The following appeared as a feature in the PNG Post- Courier newspaper on 22nd May 2015. By BENNY WENDA For more than 50 years, my people have suffered a creeping genocide under a repressive Indonesian military occupation that is estimated to have claimed 500,000 West Papuan lives.In one month’s time, the eyes of the Pacific […]

Yesterday on 21st May, Benny Wenda gave a talk at the Oxford Black Students Union about West Papua’s struggle against Indonesian colonialism and discrimination. Benny explained to the students that his people were not fighting to overthrow political power but were peacefully fighting purely to stop Indonesia’s colonialism, discrimination and racism in West Papua. In […]

On 11th May Benny Wenda gave a talk at the University of Sheffield School of Law in the United Kingdom. He talked about how the case for West Papua was very strong under international law, after West Papua was illegally occupied by Indonesia without the consent of the West Papuan people. Benny said that Indonesia […]

Today the West Papuan people held rallies all over West Papua and in some Indoensian cities too, asking that West Papua come back to the Melanesian family of the Melanesian Spearhead Group. The people of West Papua put their trust in the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) to represent them within the MSG […]

Govenor of Oro province, Papua New Guinea speaking to students in PNG and on radio about the decolonisation and independence of their brothers and sisters in West papua. Words by Gary Juffa: Speaking West Papua to Political Students at UPNG last night I was impressed with the turnout and interest…student movements in developing nations set […]

The Oxford Black Students Union is blessed to be inviting one of the most formidable freedom fighters of our time – Benny Wenda.  Benny is a West Papuan independence leader, international spokesman for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), and founder of the Free West Papua Campaign.  In his youth, he witnessed the […]

This statement has been written by West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda following the reports that up to 84 West Papuans were arrested and tortured yesterday for supporting West Papua joining the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG). Dear everyone, I am making this urgent message to the international community to please look towards the situation in […]

Solomon Islands could attain significant economic benefits if it supports West Papua’s submission for membership in one of the region’s powerful body, the Melanesian Spearhead Group. Read full article

LATEST reports. New update from Sentani, West Papua. 6 activists arrested today in Sentani for “distributing leaflets”. 70 arrested and beaten in Manokwari. Jayapura, STEP MAGAZINE – Due to distributing leaflets for peaceful demonstrations on May 21, 2015 tomorrow to the people of Papua, on Wednesday (05/20/2015), at around 13:00 CET, as many as six […]

A prominent West Papuan independence advocate says the plan by PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill to have governors from Indonesia’s Papuan provinces represented at the Melanesian Spearhead Group is deeply flawed. Read full article and listen to the interview here