| WP Entkolonialisierungsausschuss gegründet |
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| Geschrieben von fPcN/FdN | |
| Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2011 | |
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Die nationale Koalition für die Befreiung West Papuas hat die Gründung eines West Papua Entkolonialisierungsausschusses angekündigt. Die Koalition sagt, dass der Ausschuss dem Entkolonialisierung-Ausschuss der Vereinten Nationen die Wiederaufnahme von West Papua in das UN Programm zur Entkolonialisierung vorschlagen werde damit ein ordnungsgemäßer Prozess zur Entkolonialisierung beschritten werden kann. Mitglieder des Ausschusses werden Führer der Koalition sowie Würdenträger aus Vanuatu sein, darunter der ehemalige Präsident und der Premierminister. Die Mitgliedschaft ist ebenso offen für Personen aus anderen Ländern mit einschlägigem Fachwissen. Der Vizepräsident der Koalition, John Ondawame, sagte, dass die Einrichtung des Ausschusses eine Reaktion auf die anhaltende Gewalt von indonesischen Truppen in West Papua ist. Die Gewalt habe sich trotz jahrelanger Bitten der Papuas für einen friedlichen Dialog fortgesetzt. John Ondawame ruft die Menschen des Pazifiks und die internationale Gemeinschaft auf, die diplomatischen Bemühungen zu unterstützen. Heralding an End to Indonesia’s War of Occupation One day an Australian Prime Minister may find the courage and resolve to fly to Washington and address the Congress and the President and inform them that we no longer agree with their policy on West Papua, that they are plain wrong to facilitate and support the ongoing Indonesian colonial occupation of western New Guinea, that the Papuan people of this territory deserve to be granted the free and fair vote that was stolen from them in the fraudulent plebiscite held in July 1969. If an Australian Prime Minister were to make such a stand, other world leaders may also awaken to this most basic abuse of natural justice that is the Indonesian colonial occupation of half of New Guinea, as they are sick and tired of receiving reports of the slow-motion genocide moving through the island of New Guinea. If the leaders of the free world were to stand and demand the delivery of basic justice to the western Papuans, then Indonesia would be obliged to respond, or face the wrath of a world determined to deliver justice to the Papuans of Indonesian occupied New Guinea. Only when our leaders step out of the shadows and hold forth the truth about western New Guinea, might reporters and human rights workers be allowed entry to observe the situation on the ground, where endless reports seep out through the bamboo curtain of human rights abuses in a never-ending war by Indonesia to crush all desire for freedom in the hearts of the West Papuan people. Until that day of truth arrives and we end our shameful silence, we can but hang our heads in shame that we have allowed the unspeakable to happen under our noses, as we train the Indonesian perpetrators in the arts of war and call them friends. When the day of West Papuan self-determination arrives, we may stop seeing the torture videos taken by Indonesian soldiers, or hearing reports of the many more instances of torture, murder, beatings, rapes and destruction of property, or see film footage of Indonesian forces attacking peaceful gatherings of Papuans as if they are at war. If we are unable to value the freedom and liberty of the western Papuans, just across Australia’s northern border, how will we ever know to value our own liberty and hold our heads high as a free and independent people? NOTE: Between 1957 and 1962 Australia was officially working with the Dutch Government to prepare the western Papuans for independence, when many Australians were on the ground working beside the Dutch to prepare the Papuans for liberty (CURRENT NOTES ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, Department of External Affairs, Canberra, November 1957, p.882). In those years Australia and the Netherlands were working toward the independence of the whole island of New Guinea, which could have become one very large and wealthy independent nation. By Kim Peart (Tasmanian Times) |
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