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INFO PAPUA : West Papua News : WP Event Up Date 2006

FREE WEST PAPUA (UK):THANK YOU & 2 dates for your diary
By FREE WEST PAPUA CAMPAIGN
Feb 19, 2008, 15:59

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Oxford, England, 19th February 2008

Dear friends of West Papua,

THANK YOU & 2 dates for your diary

Warm greetings from Benny Wenda and all of us at FWPC here in Oxford – and a huge THANK YOU for all your active support for the cause!

Over the next few weeks -- with interest in West Papua growing all over Britain -- we’ll be travelling to Exeter, Cambridge (twice), Sheffield, Plymouth, Brighton, Newbury and Brixton (London). Heartfelt thanks to everyone for making these events possible.

If you’ve got an idea for a Free West Papua event where you live (a talk by Benny Wenda, a West Papuan music night, benefit gig, demo etc), please e-mail Richard on samoxen@dsl.pipex.com or phone me on 07891 235112.

THANK YOU also to all of you who have e-mailed/written to UK Foreign Office Minister Meg Munn MP about the 1969 Act of NO Choice. If you haven’t sent your e-mail yet, there’s still time. See:
http://www.freewestpapua.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=524&Itemid=2
Each and every message to the UK Government will help show that more and more people in the UK & worldwide care about justice, peace & freedom in West Papua. You CAN make a difference!

Here are TWO dates of upcoming FWPC events for your diaries:

1) Monthly OXFORD- WEST PAPUA NIGHT
After the great success of our first Oxford – West Papua night on 10th January, we’ve decided to make this a monthly event. Join us for more live West Papuan music, food and sharing of FWPC action ideas and plans.
NB: Please note CHANGE OF VENUE.
Date: Wednesday 27th February 2008
Time: 7.00pm
Place: Port Mahon Pub (upper room)
82, St. Clements Street, St Clements, Oxford, OX4 1AW
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=452643&y=206051&z=0&ar=Y

2) WEST PAPUA: MONTHLY SOLIDARITY VIGIL (March 2008)

Indonesian Embassy, LONDON.

Date: Monday 10th March 2008

Time: 12 noon to 2.00pm

Place: outside the Indonesian Embassy,
38, Grosvenor Square, London, W1K 2HW

RELEASE THE PRISONERS!
STOP THE KILLING!
SEND THE TROOPS HOME!
INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM NOW!
FREE WEST PAPUA!

For photos of our February vigil outside the Indonesian Embassy, see:
http://www.freewestpapua.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=532&Itemid=2


Until West Papua’s liberation from Indonesian colonial rule, the Free West Papua Campaign (UK) will hold a monthly WEST PAPUA: SOLIDARITY VIGIL outside the Indonesian Embassy in London, if possible on the 1st or 2nd Monday of the month from 12 noon to 2.00pm (Please check our website "Events" section for dates & times)

Papua Merdeka! Free West Papua!
Richard
Richard Samuelson
Free West Papua Campaign, Oxford, UK
www.freewestpapua.org
FWPC Quotation:
Yale Law School, December 2003
Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control
http://www.law.yale.edu/news/4681.htm
"Since the so-called [1969 UN-supervised] Act of Free Choice, the West Papuan people have suffered persistent and horrible abuses at the hands of the Indonesian government.
The Indonesian military and security forces have engaged in widespread violence and extrajudicial killings in West Papua. They have subjected Papuan men and women to acts of torture, disappearance, rape, and sexual violence, thus causing serious bodily and mental harm. Systematic resource exploitation, the destruction of Papuan resources and crops, compulsory (and often uncompensated) labor, transmigration schemes, and forced relocation have caused pervasive environmental harm to the region, undermined traditional subsistence practices, and led to widespread disease, malnutrition, and death among West Papuans.
Such acts, taken as a whole, appear to constitute the imposition of conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the West Papuans. Many of these acts, individually and collectively, clearly constitute crimes against humanity under international law."
See also Yale University: Genocide Studies Program (Papua)

http://www.yale.edu/gsp/papua/index.html

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