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November 16, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan advocacy group for self-determination for the colonised Melanesians has appealed to the United Kingdom government to cancel its planned reception for new Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto. “Prabowo is a blood-stained war criminal who is complicit in genocide in East Timor and West Papua,” claimed an exiled leader of the United ... <a title="Plea to bar Prabowo from UK as Indonesian security forces crack down on Papuan rally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/16/plea-to-bar-prabowo-from-uk-as-indonesian-security-forces-crack-down-on-papuan-rally/" aria-label="Read more about Plea to bar Prabowo from UK as Indonesian security forces crack down on Papuan rally">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
By Lice Movono and Stephen Dziedzic of ABC Pacific Beat Fiji’s Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, says he will “apologise” to fellow Melanesian leaders later this month after failing to secure agreement from Indonesia to visit its restive West Papua province. At last year’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders meeting in Cook Islands, the Melanesian Spearhead ... <a title="Fiji’s Rabuka ‘will apologise’ to Melanesian leaders over failure to visit West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/fijis-rabuka-will-apologise-to-melanesian-leaders-over-failure-to-visit-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Rabuka ‘will apologise’ to Melanesian leaders over failure to visit West Papua">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2024
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute’s silence to mark the “blood debt” owed to Papuan allies during the Second World War indigenous resistance against the invading Japanese forces. “A promise to most people is a promise,” Aubrey said in his open letter marking the ... <a title="Australian author leads silence protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/27/australian-author-leads-silence-protest-over-blood-debt-owed-to-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Australian author leads silence protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2024
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute’s silence to mark the “blood debt” owed to Papuan allies during the Second World War indigenous resistance against the invading Japanese forces. “A promise to most people is a promise,” Aubrey said in his open letter marking the ... <a title="Australian author leads silent protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/21/australian-author-leads-silent-protest-over-blood-debt-owed-to-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Australian author leads silent protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
RNZ Pacific With Indonesia preparing for elections next week, Human Rights Watch has sought answers from the three groups vying for the presidency on how they would resolve human rights violations. Two of the three Indonesian presidential and vice-presidential candidates responded to a questionnaire on key human rights issues. The presidential candidates Anies Baswedan and ... <a title="Indonesian presidential hopefuls explain their West Papua policies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/indonesian-presidential-hopefuls-explain-their-west-papua-policies/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian presidential hopefuls explain their West Papua policies">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The leader of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) has called for the establishment of a “United Indigenous Nations” for global justice and an end to Indonesia’s ‘malignant’ colonisation of West Papua. Today — August 9 — is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, as declared at the inaugural UN Working ... <a title="OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan colonisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/opm-leader-calls-for-world-indigenous-un-end-to-papuan-colonisation/" aria-label="Read more about OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan colonisation">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2023
The Paradise Bombed documentary about West Papua by Kristo Langker. Asia Pacific Report A new documentary and human rights report have documented savage attacks in 2021 by Indonesian security forces on a remote West Papuan village close to the Papua New Guinea border as part of an ongoing crackdown against growing calls for independence. The ... <a title="New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/05/new-documentary-human-rights-report-allege-indonesian-atrocities-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2022
OBITUARY: By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta Filep Karma, a prominent Papuan activist and former political prisoner, was found dead yesterday on a beach in the Papuan city of Jayapura. He had been on a diving trip with his brother-in-law and nephew, and apparently went diving alone after his relatives left the trip early. Karma, 63, ... <a title="Filep Karma: A Papuan human rights hero and huge loss to the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/02/filep-karma-a-papuan-human-rights-hero-and-huge-loss-to-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Filep Karma: A Papuan human rights hero and huge loss to the Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2022
By Victor Mambor and Alvin Prasetyo in Jayapura The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is warning in a new report that mass killings of civilians could occur in Indonesia’s troubled West Papua region in the next year to 18 months if current conditions deteriorate to a worst-case scenario. Although large-scale violence against civilians is not occurring ... <a title="Researchers warn of growing potential for mass killings in Papua region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/23/researchers-warn-of-growing-potential-for-mass-killings-in-papua-region/" aria-label="Read more about Researchers warn of growing potential for mass killings in Papua region">Read more</a>
