #IndonesianGovernment . In reality, the issue of West Papua affects us all....
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@BennyWenda
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1 month
Indonesia Military Committed Atrocities Against Civilians in West Papua. Stop the violence, stop the bloodshed and stop the genocide towards Melanesian West Papuan.
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4 years
The rainforests of West Papua are the earth's lungs. Illegal logging operations controlled by Indonesia's military have accelerated the rate of deforestation to over 300,000 hectares annually. Anyone that stands in their way is arrested, tortured, raped & killed #FreeWestPapua
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@BennyWenda
Benny Wenda
1 year
Indonesia must immediately release Governor Lukas Enembe, who has been arrested on false corruption charges. Governor Enembe is paralysed and needs urgent medical attention. While he is being held by Indonesia his life is in danger
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4 years
Indonesia is a racist country. For #WestPapuans , this is our reality. The Indonesian legal system jails the perpetrator of racist attacks for 5 months, yet threatens West Papuans like #BuchtarTabuni who resist racism with 17 years in jail. #PapuanLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter
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5 years
#Indonesia 's only interest in #WestPapua is to steal our natural resources. They are logging our ancient forests, destroying our sacred mountains and forcing my people from our land. Anyone that stands in their way is arrested, imprisoned, raped and killed.
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5 months
When you celebrate Christmas with your family please remember my people s in your prayers. My people were forcefully displaced by Indonesian military in Intan Jaya to Nduga, Oksibil to maybarat to Yahukimo, tens of thousands of West Papuans continue to suffer a hidden refugee.
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@BennyWenda
Benny Wenda
5 years
For the past 12 days, thousands of people have been taking to the streets across #WestPapua demanding freedom from Indonesia. Yesterday 6 protestors were shot dead. Today 15 protestors have been injured with rubber bullets. Gunfire can be heard in the capital Jayapura after dark.
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5 years
As Indonesia deliberately tries to create ethnic conflict in #WestPapua with militia, I must stress that for #WestPapuans our enemy is NOT the #Indonesian people. Our enemy is only the system of colonialism. We will NOT be provoked. Our peaceful struggle is for a #referendum .
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4 years
They called us "monkeys" "slaves" "cannibals" and the N-word. With coordinated racist attacks towards #Vanuatu , the #IndonesiaGov have shown they are racist towards ALL #Melanesians , #PacificIslanders & #BlackPeople globally. We are proud to be who we are!✊🏿 #BlackLivesMatter
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4 years
It brings tears to my eyes when I see my people being treated like this by the colonial Indonesian regime but it brings hope to my heart that so many people are finding out about #WestPapua and standing in solidarity. #BlackLivesMatter #PapuanLivesMatter #FreeWestPapua
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3 years
I issue this urgent warning to the world: huge Indonesian military operations, some of the largest in years, are imminent in West Papua. The internet is being cut off and hundreds more troops are being deployed.
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Benny Wenda
3 years
Very proud of @suigenerisjen , my lawyer and co-founder of @ILWPHQ , for expertly breaking down #WestPapua 's fundamental right to #selfdetermination and #Australia 's legal and moral obligation to support it. @QandA . Full episode here: #FreeWestPapua
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8 months
Today demo in front of the Indonesian Embassy in London. The protest is to demand the Military to withdraw from West Papua because the Indonesian soldiers have committed massacres in Yahukimo and Fakfak, as well as torturing elders in Manokwari and displacing hundreds.
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Benny Wenda
3 months
Prabowo is a war criminal who is complicit in genocide in West Papua and East Timor. However, we are suffering under military occupation with Jokowi as well as Prabowo. Over 100,000 West Papuans have been displaced under this government. We are murdered whoever is in power.
