https://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/06/17/jayapura-police-arrest-1004-papuan-activists-claims-knpb/ Independent Asia Pacific news and analysis Sun, 19 Jun 2016 03:32:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/06/17/jayapura-police-arrest-1004-papuan-activists-claims-knpb/#comment-2006 Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:12:24 +0000 http://asiapacificreport.nz/?p=14606#comment-2006 […] Quote from West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda: “West Papuan people continue to be arrested, continue to be tortured and continued to be murdered by the Indonesian military and police. The world needs to see this truly desperate situation in occupied West Papua. West Papua is a militarised emergency zone with more and more Indonesian soldiers coming and killing innocent people. The biggest human rights disaster in the Pacific is happening today just 250km north of Australia and we West Papuans are worried that if this genocide and illegal occupation continues to be ignored, in the next few decades we will be completely wiped out from our own country.” Read Benny’s full plea on Asia Pacific Report. Read on in Asia Pacific Report: […]

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