A statement by AWPA (Australia West Papua Association) compliments the American
call by ETAN and WPAT
for the U.S. government to suspend all funding and training of
Indonesia's Detachment 88 police unit. These Indonesian forces and
militia including
Laskar Jihad and the
BMP physically
violate many human rights besides free speech in the territory.
The
U.S. Dept of State masks this colony from the US public by claiming the
UN in 1969 declared it was part of Indonesia, and that any murders and
the rape of West Papua is a domestic matter of a trusted partner,
Indonesia. Yet Sukarno was the person who supplied oil for Japan's
Pacific war. Contrary to the State Department's claim; the
UN in 1969 only said the Netherlands and Indonesia were not objecting to Indonesia's action, the UN did not claim West Papua was
consenting to Indonesian rule.
It is a cover-up, just as East Timor was legally a
Portuguese colony when it got it's vote in 1999, West Papua is legally
still a Dutch colony. It is only suffering Indonesian rule because
President Kennedy accepted the advice of McGeorge Bundy to press the Netherlands into signing the
New York Agreement trading the people of West Papua without their consent.
Unknown to President Kennedy, the colony had the world's richest
gold & copper deposits
which the Freeport company wanted; and his adviser McGeorge Bundy was a
family friend of Freeport director Robert Lovett. By giving General
Suharto control of West Papua, and later supporting the General's
takeover of the Indonesian state; the US government has involved itself
in colonization.
I suggest that the American public should stop their
government's cover-up and return the White house to a better path.