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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 24, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of “six decades of treachery” over Papuan independence. The open letter was released today by OPM chairman Jeffrey P Bomanak on the eve of ANZAC Day 2024. Praising the courage and ... <a title="OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/opm-leaders-open-letter-condemns-australias-treachery-over-papua/" aria-label="Read more about OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua">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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April 18, 2024
I came to this evening of short films not sure what to expect. I have a history with West Papua (here referring to the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea, which comprises five provinces, one named “West Papua”) from my days fronting the legendary West Papuan band Black Brothers in the early 1990s. ... <a title="A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest songs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/18/a-montage-of-west-papuan-everyday-life-from-hip-hop-to-protest-songs/" aria-label="Read more about A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest songs">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2024
RNZ Pacific More videos appear to have been released by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) showing New Zealand hostage Phillip Mehrtens. The New Zealander was taken hostage more than a year ago on February 7 in Paro in the highlands of the Indonesian-ruled region of West Papua while providing vital air links and ... <a title="More videos of Kiwi hostage in Papua – warning over Indonesian air strikes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/13/more-videos-of-kiwi-hostage-in-papua-warning-over-indonesian-air-strikes/" aria-label="Read more about More videos of Kiwi hostage in Papua – warning over Indonesian air strikes">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2024
By Sharon Muller of Arah Juang On Friday, March 22, a video circulated of TNI (Indonesian military) soldiers torturing a civilian in Papua. In the video, the victim is submerged in a drum filled with water with his hands tied behind his back. The victim was alternately beaten and kicked by the TNI members. The ... <a title="Indonesian military’s crimes in West Papua and the democratic solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/13/indonesian-militarys-crimes-in-west-papua-and-the-democratic-solution/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military’s crimes in West Papua and the democratic solution">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Fresh clashes in New Caledonia have erupted in the suburbs of Nouméa between security forces and pro-independence protesters who oppose a nickel pact offering French assistance to salvage the industry. The clashes, involving firearms, teargas and stone-throwing, went on for most of yesterday, blocking access roads ... <a title="Violent clashes in New Caledonia as tensions rise over nickel pact" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/10/violent-clashes-in-new-caledonia-as-tensions-rise-over-nickel-pact/" aria-label="Read more about Violent clashes in New Caledonia as tensions rise over nickel pact">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
By Doddy Morris of the Vanuatu Daily Post It has been 60 years since Indonesia has been refused humanitarian agencies and international media access to enter West Papua, says a leading West Papuan leader and advocate. According to Benny Wenda, president of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), Indonesia is “comparable to North ... <a title="Wenda challenges Indonesia’s ‘Papua never colonised’ claim as false" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/wenda-challenges-indonesias-papua-never-colonised-claim-as-false/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda challenges Indonesia’s ‘Papua never colonised’ claim as false">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2024
PNG Post-Courier The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) has declared its solidarity with civil society groups and student protesters demonstrating against the torture of a Papuan man, Defianus Kogoya, by Indonesian troops in West Papua last February. The torture was revealed in a video that went viral across the world last month. PANG said in ... <a title="Let in UN human rights mission to West Papua – stop Indonesian impunity, says PANG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/06/let-in-un-human-rights-mission-to-west-papua-stop-indonesian-impunity-says-pang/" aria-label="Read more about Let in UN human rights mission to West Papua – stop Indonesian impunity, says PANG">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Indonesia’s military regional command in Papua has denied claims made by a pro-independence West Papuan group that abducted New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens more than a year ago that the army had staged a bombing attack, The Jakarta Post reports. Responding to a claim by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) ... <a title="Indonesian military deny bombing Papua district in bid to free NZ pilot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/02/indonesian-military-deny-bombing-papua-district-in-bid-to-free-nz-pilot/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military deny bombing Papua district in bid to free NZ pilot">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>