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@BennyWenda
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4 years
Today people around the world are standing in solidarity with the people of West Papua to call for the release of the #Balikpapan7 and all West Papuan political prisoners. #FreeTheBalikpapan7 ! #BlackLivesMatter #PapuanLivesMatter
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4 years
Today 6th July, we remember the #BiakMassacre in #WestPapua when the Indonesian military killed, tortured, raped and mutilated over 150 #WestPapuans in 1998. No one has been brought to justice for this #CrimeAgainstHumanity . Rest in Peace all those who died. #JusticeForWestPapua
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Benny Wenda
1 year
Thank you to Lord Harries for your tireless support, as well as Lords Lexden, Kennedy, Hannay, and Purvis. Pressure is growing on Indonesia. They cannot ignore the international call for a UN visit any longer @MsgSecretariat @ForumSEC @UNHumanRights
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5 years
Over 1.8 million West Papuans signed a petition demanding independence from #Indonesia , which was delivered to @UNHumanRights Commissioner @mbachelet . Self-determination is our inalienable right. It's time for the @UN to put right the wrongs of the past. #UNGA #WestPapua
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Benny Wenda
1 year
Today we officially launched Labour Friends of West Papua in UK Houses of parliament. Thank you⁩ ⁦ @alexsobel ⁩ for hosting. ⁦It was a great turn out. Follow ⁦⁦ @_LFWP ⁩ for more. ⁦⁦ @Chris_Saltmarsh ⁩ ⁦⁦ @KotekalaliWenda ⁩ ⁦ @BazokaLogo ⁩.
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The Indonesian government are committing genocide in West Papua.More than 5000 thousand West Papuans have been killed by the Indonesians military.We need the world to open there eyes to the injustices taken place in West Papua.
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5 years
Thank you to Canadian artist Caleb Hamm for creating this powerful artwork illustrating the struggle for freedom in #WestPapua . One day we will be free people once more.
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Benny Wenda
4 years
On behalf of the people of #WestPapua I would like to congratulate Hon. @NanaiaMahuta , the new Minister of Foreign Affairs of Aotearoa New Zealand. Your appointment makes Pacific people proud. Kia ora. Wa wa wa.
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Benny Wenda
2 years
I send the condolences to the people of South Africa. I was privileged to meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2015, He told me that Benny: “The people of West Papua and their struggle are in my prayers” He gave me confidence and inspired me to liberate my people from Indonesia.
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5 years
The people of #WestPapua have suffered for over 50 years under #Indonesia 's illegal colonial occupation. We will never give up our struggle to be free.
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3 years
“It’s a very important day for my people. We are now restoring our sovereignty and our provisional government of #WestPapua .” This is our road to independence:
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5 years
There are hundreds of West Papuans being held as #politicalprisoners by the Indonesian regime. Many are serving life sentences for the 'crime' of peacefully protesting against #Indonesia 's colonial rule or being members of organisations calling for #WestPapua 's independence.
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3 years
On behalf of the people of #WestPapua , I send my deepest condolences to the people of #Ghana 🇬🇭 following the passing of former President @officeofJJR . President Rawlings was a strong #FreeWestPapua supporter & told me "Keep fighting!” Rest in Power ✊🏿 One day we will be free.
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2 years
My deepest thanks and appreciation to Catlan MEPs President Puigdemont @KRLS , @toni_comin and @ClaraPonsati for all their enduring support and solidarity with our cause.
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Josep Lluís Alay
2 years
On the 60th anniversary of West Papua's flag raising, Catalan MEPs President Puigdemont @KRLS , @toni_comin and @ClaraPonsati call on the European Union to intervene in favor of the people of West Papua living under brutal Indonesian occupation #FreeWestPapua
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4 years
Today, 1 July 2020 marks the 49th Anniversary of the Independence Proclamation of the state of #WestPapua , on 1 July 1971. #PapuaMerdeka On July 1, remember a milestone in our struggle. My statement today as Chairman of #ULMWP : #ReferendumYes
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1 year
It was a great honour to meet Chief @RoTeimumuKepa . An inspirational woman who works to maintain her people’s traditional culture. Together we are building new ties between our two Melanesian nations and future of our Peoples from West papua to Fiji.
