Information is coming to light about New Zealand's exports to Indonesia's military forces, which are engaged in a long-running and escalating conflict in West Papua, reports Maire Leadbeater.
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West Papuans and their supporters around the world traditionally raise the Morning Star flag — the symbol of an independent Papua — on December 1. This is an act of defiance, as flying the flag is outlawed by the occupying Indonesian government.
New Zealand-based West Papua solidarity activist and author Maire Leadbeater looks the new uprising in West Papua and the repression being carried out by Indonesian security forces while governments, including NZ’s, remain silent.
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AUCKLAND — A forest of West Papuan "Morning Star" flags and chants of "Free West Papua" and "Observer status now" greeted the arriving delegates of the Pacific Islands Forum at the Sheraton Hotel here on August 14. Sixty
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AUCKLAND — Amnesty International activists co-ordinated three successful vigils in solidarity with the people of Aceh on June 6. The vigils, in the morning, at noon and during evening rush hour, took place in Auckland's
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AUCKLAND — A new group, Justice for Asylum Seekers, has been formed here to agitate against the scandalous treatment of those seeking refuge from persecution. The inspiration for the group's formation was the hunger strike by
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AUCKLAND — The first structure to go up on the site of the occupied "Moutoa Gardens", now renamed Pakaitore Marae, was the traditional entrance gate. Tribal leaders assured the puzzled people of Whanganui, an attractive
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AUCKLAND — While nuclear power is on the decline worldwide, New Zealand received what might be a last, desperate swipe of the dragon's tail when Prime Minister Jim Bolger's Special Committee on Nuclear Propulsion