SUPPORT MATHIAS WENDA IN PNG PRISON

(His Special Message)

Mathias Wenda , the Chief Commander of the Free Papua Movement's Liberation Army, was arrested in February 2001 by the Commander of PNG Police in Vanimo , two months after the political leader, Theys H. Eluway was arrested in Port Numbay West Papua. Indonesia is now trying to crush down the strong aspiration for independence movement in West Papua by any ways that it can. It cannot bomb the people now, it cannot intimidate the people now, it cannot infiltrate them with its lies anymore. But Wenda has said, he can be arrested and imprisoned as a person, by the movement and the struggle will not.

He is now under arrest with other 11 members of his troops and are suffering from being left in prison without proper care. Most of them suffer from malaria and insufficient vitamins and proteins. They need your help. Read his message below and do what you can do for the struggle.

Currently Mathias Wenda and his troops in prison need basic needs as follows:

Medicines (first aid) equipment

Medicines to cure malaria disease, i.e., chloroquinne? or quinine
Or Financial contributions as we can get our basic needs here in Indonesia quiet easily and cheaply. Please send you financial contributions through: Mr. S. KAROBA, Barclays Bank, West Sussex Branch, UK. Sort Code: 20-20-62, Acc. Number: 207-45235, Acc. Name: S Karoba, MR.
To send material contribution, please contact amunggut@yahoo.com for information mail address.
To send financial contribution, please contact opmsg@eco-action.org
For more information, please visit: 
http://www.westpapua.org.uk/action/mwenda.htm
http://www.eco-action.org/opm
http://www.geocities.com/wp_tpnoopm

The Collective Editorial Boards of the Diary of Online Papua Mouthpiece (OPM), From the Jungles of West Papua

"Mathias Wenda is in Prison now, but the Movement for West Papua independence will never be Imprisoned in any way!": says Gen. Mathias Wenda in Vanimo, PNG Prison"

The CEB reporting from West Papua Forests, April 01.2001

On February 05,2001, the Commander of the Vanimo Police said, "successfully arrested" his fellow tribesman from the Western Papua, the Chief Commander of West Papua Independence Movement Organisation, TPN/OPM. Parallel to what can happen in Ireland is a Police Commander of a northern county of the Irish Republic arrested the Commander of the Sin Fein's IRA.

Mathias Wenda is charged for waving an illegal military training and movement in a foreign country (well Papua is not foreign to both of the commanders anyway) and now Wenda is waiting for trial at Lae Court, PNG. He is expected to be imprisoned for 6 months. Eleven members of his troops (TPN/OPM) (The IRA of West Papua) are arrested with him.
From prison, he sent this message to the Diary of OPM ( http://www.westpapua.org.uk ), the CEB Reporting.

Dear Supporters of West Papua/ns and all human beings on who love peace, justice and truth earth. The struggle of the Papuans against obliteration of West Papua as a people and as a country commenced in 1963 is not a struggle for an autonomy within Indonesia as it is to Northern Ireland within Britain. 

Our struggle is not based upon our hatred to any race, religion or nations on the planet.

Our struggle is not just a struggle for independence.

We are fighting against neo-colonial power at this level of human civilisation. We are struggling against our common enemy, the enemy of all human beings on earth, "the monster-capitalism" that had destroyed our planet badly. If we let it plundering in Papua land, our next generations will curse us for not leaving them just a piece of land on earth with original inhabitants, be it forests, be it humans, be it natural resources, be it animals. They will cry and swear against us for not leaving them forests for their planet's source of oxygen.

We are fighting against imperialism in our post-modern era. This is one part of all movements of people against injustices, massacres, massive environmental destruction and the biggest social-engineering programme in our human history ever, which not surprisingly fully funded by the World Bank and the states.

I am now imprisoned in my own land, Papua, by my own tribesman, Papuan and staying here in my own prison. Because of fighting against exploitation of my land and my people, against destruction of my ecology and ecosystem.

One this I know is this: Mathias Wenda can be imprisoned anytime with any reason, anywhere, but the movement and struggle for West Papua independence will not be arrested or imprisoned in anyway by whoever, anywhere in the world until the goal is achieved.

My greetings to all of you supporters of West Papua/ns and all human beings who love peace, justice and truth on our life.

Vanimo, PNG, 01 April 2001.
Chief Commander of TPN/OPM

Gen. TPN PB Mathias Wenda

© 2002 The Diary of Online Papua Mouthpiece