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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
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NCD Governor Powes Parkop with a West Papua flag
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Pro-independence advocates urge MSG to elevate West Papua membership

A child victim of the Indonesian military raids in Sugapa district
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West Papuan villagers fleeing fighting between the Indonesian military and pro-independence militants to Sugapa, the capital of Intan Jaya regency
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Human Rights Watch warns renewed fighting threatens West Papua civilians

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Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) Mobile Yonif 1 Marine Task Force for Indonesian-PNG Border Security soldiers
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Indonesian military operations spark concerns over displaced indigenous Papuans

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The NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji
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Indigenous Papuans in Merauke district protest to protect their customary lands
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Images have been circulating on social media of Indonesian rockets that have been reportedly fired on villages
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AWPA calls on Albanese to raise West Papuan human rights with...

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West Papuan resistance fighters
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) with President Prabowo Subianto at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, in April 2025
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Indonesia’s Pacific manoeuvres – money, military and silencing West Papua

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South Vietnamese torture "tiger cages" against the Viet Cong at the War Remnants Museum on Ho Chi Minh City
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Auckland University PhD candidate Veronika Kanem
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Participants at a Pacific Islands Festival in Europe show their support for the Free West Papua campaign
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Indonesian police arrest the "Sentani 12" activists
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West Papua liberation group demands Indonesia releases 12 arrested activists

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The aftermath of Indonesian forces burning temporary shelters in the Star Mountains, West Papua
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West Papua independence activists
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Indonesia’s amnesty plan for West Papua independence fighters greeted with scepticism

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The Frontier War documentary
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Wenda calls for international inquiry into film claim that Indonesia is...

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And now there are 10 in BRICS, the alternative to the G7 bloc
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Indonesia joins BRICS: What now for West Papuan goal of independence?

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Displaced Oksop villagers in West Papua
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‘Ghost of Suharto’ marks Prabowo’s new phase in West Papua occupation

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Palestine - "a moral litmus test for the world"
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The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognises the right of Indigenous peoples to self-determination
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Te Tiriti: The history and implications of the Treaty Principles Bill

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ULMWP's Benny Wenda
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West Papuan leader praises People’s Tribunal ruling as proof of ‘need...

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Fiji protesters supporting decolonisation of West Papua, Kanaky - and Palestine
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