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Part 02. Historical Flashback

INTRODUCTION
The struggle of West Papua to reset international recognition on its former political status as Non-Governing Territory is entering its 3rd stage - the stage of Interest Diplomacy.

The 1st stage of our struggle - the Physical Resistance - commenced from the second half of the 1960s, and lasted well into 1997 without any meaningful result in terms of international support, especially from those who had directly involved in the creation of the case.

Since 1998, a new approach of Legal Diplomacy that has constituted the 2nd stage of the struggle, was applied, where legal aspects of this case are surveyed and developed - that has eventually serve the Papuans as Legal Platform. Certain nations are beginning to realize each respective mistakes, made by their former leaders in the past that had  intentionally contributed to the efforts of territorial annexation of West Papua by Indonesia.

We know very well that the current nightmarish fate facing West Papuans is a direct consequence of irresponsible political decisions made by certain world leaders in the past - solely for their national economic and political interests - for which, the current stage of Interest Diplomacy is anticipatively directed.

This title becomes the 3rd in the "West Papua" serial - supplementary to two previous titles: 'West Papua: From Colonization to Recolonization' (Political History - 1998) and 'West Papua: A Scandal In The UN Decolonization History (Legal Cover - 1999) currently in world-wide circulation.

Although reflecting pure Papuan perception towards the case, parts of the entire scenario in this article were taken from a wide variety of invaluable sources and references - simply inter-connected and compiled in a 'self-revelatory' order - that eventually will lead every reader to understand how special interest groups - on behalf of and or for the sake of international interests - had conspiratively thwarted West Papuan independence.

  • In terms of present and future Global Interests..

'The Case We Knew' has cost the Papuans every single sacrifice - be it LIFE, BLOOD, SWEAT, TEAR and DIGNITY - 'The Case We Knew' has taught the Papuans to perceive with more better and sharper view - and, from now on learn to RESPECT only those who help - NOT those who have had exploited the country without any consideration as to its people's dues.

In Respective:

To Indonesia, West Papua is a matter of 'separatism' that has to be kept under strict repressive control;

To America, West Papua is an 'economic bonanza' that has to be politically kept in status quo and maintained under permanent Indonesian occupation;

To the Netherlands, West Papua is just a 'vergeten aarde' (forgotten earth);

To Europe, Australia and Asia, West Papua is solely an Indonesian domestic political and 'territorial unity' matter, that absolutely require no international interference;

To the United Nations, West Papua (as a Non-Self-Governing Territory and Nation in Decolonization), is merely an 'object' in the international law;

All inalienable Human Rights and International Legislations that should be in-discriminatively implemented and or indistinctively applied are totally NULL and VOID in the Case of Wet Papua.
Book 3.  Cover

Part 02. Historical Flashback