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August 16, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Today — 15 August 15 1962 — marks “a day of betrayal for us West Papuans”, says a Papuan leader as critics reminded the world about what happened 59 years ago. “This is the day a secret deal was done between the United States, Indonesia and the Netherlands, deciding our future ... <a title="‘A day of betrayal’, says Wenda about 1962 secret pact over West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/16/a-day-of-betrayal-says-wenda-about-1962-secret-pact-over-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A day of betrayal’, says Wenda about 1962 secret pact over West Papua">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The Civil Society Alliance — which is made up of a number of organisations in Indonesia and Timor-Leste — is urging President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to revoke the Bintang Jasa Utama (1st Class Star of Service) award for “civil bravery and courage” in times of adversity which was given to former ... <a title="Rights groups urge Jokowi to revoke ‘betrayal’ medal for Timorese war criminal Eurico Guterres" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/14/rights-groups-urge-jokowi-to-revoke-betrayal-medal-for-timorese-war-criminal-eurico-guterres/" aria-label="Read more about Rights groups urge Jokowi to revoke ‘betrayal’ medal for Timorese war criminal Eurico Guterres">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In our age of unnuanced media reporting, cynicism, and political correctness, words and meanings are subject – perhaps increasingly – to an effective process of cancellation. It’s not a new process, in the past certain words might be replaced by others – eg ‘race’ replaced by ‘ethnicity’, ‘illegitimate’ replaced by ‘ex-nuptial’, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Loss of Language, and the Future of Science" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/13/keith-rankin-essay-loss-of-language-and-the-future-of-science/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Loss of Language, and the Future of Science">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. We have this pretty fiction that the world is made up of approximately 200 politically autonomous nation-states. This in the entrenched ‘Wilsonian’ view of the political world that, in particular, was sort-of realised after World War One; a view that rendered the national empires (such as the British Empire) of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Fundamentalism in our Post-Globalisation Era" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/03/keith-rankin-essay-territorial-fundamentalism-in-our-post-globalisation-era/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Fundamentalism in our Post-Globalisation Era">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The co-leader of New Zealand’s minority Māori Party has launched a blistering attack on white privilege and the opposition National Party which it accuses of “igniting racism” in the framing of a debate about radical political change. In a provocative introduction to her weekly column in The New Zealand Herald today, ... <a title="Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white privilege" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/maori-party-calls-for-indigenous-debate-to-address-nz-racism-white-privilege/" aria-label="Read more about Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white privilege">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A pro-independence movement in West Papua has appealed to several Western countries — including New Zealand — to provide urgent humanitarian help by supplying covid vaccines directly to the Papuans to cope with the “double crisis” in the Indonesian-ruled region. Benny Wenda, interim president of the Provisional Government of West Papua, ... <a title="Wenda appeals to NZ, West to supply covid vaccines direct to Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/wenda-appeals-to-nz-west-to-supply-covid-vaccines-direct-to-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda appeals to NZ, West to supply covid vaccines direct to Papuans">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk On 10 July 1985 the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk at an Auckland wharf. Two French secret agents planted two limpet mines on the ship while it was berthed at Marsden wharf. The second explosion killed Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira when he got trapped on board while retrieving his cameras. ... <a title="Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/case-017-rnz-podcast-the-bombing-of-the-rainbow-warrior/" aria-label="Read more about Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Hele Christopher-Ikimotu I am Banaban. I come from an ancestry of survivors and a once rich land. However, Banaba died to make other nations live. The Banabans though are proud survivors and we maintain that we are a race that still lives. Google will tell you my ancestral home of Banaba is ... <a title="Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/banaba-island-the-land-that-died-so-others-could-live/" aria-label="Read more about Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
RNZ Pacific More than 2000 demonstrators in French Polynesia have joined a march in the capital Pape’ete to mark the 55th anniversary of the first French nuclear weapons test in the Pacific. The rally was attended by the pro-independence opposition, veterans groups and the Māohi Protestant Church — some carrying banners declaring a “crime against ... <a title="Tahiti protest rally marks France’s ‘crime against humanity’ first atomic test in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/tahiti-protest-rally-marks-frances-crime-against-humanity-first-atomic-test-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti protest rally marks France’s ‘crime against humanity’ first atomic test in Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala On 27 May 2021, a significant event took place in Rwanda where French President Emmanuel Macron asked for forgiveness from the people of Rwanda after admitting for the first time that France bore a “terrible responsibility” for the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the 1994 genocide. ... <a title="Mā’ohi Nui’s search for nuclear justice – the French ‘reset’ button still to be reset" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/03/maohi-nuis-search-for-nuclear-justice-the-french-reset-button-still-to-be-reset/" aria-label="Read more about Mā’ohi Nui’s search for nuclear justice – the French ‘reset’ button still to be reset">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya in Brisbane When I ring home to West Papua, my village people often ask me about the rumours that they have heard, of an upcoming Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) meeting. They ask, “When is the MSG meeting?” and if West Papua will be accepted as a full member. I tell them ... <a title="West Papua unhappy over never-ending MSG membership tragedies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/22/west-papua-unhappy-over-never-ending-msg-membership-tragedies/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua unhappy over never-ending MSG membership tragedies">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Retired politics professor and historian Robert “Robbie” Robertson, 69, co-author of the book Shattered Coups about the 1987 coups led by then Lieutenant-Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, has died in Melbourne, his family has confirmed. Dr Robertson wrote the book with his partner Akosita Tamanisau, then a Fiji journalist. It was published in ... <a title="Former USP academic and author of Fiji coup books Robbie Robertson dies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/11/former-usp-academic-and-author-of-fiji-coup-books-robbie-robertson-dies/" aria-label="Read more about Former USP academic and author of Fiji coup books Robbie Robertson dies">Read more</a>
