UN Special Committee on Decolonization should visit West Papua
The Special Committee on Decolonization will hold its Pacific Regional Seminar in Nadi, Fiji, from 21 to 23 May 2014.
Joe
Collins of AWPA said " We are calling on the Committee to visit West
Papua on a fact finding mission to investigate how the West Papuan
people have fared under Indonesian rule. The Special Committee’s visited
New Caledonia in March 2014,and we believe the UN should now visit
West Papua. It is an accepted fact that the so called act of free
choice in 1969 was a farce and the UN has a moral responsibility to the
West Papuan for that tragic event, the betrayal of a people back in
1963".
All
the UN has to do to see the failure of Jakarta to win over the West
Papuan people is to look at the banners the West Papuan people are still
carrying in rallies in West Papua 51 years later. They state
"Let us Freedom"
"We want a referendum"
"Indonesia is illegal in West Papua" etc.
Joe Collins
said "it is definitely time for the UN to revisit the whole question
of the handover of West Papua to Indonesia 51 years ago.
One of the many rallies that took place in 2012. Photo in TEMPO
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