[Imc-oceania] Fw: [www-features] Proposed: Repression of West Papua Activists

[takver]

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Takver
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Feature proposal:
Repression of West Papua Activists

<a href="http://oceania.indymedia.org">Oceania</a>: West Papua 
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<a href="http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/07/18433905.php">Eight
arrested at Tribal Congress</a> as West Papuans continue to assert their
cause of independence from Indonesia and protest the invasion and
colonisation of Papua by Indonesia resulting in the sham "<a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Free_Choice">Act of Free
Choice in 1969</a>". 
<p>
U.S Congressman Eni Faleomavega, from American Samoa, was banned by
Indonesian Authorities from visiting West Papua and attending the Tribal
Congress. In Yogyakarta the Indonesian police, military and local
government have teamed up with Islamic militias and hardline nationalist
groups to <a
href="http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=100765">crack
down on West Papuan activists</a>. Forty-five student leaders in
Yogyakarta have fled their dormitories, left their studies and gone into
hiding following statements issued by hardline Islamic and nationalist
organisations. (<a
href="http://jakarta.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=1477">Report -
Jakarta IMC (id)</a>)</p>
<p>
This repression comes after a damning report by Human Rights Watch
accusing <a href="http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/51330">Indonesian
police of Endemic Abuse and Violence</a> in West Papua.</a>
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<a href="http://sydney.indymedia.org.au">Sydney IMC</a> | 
<a href="http://perth.indymedia.org">Perth IMC</a> | 
<a href="http://jakarta.indymedia.org">Jakarta IMC</a><br>
<a href="http://www.infopapua.org/">West Papua News</a> | 
<a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cline/papua/">West Papua
Information Kit</a>


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in solidarity
Takver
Oceania Indymedia activist

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