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4 years
This is #BuchtarTabuni , Chair of the #WestPapua National Parliament & Deputy Chair of the ULMWP Legislative Council. He has just been charged with "treason" and faces 17 years in jail for his part in anti-racism protests last year. #FreeBuchtarTabuni
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5 years
Peaceful protests in #WestPapua are met with a violent response by #Indonesia 's security forces. UN observers, international media and human rights groups are all denied access to visit the region. Indonesia is committing genocide. Over 500,000 innocent civilians killed. #UNGA
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1 year
It was an honour to meet with Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau and discuss West Papua's return to its Melanesian family in MSG. West Papua and Vanuatu share a special bond. They continue to stand by our side
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3 years
It is with a sad, heavy heart that I inform you all of the passing of a dear freedom fighter, #FredMambrasar , the coordinator of the #FreeWestPapua Campaign in Papua New Guinea. Always remembered. I send my sincere condolences to the family and friends of our fallen hero. RIP.
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4 years
On behalf of the people of #WestPapua , I would like to convey my deepest thanks to @KRLS for his incredible solidarity with my people's struggle for #SelfDetermination . I encourage all parliamentarians around the world to join #IPWP and stand up for what is right. #FreeWestPapua
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krls.eth / Carles Puigdemont
4 years
To defend the inalienable right of the people of #WestPapua to self-determination, I joined the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP) Group, set up in 2008 by exiled independence leader @BennyWenda . #FreeWestPapua
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4 years
#Indonesia releases 30,000 Indonesians due to Covid but refuses to release #WestPapuan #politicalprisoners jailed for peacefully demanding freedom. Please Take Action for #WestPapua today by calling the #IndonesianPolice & demanding their release. Details:
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7 years
Today, I delivered the West Papuan People's Petition, singed by over 70% of my people, to the #UnitedNations .
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4 years
As people across #WestPapua raise our national flag today I urge the Indonesian military to exercise restraint and respect our universal human right to peaceful expression. The world is watching. We are the Morning Star. We will be free. #FreeWestPapua
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5 years
I would like to thank @OxfordCity and the people of Oxford for their generosity and support in conveying the Freedom of Oxford award. The people of West Papua know that our struggle for freedom from Indonesia is an issue that has touched the hearts of millions around the world.
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5 years
Thank you to Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele and our friends in #SolomonIslands for raising concern at #UNGA about the ongoing #humanrights crisis and calling for #Indonesia to allow @mbachelet @UNHumanRights to visit. Watch his address:
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6 months
Thank you President Puigdemont for your solidarity and consistent support for the people of West Papua and their struggle for self determination.
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Josep Lluís Alay
6 months
Com cada any hissem a la Casa de la República Catalana la bandera estelada de Papua Occidental per solidaritzar-nos amb la lluita per la llibertat i la independència del poble papú. La seva lluita també és la nostra. Dia de la Independència de Papua Occidental @BennyWenda .
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More devastating images have emerged showing the scale of deforestation in #WestPapua , where locals are being forced off ancestral lands by #Indonesia 's military to make way for palm oil plantations. Location: Anggai, Jair District and Boven Digoel District - January 11, 2020
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Vanuatu Chiefs, people and students Showing solidarity for West Papua ‘Papua Merdeka, Papua Merdeka’
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5 years
The 1969 @UN Act of Free Choice was a violation of West Papua’s legal right to self-determination, a violation of UN Charter Article 73, and a breach of #Indonesia ’s treaty obligations under the New York Agreement. Decolonisation of #WestPapua remains unfinished business. #UNGA
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Eyewitness testimony from a journalist present during @UN Act of Free Choice referendum that handed control of #WestPapua to #Indonesia "It wasn't free & there was no choice. West Papuans shouted for independence...they were bashed up & put in the back of an army truck" #UNGA
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4 years
Historic news from the UK where the British government has declared its support for the UN High Commissioner for #HumanRights to visit #WestPapua . The UK now joins 79 other countries and the UN itself in calling for the visit. Huge thanks to @alexsobel for all his work on this.
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2 years
Today in west papua peaceful protest rejection of special autonomy and partition of the provinces by Papuan the response by Indonesia police and military with the violence. I call UN high commissioner urgently visit west papua to see what happening! @UNHumanRights @UN @
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9 months
West Papua for full member of Melanesia Spearhead Group MSG.
