{"id":1546,"date":"2015-09-09T08:24:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T08:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2015-09-09T08:25:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T08:25:36","slug":"mccullys-refusal-to-act-on-west-papua-shameful-embarrassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1546","title":{"rendered":"McCully\u2019s refusal to act on West Papua shameful & embarrassing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Catherine Delahunty MP on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 – 10:52<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Murray McCully\u2019s position that a fact-finding mission into human rights atrocities in West Papua isn\u2019t needed shows a complete lack of leadership and credibility, the Green Party said today.<\/p>\n

\u201cMurray McCully\u2019s inaction on human rights abuses by Indonesia in West Papua is shameful \u2013 where\u2019s his integrity?\u201d said Green Party human rights spokesperson Catherine Delahunty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pacific Islands Forum is the ideal venue to support an investigation into the worst human rights abuses in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cMurray McCully\u2019s refusal to show any leadership on the issue and John Key having another little chat with the Indonesians will achieve nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve known for some time that there are ongoing, horrific human rights abuses in West Papua.<\/p>\n

\u201cSupporting a fact-finding mission into exactly what is happening in West Papua is the very least we should be doing, and yet Murray McCully is only willing to pay lip service to the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore talk isn\u2019t going to stop West Papuans dying, or finally give them the freedom and independence\u00a0they desperately want.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pacific Islands Forum is the perfect opportunity for Murray McCully and John Key to stand on the side of justice and with the people of West Papua; instead they\u2019re yet again bowing down to bullying from Indonesia and doing nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is support around the Pacific for independence for West Papua; an international fact-finding mission is seen as the first step in that process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can only assume that Murray McCully knows that any probe into human rights abuses in West Papua would make for unpleasant reading, and would require Pacific leaders to act in the face of pressure from Indonesia.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead he\u2019s happy to take the easy option and do nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat makes Murray McCully and New Zealand complicit in the ongoing repression of the West Papuan people, and that\u2019s not something we should be proud of,\u201d said Ms Delahunty.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.greens.org.nz\/news\/press-releases\/mccully%E2%80%99s-refusal-act-west-papua-shameful-embarrassing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catherine Delahunty MP on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 – 10:52 Murray McCully\u2019s position that a fact-finding mission into human rights atrocities in West Papua isn\u2019t needed shows a complete lack of leadership and credibility, the Green Party said today. \u201cMurray McCully\u2019s inaction on human rights abuses by Indonesia in West Papua is shameful \u2013 where\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-info-papua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}