Tag: Benny Wenda
Rival OPM leaders dispute Papuan ‘independence’ declaration
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A renewed declaration of independence by an exiled West Papuan leader has stirred a negative response from other Papuan independence fighters...
West Papuan leaders declare first steps for world’s first ‘green state’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
West Papuan leaders have begun forming a "provisional government" in defiance of a crackdown by Indonesian security forces and have pledged...
Wenda accuses Indonesian special forces over Papua ‘hunting ground’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Indonesian special forces are turning West Papua into "more of a hunting ground", warns an exiled Papuan leader in response to...
West Papuans will not ‘bow down’ to Indonesia over independence wish
By RNZ Pacific
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua says it is adopting a provisional constitution for a democratic state.
The organisation is seeking a...
Southern Cross: Uproar over ABS-CBN denial of TV licence by government
Pacific Media Watch
Host Oscar Perress talked to contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Sri Krishnamurthi today about Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's government rejecting a...
Benny Wenda: A referendum, not ‘autonomy’, only West Papua solution
COMMENT: By Benny Wenda, chair of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua
For over 50 years, Indonesia has been promising West Papua "autonomy". Each...
Indonesia furious over Oxford award for Benny Wenda
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Indonesian government is furious over the Oxford City Council’s decision to award West Papuan activist Benny Wenda the Honorary Freedom...
West Papua’s Benny Wenda to be awarded Oxford’s highest honour
By Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Oxford City Council is to award West Papuan activist Benny Wenda the Honorary Freedom of the City accolade for...
West Papuans call for mass boycott of Indonesian elections
By Tom Stayner of SBS News
A West Papuan independence leader and Nobel peace prize nominee is calling for a mass boycott of Indonesia’s upcoming...
Violence in Papua must end before talks, says NZ Foreign Minister
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand's Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, has called for an end to violence in Indonesia's Papua province.
Peters was responding to a letter...
Benny Wenda: West Papuan people’s ballot petition handed over to UN
By Benny Wenda, chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua
As chairman of The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), I have...
Traumatised Papuan villagers flee Indonesian military in Nduga
By RNZ Pacific
Thousands of West Papuan villagers have reportedly fled from their homes in a remote regency due to conflict between Indonesian military forces...
West Papua one step closer to MSG membership, says Wenda
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says the Melanesian Spearhead Group has made solid progress under the chairmanship of Solomon Islands. Video: EMTV...
Indonesian crackdown on peaceful West Papuan UN vote petition signers
Yanto Awerkion, a West Papuan local independence leader, remains imprisoned after being arrested the Indonesian security services for collecting signatures on an Avaaz petition...
Benny Wenda accuses Indonesian police of torturing Papuan official
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Police in Indonesia are facing allegations of torture from West Papuan independence leaders after a prominent human rights commissioner was...
New Zealand support for West Papua grows after ‘historic declaration’ signed
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Political support in New Zealand for an independent West Papua is growing after a “historic declaration” was signed during free...
Southern Cross: PNG election security, Fiji coups, Manus Island shooting, and...
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie speaks to Radio 95bFM's The Wire host Amanda Jane Robinson about security operations...
‘We’ll not be safe with Indonesia,’ says West Papua’s Benny Wenda
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
A lifelong campaigner for a free and independent West Papua has issued a stark warning to New Zealand politicians as...
Indigenous West Papuans send solidarity to Standing Rock
A previous activist video on West Papua Independence Day. Video: Free West Papua
Indigenous groups from around Oceania have sent their support to the ongoing...
West Papuan documentary screened in UK cinemas
Two screenings of the award-winning documentary The Road to Home, which follows the life of West Papuan independence leader and lawyer Benny Wenda and...
Benny Wenda’s planned visit to New Zealand now on hold
Trailer for the award-winning documentary The Road To Home about Benny Wenda, the Nobel Peace Prize nominated West Papuan independence leader, in his ongoing...
Benny Wenda documentary to screen on TV Down Under
The Road to Home, an award-winning feature length documentary about British-based West Papuan human rights campaigner Benny Wenda will be screening on Australian television from...