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4 years
Many thanks to the Lord Mayor of Oxford and @OxfordCity Council for raising the #WestPapua flag above Oxford Town Hall today, and to all supporters around the world who have taken action in solidarity with the struggle against Indonesia's colonial occupation of West Papua.
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1 year
It was great to speak with @alexsobel , @jeremycorbyn and others at the West Papua APPG. We spoke about the delayed UN visit and I provided an update on the human rights situation. Together we continue to work for self-determination and a free West Papua.
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4 years
We are not being killed for what we have done, we are being killed for who we are. We are Papuans. #FreeWestPapua #BlackLivesMatter
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Your support and the support of your people is deeply appreciated @KRLS . The people of #WestPapua are forever grateful for the solidarity of the Catalan people with our struggle for #selfdetermination and independence. #FreeWestPapua
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krls.eth / Carles Puigdemont
3 years
Today is the anniversary of the first flag raising of the Morning Star, the symbol of #FreeWestPapua and now banned in their homeland. We raised it at the House of the Catalan Republic in solidarity with West Papua and to welcome the new Provisional Government led by @BennyWenda .
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My people have been calling for our right to self-determination for decades: since we were a Dutch non-self governing territory in the 1950s and since Indonesia’s unlawful occupation in the 1960s Our movement grows stronger ever day #WestPapua #FreeWestPapua #PapuanLivesMatter
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West Papuan have begun their movement for self determination. For decades, mining companies and the Indonesian government have engaged in a program of systematic abuse, disappearances and persecution to keep their interests. #MilkTeaAlliance
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In December 2017, I presented a copy of the Papuan Peoples Petition to Rafael Ramírez, Chair of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization. Over 1.8 million West Papuans signed the petition, demanding an independence referendum. The @UN must now put right the wrongs of the past.
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We the people of #WestPapua are not demonstrating in our tens of thousands to be described by the media as part of a "low-level separatist insurgency". We are rallying to show the world that the huge majority of #WestPapuans want independence. #WestPapuaUprising #Referendum
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Indonesia Military Launch the Military Operation in West Papua targeting the villages with harassment and intimidation towards the civilian. You can see the Old man with his wife face?
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4 years
West Papua has been under Indonesian military occupation since 1963. International media, the UN & human rights groups are all denied access by the Indonesian Government. It is the scene of an ongoing genocide - of the people, their ancient culture & environment. #FreeWestPapua
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2 years
The Meeting between the Members of the Spanish Congress and Interim President of West Papua in Madrid discuss the human rights situation in West Papua. @FreeWestPapua @g_elejabarrieta
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1 year
Rest in peace Dame Vivienne Westwood. Thank you for your strong support for West Papuan liberation @realjoecorre @FollowWestwood
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5 years
The people of #WestPapua live under conditions alike to apartheid. Racism and discrimination is endemic. Basic #humanrights are denied, including freedom of speech and political choice. We are being slowly suffocated by #Indonesia 's colonial occupation. #UNGA
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4 years
Please tell your family, your friends and your work colleagues about the struggle for freedom in occupied West Papua. Racism, discrimination, forced disappearances, rape and murder are the reality of daily life. We want to be free from Indonesia.
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1 year
Yesterday (20/05/23) our Timor-Leste brothers and sisters celebrated twenty-one years of Independence from Indonesian colonial rule. I hope that one day West Papua can celebrate the same freedom. #timorleste #easttimor
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5 years
Two petitions have been presented to the @UN Resident Coordinator in Papua New Guinea @gianlucarampoll - one signed by West Papuans and the other by neighbouring PNG citizens - demanding the UN immediately intervene and address #WestPapua 's humanitarian crisis.
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Papuan people throughout the territory of West Papua have held huge demonstrations of support for full membership of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) in the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG)
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We will remember  you and so will the Next Generation to come. You were the simple man but always powerful and brave  against the Jakarta system that imposed to us. Thank You for being the governor of the people of West papua and  Lani people. Rest in Peace.
