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August 14, 2024
Environmental destruction is not an unintended side effect, but a primary objective in colonial wars of occupation. By David Whyte and Samira Homerang Saunders Many in the international community are finally coming to accept that the earth’s ecosystem can no longer bear the weight of military occupation. Most have reached this inevitable conclusion, clearly articulated in the ... <a title="From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate catastrophe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/from-papua-to-gaza-military-occupation-leads-to-ecocide-climate-catastrophe/" aria-label="Read more about From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate catastrophe">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura and Pizaro Gozali Idrus in Jakarta Indonesian human rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the death of a New Zealand helicopter pilot in a remote part of Papua province earlier this week. The pilot, identified as Glen Malcolm Conning, was reportedly killed by an armed group shortly ... <a title="Indonesian human rights groups seek independent probe of NZ pilot’s death in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/indonesian-human-rights-groups-seek-independent-probe-of-nz-pilots-death-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian human rights groups seek independent probe of NZ pilot’s death in Papua">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance movement OPM has blamed the tragic death of a New Zealand helicopter pilot in a remote part of the troubled Melanesian region on Indonesia’s security forces and “every nation supporting barbarity”. In a statement today, the OPM (Free Papua Organisation) chairman-commander Jeffrey Bomanak claimed his movement had undertaken ... <a title="OPM blames Indonesia over tragic death of NZ helicopter pilot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/07/opm-blames-indonesia-over-tragic-death-of-nz-helicopter-pilot/" aria-label="Read more about OPM blames Indonesia over tragic death of NZ helicopter pilot">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
By Stefan Armbruster, Harlyne Joku and Tria Dianti No progress has been made in sending a UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces despite the appointment of Fiji and Papua New Guinea’s prime ministers to negotiate the visit. Pacific Island leaders have for more than a decade requested the UN’s involvement over reported abuses ... <a title="Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/fiji-png-fail-to-secure-un-human-rights-mission-to-indonesias-papuan-provinces/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A brutal killing of three Papuan civilians in Puncak Jaya reveals that occupied West Papua is a ticking time bomb under Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto, claims the leader of an advocacy group. And United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Benny Wenda says the Melanesian region risks becoming “another East Timor”. The ... <a title="Latest Puncak Jaya massacre reveals West Papua ‘is a time bomb’, claims Benny Wenda" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/21/latest-puncak-jaya-massacre-reveals-west-papua-is-a-time-bomb-claims-benny-wenda/" aria-label="Read more about Latest Puncak Jaya massacre reveals West Papua ‘is a time bomb’, claims Benny Wenda">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2024
By Pita Ligaiula in Tokyo The Pacific Islands Forum hopes to send a high-level delegation to Kanaky New Caledonia to investigate the current political crisis in the French territory before the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting in Tonga in August. According to Pacnews, Forum Chair and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown confirmed this during ... <a title="PIF hopes to send delegation to New Caledonia, says Forum chair" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/20/pif-hopes-to-send-delegation-to-new-caledonia-says-forum-chair/" aria-label="Read more about PIF hopes to send delegation to New Caledonia, says Forum chair">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
PANG Media The PANG media team at this month’s Pacific International Media Conference in Fiji caught up with independent journalist, author and educator Dr David Robie and questioned him on his views about decolonisation in the Pacific. Dr Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report and deputy chair of Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN), a co-organiser ... <a title="PANG talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/pang-talks-to-journalist-david-robie-on-pacific-decolonisation-issues/" aria-label="Read more about PANG talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Many platitudes about media freedom and democracy laced last week’s Pacific International Media Conference in the Fijian capital of Suva. There was a mood of euphoria at the impressive event, especially from politicians who talked about journalism being the “oxygen of democracy”. The dumping of the draconian and widely hated Fiji Media ... <a title="When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and hypocrisy share the same Pacific arena" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/when-media-freedom-as-the-oxygen-of-democracy-and-hypocrisy-share-the-same-pacific-arena/" aria-label="Read more about When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and hypocrisy share the same Pacific arena">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
PMN Pacific Mornings A major conference on the state and future of Pacific media is taking place this week in Fiji. Dr David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report and deputy chair of Asia Pacific Media Network, joins #PacificMornings to discuss the event and reflect on his work covering Asia-Pacific current affairs and research for ... <a title="David Robie talks media challenges, education and decolonisation on Radio 531pi’s Pacific Mornings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/david-robie-talks-media-challenges-education-and-decolonisation-on-radio-531pis-pacific-mornings/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie talks media challenges, education and decolonisation on Radio 531pi’s Pacific Mornings">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2024
Professor David Robie is among this year’s New Zealand Order of Merit awardees and was on the King’s Birthday Honours list earlier this month for his “services to journalism and Asia-Pacific media education.” His career in journalism has spanned five decades. He was the founding editor of the Pacific Journalism Review journal in 1994 and ... <a title="Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/29/decolonisation-the-climate-crisis-and-improving-media-education-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson Hawai’ian academic Dr Emalani Case has condemned the 2024 Rimpac military exercise that began off the coast of Hawai’i today, saying the military personnel from 29 countries taking part are “practising to invade”. “They call it practising defence but they’re really learning how to defend an empire while putting ... <a title="Hawai’i’s Rimpac war games begin, but academic condemns them as harmful ‘how to invade’ actions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/28/hawaiis-rimpac-war-games-begin-but-academic-condemns-them-as-harmful-how-to-invade-actions/" aria-label="Read more about Hawai’i’s Rimpac war games begin, but academic condemns them as harmful ‘how to invade’ actions">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2024
By Stefan Armbruster, Victor Mambor and BenarNews staff An unheralded visit to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces by a leading Pacific diplomat has drawn criticism for undermining a push for a United Nations human rights mission to the region where pro-independence fighters have fought Indonesian rule for decades. The Melanesian Spearhead Group’s Director-General, Leonard Louma, has not ... <a title="Indonesia accused of subverting Pacific push for UN rights mission to Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/27/indonesia-accused-of-subverting-pacific-push-for-un-rights-mission-to-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia accused of subverting Pacific push for UN rights mission to Papua">Read more</a>
