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March 10, 2026
REVIEW: By Lee Duffield Declining population in West Papua, and critical loss of life through clashes with the Indonesia military raise the question of genocide in a new book by Brisbane writer Dr Greg Poulgrain. This work, Curse of Gold, published in English by Kompas, as the title indicates traces the roots of subjugation going ... <a title="Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/10/taking-the-wealth-the-plunder-and-impoverishment-of-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Paul Gregoire United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) provisional government interim president Benny Wenda has warned that since Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto took office in October, he has been proven right in having remarked, after the politician’s last February election, that his coming marks the return of “the ghost of Suharto” ... <a title="‘Ghost of Suharto’ marks Prabowo’s new phase in West Papua occupation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/ghost-of-suharto-marks-prabowos-new-phase-in-west-papua-occupation/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Ghost of Suharto’ marks Prabowo’s new phase in West Papua occupation">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
RNZ Pacific Indonesian President Joko Widodo has acknowledged “gross human rights violations” in his country’s history and vowed to prevent any repeat. He cited 12 “regrettable” events, including an anti-communist purge at the height of the Cold War. By some estimates, the massacres killed about 500,000 people. President Joko Widodo … “I strongly regret that ... <a title="Jokowi acknowledges gross human rights violations in Indonesia, Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/jokowi-acknowledges-gross-human-rights-violations-in-indonesia-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Jokowi acknowledges gross human rights violations in Indonesia, Papua">Read more</a>
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December 20, 2022
RNZ Pacific A West Papua rights group claims Indonesian police and soldiers have carried out at least 72 extrajudicial killings over the past year. The report by the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) said the police were responsible for 50 of the unlawful killings, with the remainder committed by military personnel. ... <a title="Rights group says security forces unlawfully killed 72 Papuans in past year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/20/rights-group-says-security-forces-unlawfully-killed-72-papuans-in-past-year/" aria-label="Read more about Rights group says security forces unlawfully killed 72 Papuans in past year">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk British and Indonesian human rights defender Carmel Budiardjo, founder of TAPOL watchdog and the movement’s driving force for many decades, has died peacefully aged 96. TAPOL said in an announcement that she had died on Saturday and would greatly missed by an extensive network of people whose lives had been “touched ... <a title="Papuan and human rights defender Carmel Budiardjo dies at 96" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/papuan-and-human-rights-defender-carmel-budiardjo-dies-at-96/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan and human rights defender Carmel Budiardjo dies at 96">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Pro self-proclaimed “interim president” Guaido “Trumpeters” at a rally in Caracas. Image: TeleSUR By Max Lane IT IS necessary to understand that the conflict in Venezuela manifests a war between classes, not between factions of the one class, as in elections in “normal” bourgeois democracies.. The ... <a title="Venezuela under siege – some class reflections from Max Lane" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/venezuela-under-siege-some-class-reflections-from-max-lane/" aria-label="Read more about Venezuela under siege – some class reflections from Max Lane">Read more</a>
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