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5 years
Only 0.2% of the population were allowed to vote in the 1969 @UN Act of Free Choice referendum that formalised #Indonesia 's colonial occupation of #WestPapua . We will not stop this struggle until we are granted a free and fair referendum, held to international standards.
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5 years
“The referendum #WestPapua is demanding is their right under international law. This is not a separatist issue or simply an internal matter for Indonesia. It is the unfinished decolonisation agenda of the @UN ”: my lawyer @suigenerisjen @DoughtyStIntl
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2 years
Our meeting in the Dutch Parliament this week. For 60 years West Papua has not had the opportunity to address the humanitarian crisis in our land and the violation of our right to self determination. Thank you to the Dutch Foreign Affairs Committee. #FreeWestPapua
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5 years
In December 2014, a historic gathering of West Papuan leaders in Vanuatu saw different factions of the independence movement unite to form a new body called the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP). We are one people, one soul.
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Outside the London headquarters of @BP_plc with Vivienne Westwood, Raki Ap, Joe Corre and activists from #ExtinctionRebellion , highlighting the crimes against the environment that BP are committing in occupied #WestPapua .
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Benny Wenda
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This year marks exactly 50 years since #WestPapua was illegally colonised by #Indonesia . From the highlands to the lowlands and islands, we are united for a #FreeWestPapua .
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Indonesia has committed a mass secret genocide in the land of West Papua for the past 60 years, how many more years will the world ignore the cries of justice and freedom in West Papua?.
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Benny Wenda
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Wantok Blong Me- Gud nait. God bless us, the 7th MACFest in Port Villa, Vanuatu, July 2023. Brotha and Sista, Be ready for the 8th MACFest in Suva, Fiji. Bulaaaaaa. Waaa waaa waaa
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Benny Wenda
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The #IndonesianGovernment doesn't want you to see this image. They shut the internet, shut phone lines, shut social media & cut electricity across #WestPapua to try & stop the world from finding out that we are united in our peaceful struggle for a #referendum . #WestPapuaUprising
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Benny Wenda
3 years
Today West Papuan students from #UNIPA University in #Manokwari sat & lay down in front of the Indonesian military & police to show that we are unable to move freely on our own land. They joined hundreds of others in rejecting Indonesia's colonial "Autonomy Bill" for #WestPapua .
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Benny Wenda
5 years
I hope that #Indonesia 's President @jokowi is willing to sit down with me to discuss the future of #WestPapua . Please see below statement, including conditions that must be met before the ULMWP can agree to a meeting.
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Benny Wenda
3 years
Happy Independence Day Papua New Guinea!🇵🇬 We are one island, with one ancestor. Just because a colonial border separates us, does not mean we are destined to be apart forever. One day this artificial line will fall like the Berlin Wall. #WestPapua #PNG
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Benny Wenda
2 years
Indonesian police have arrested six West Papuans at a peaceful rally in Jayapura, where they were protesting the renewal of ‘Special Autonomy’ and Indonesia’s partition plan to divide West Papua into five new provinces.⁦ @UNHumanRights ⁩⁦ @MsgSecretariat ⁩⁦ @ForumSEC .
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Benny Wenda
5 years
#Indonesia 's colonial occupation of #WestPapua has been over 50 years of racism, torture, injustice, discrimination and genocide. We want to be a free people. Free to determine our own future. Free to live in peace. Free from Indonesia. #FreeWestPapua
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Benny Wenda
4 years
The 79 member states of the Africa Caribbean Pacific (ACP) group have passed a resolution at this week’s 9th ACP Summit of Heads of State and Government calling for urgent attention to be paid to the ongoing human rights crisis in West Papua. #ACPSummit2019 #ACP79 #FreeWestPapua
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Benny Wenda
5 years
Today I was interviewed live by @abcnews on submitting the #WestPapuan people's #petition to the #UnitedNations , which was hand-signed by 1.8 million #WestPapuans . The time has come to #LetWestPapuaVote ! #SelfDetermination . #FreeWestPapua #WestPapua #HumanRights #ULMWP
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Indonesia cannot be MSG members while killing and discriminating against Melanesians. Their membership must be suspended until they cooperate with the MSG and allow a UN visit.
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