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Benny Wenda brings West Papuan Cry for Freedom to world-wide Anglican Communion at Lambeth Conference, 31 July 2008
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Benny Wenda brings West Papuan Cry for Freedom to world-wide Anglican Communion at Lambeth Conference, 31 July 2008

Report by Free West Papua Campaign, Oxford

1 August 2008


“WEST PAPUA is like a lost sheep, separated from our Melanesian Brothers and Sisters by Indonesia’s occupation of our country” said West Papuan independence leader and former political prisoner, Benny Wenda, in a speech to Anglican Bishops from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu at the Lambeth Conference last night, “but now at this meeting, the West Papuan sheep has been found!”


Benny Wenda and members of the Free West Papua Campaign (UK) were invited by the Archbishop of Papua New Guinea, the Most Reverend James Ayong, to speak at a gathering of Bishops from the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea and the Anglican Church of Melanesia (Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia/Kanaky) at the Lambeth Conference which, every 10 years, brings together in the UK over 600 Church leaders from every corner of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Bishops from Australia and many UK friends also attended the event last night in Canterbury, England.


Benny Wenda continued:


“Tonight I bring West Papua’s cry for freedom to the whole Anglican Communion and especially to all our Brothers and Sisters in Melanesia and the whole Pacific. For too many years my people have been silenced by Indonesia. When we say we want to be free, Indonesia puts us in prison, tortures us and kills us. Now we urgently need your support, solidarity and prayers. Being together with all my Melanesian Brothers and Sisters makes me feel complete for the first time in my life. Melanesia will not be free until West Papua is free!”


Richard Samuelson, Co-Director of the Free West Papua Campaign (UK) told the meeting: “Earlier this evening whilst we were setting out our stalls, the Church of Papua New Guinea brought out a map of PNG. At the same time I put our map of West Papua on the table. Then we both put our two maps together to make up the whole island of New Guinea. It was such an important moment which symbolised the overwhelming spirit we can feel in this room; the unity of the Melanesian people.

Here in the UK we are doing everything we can to put pressure on our own government to fulfil its promises to the West Papuan people and bring their case for self-determination to the United Nations. West Papua’s friends in Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the USA are doing the same with their own governments. Now West Papua desperately needs the Church in Melanesia, the rest of the Pacific to speak out and say to Indonesia; ‘Enough is enough. We want West Papua to be re-united with us as an independent Melanesian nation’.”


The meeting concluded with many moving expressions of compassion for the West Papuan people and pledges to take action by many Melanesian Bishops and other good friends of West Papua.


Richard Samuelson
Free West Papua Campaign, Oxford, UK.
www.freewestpapua.org

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