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April 4, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, describing it as “lopsided” in favour of Tel Aviv. He said New Zealand media was too dependent on American and British news services, which were based in two of the countries ... <a title="APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over the war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/04/apr-editor-criticises-nz-media-coverage-over-the-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over the war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2024
ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report On my office wall hangs a framed portrait of Shireen Abu Akleh, the inspiring and celebrated American-Palestinian journalist known across the Middle East to watchers of Al Jazeera Arabic, who was assassinated by an Israeli military sniper with impunity. State murder. She was gunned down in ... <a title="From Gaza to West Papua, the long struggle for justice and freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/02/from-gaza-to-west-papua-the-long-struggle-for-justice-and-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about From Gaza to West Papua, the long struggle for justice and freedom">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2024
OPEN LETTER: To Australia’s Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong Dear Foreign Minister, I am writing to you on behalf of the Australia West Papua Association in Sydney concerning the brutal torture of a West Papuan man, Defianus Kogoya by Indonesian troops in West Papua in early February. Anybody watching the video footage of the Papuan ... <a title="Open letter: AWPA calls on Wong to protest to Jakarta over brutal torture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/01/open-letter-awpa-calls-on-wong-to-protest-to-jakarta-over-brutal-torture/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter: AWPA calls on Wong to protest to Jakarta over brutal torture">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand charity providing humanitarian aid for Gaza today revealed more details of the international Freedom Flotilla’s bid to break the Israeli siege of the enclave as mass starvation looms closer. Latest reports say 27 children have died from malnutrition so far and the death toll is expected to rise in ... <a title="Kia Ora Gaza reveals more on Freedom Flotilla plans to break Gaza siege" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/01/kia-ora-gaza-reveals-more-on-freedom-flotilla-plans-to-break-gaza-siege/" aria-label="Read more about Kia Ora Gaza reveals more on Freedom Flotilla plans to break Gaza siege">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2024
EDITORIAL: By Pip Hinman and Susan Price Meta, the giant social media corporation, has “unpublished” Green Left’s longstanding Facebook page, which had tens of thousands of followers. We had been regularly posting stories, videos and photographs on the page from our consistent reporting of the news and views that seldom get into the mainstream media. ... <a title="Green Left fights another Facebook ban without warning over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/30/green-left-fights-another-facebook-ban-without-warning-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Green Left fights another Facebook ban without warning over Gaza">Read more</a>
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March 29, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Ronny Kareni Since the atrocious footage of the suffering of an indigenous Papuan man reverberates in the heart of Puncak by the brute force of Indonesia’s army in early February, shocking tactics deployed by those in power to silence critics has been unfolding. Nowhere is this more evident than in the plight of ... <a title="Indonesian military apologies fail to mask the harassment, gagging of Papuan leaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/29/indonesian-military-apologies-fail-to-mask-the-harassment-gagging-of-papuan-leaders/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military apologies fail to mask the harassment, gagging of Papuan leaders">Read more</a>
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March 29, 2024
By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter A petition urging the New Zealand government to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people has been tabled in the House. More than 200 people gathered on Parliament’s forecourt today and they were met by MPs from Labour, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori. Member of the ... <a title="16,000 sign NZ petition urging more support for Gaza – tabled in House" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/29/16000-sign-nz-petition-urging-more-support-for-gaza-tabled-in-house/" aria-label="Read more about 16,000 sign NZ petition urging more support for Gaza – tabled in House">Read more</a>
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March 29, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog RSF (Reporters Without Borders) has appealed for information about the “disappearance” of Palestinian journalist Bayan Abusultan. She was reportedly last seen on March 19 among people “sequestered” in this week’s raid and siege of Al Shifa hospital by Israeli troops in northern Gaza. RSF has demanded ... <a title="RSF concern over whereabouts of Gazan journalist in Al Shifa hospital siege" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/29/rsf-concern-over-whereabouts-of-gazan-journalist-in-al-shifa-hospital-siege/" aria-label="Read more about RSF concern over whereabouts of Gazan journalist in Al Shifa hospital siege">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
EDITORIAL: The Jakarta Post It happens again and again; indigenous Papuans fall victim to Indonesian soldiers. This time, we have photographic evidence for the brutality, with videos on social media showing a Papuan man being tortured by a group of plainclothes men alleged to be the Indonesian Military (TNI) members. One clip shows the man’s ... <a title="The Jakarta Post: Stop fighting fire with fire in Papua – it only leads to a bigger fire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/the-jakarta-post-stop-fighting-fire-with-fire-in-papua-it-only-leads-to-a-bigger-fire/" aria-label="Read more about The Jakarta Post: Stop fighting fire with fire in Papua – it only leads to a bigger fire">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
COMMENTARY: Jewish Voice for Peace The UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on Monday — and for the first time since the beginning of the Israeli military’s genocide of Palestinians, the United States abstained rather than vetoing it. Security Council resolutions are legally binding, despite the Biden administration claiming ... <a title="Palestine solidarity must keep up pressure as Israel defies Gaza ceasefire order" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/palestine-solidarity-must-keep-up-pressure-as-israel-defies-gaza-ceasefire-order/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine solidarity must keep up pressure as Israel defies Gaza ceasefire order">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2024
Jubi/West Papua Daily Repeated cases of Indonesian military (TNI) soldiers torturing civilians in Papua have been evident, as seen in the viral video depicting the torture of civilians in the Puncak Regency allegedly done by soldiers of Raider 300/Brajawijaya Infantry Battalion. There is a pressing need for stringent law enforcement and the evaluation of the ... <a title="Indonesian military impunity, poor training condemned over torture of Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/27/indonesian-military-impunity-poor-training-condemned-over-torture-of-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military impunity, poor training condemned over torture of Papuans">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2024
DEMOCRACY NOW! Presented by Amy Goodman AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! — The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We turn to Gaza, where aid groups say famine is imminent after five months of US-backed attacks by Israel. This is in spite of the historic UN Security Council resolution yesterday demanding an immediate ... <a title="As Israel blocks more UN aid, Gaza is on the brink of ‘most intense famine’ since WW2" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/26/as-israel-blocks-more-un-aid-gaza-is-on-the-brink-of-most-intense-famine-since-ww2/" aria-label="Read more about As Israel blocks more UN aid, Gaza is on the brink of ‘most intense famine’ since WW2">Read more</a>
