Part 05. IV. Initial Questions to the UN for Immediate Clarifications

• III. THE MURDERERS OF A STATE AND NATION
• III.1. The United Nations
• III.2. The USA
• III.3. The Netherlands
• III.4. Indonesia
• III.5. Other 81 Nations

III. THE MURDERERS OF A STATE AND NATION

            All peoples have the rights to self-determination; by virtue of that rights they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development (Para. 13 Article 2).

            All armed action or repressive measures of all kinds directed against dependent peoples shall cease in order to enable them to exercise peacefully and freely their rights to complete independence, and the integrity of their national territory should be respected (Para. 13 Article 4).

            Any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and the territorial integrity of a country is incompatible with the purposes and principles of the United Nations (Para. 13 Article 6).

Actually, a true international conspiracy had occurred in the transferring process of West Papua to Indonesia.

            The following outline reflects the UNITED NATIONS and a number of its Member States that had taken part in the West Papuan Decolonization ABORTION Process, i.e., the murder of West Papua as a non-self-governing territory and people.   It contains initial master-minders of the process, as well as the list of State Parties that had legitimised the process: 

III.1.  The United Nations:  

Total INCAPABILITY of the (Acting) UN Secretary General, U Thant, in enforcing all international laws applicable in the defence of the Inalienable Rights of West Papua as a Non-Self-Governing Territory and Nation in process to full independence under UN Decolonization program is unacceptable and much questionable (whereas, the late UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld was promoting Self-Determination for West Papua - an approach that didn’t favour the Dutch nor favoured the Indonesian claim).

“…It was not in the Dutch interests to fight again with Indonesia because of the Papuans. So they had to solve it with Indonesia and they were very willing to come to an agreement with Indonesia.   And they were not the only ones because the United Nations actually played the WORST ROLE in this whole affair… It was the United Nations that had the official role for looking after the RIGHT WAY that the Act Of Free Choice was going in a democratic way…” (Dr. Hans Meijer, Dutch Historian, ABC Radio National Asia/ Pacific program, first broadcast Tue. Apr. 17, 2001 - Documents show Dutch support for West Papua takeover).

“John Stalford’s statements…”

III.2.  The USA:

As one of the key initiators and decision-makers, John F. Kennedy and his Administration represented US’s Interests in the process.

“...What moves me is my conviction that in our COMMON INTERESTS, the present opportunities for peaceful settlement in this painful matter must not be lost...” (US President John F. Kennedy in his Secret Letter to the Dutch PM de Quay - 2 April 1962).

 “…What we are going to do on West New Guinea was in the INTEREST of the United States…” (US Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy to Indonesia’s President Soekarno, Jakarta - 1962).

With Bunker as mediator in the SECRET NEGOTIATIONS, the talks were an unending retreat by the Dutch from their initial standpoint    (Dr.  Poulgrain, Biak - September 2000).

Kennedy’s continuous pressure on both Indonesia and the Netherlands for the settlement of the conflict through SECRET NEGOTIATIONS.   The SECRET NEGOTIATIONS were held without any native Papuan Representatives

At the same time, J.F. Kennedy repeatedly used two interesting and questionable terms: for our common INTERESTS and for JUSTICE. For one thing, common interests reflect the Cold War Era and the Natural Resources in West Papua that could be exploited for the economic interests of the West. However, why did President Kennedy search for JUSTICE? Was there any injustice between Indonesia and the Netherlands, between the U.S.A. and Indonesian? Or was it between Papuans the Americans?

III.3.  The Netherlands:

“ … The Netherlands position, as we understand it, is that you wish to withdraw from the territory of West New Guinea and that you have NO OBJECTION to this territory eventually passing to the control of Indonesia…” (US President John F. Kennedy’s Secret Letter to the Dutch PM de Quay - 2 April 1962).

During the SECRET NEGOTIATIONS in 1962 that led to the (New York) Agreement, Jozef Luns’ (Dutch Foreign Minister) instructions to the Dutch Representative, van Roijen were so counter-productive in helping to attain SELF-DETERMINATION for the Papuans (Dr. Greg Poulgrain, Biak - September2000).

In February 1969, the Dutch Foreign Minister, Jozef Luns,  said in the cabinet that he was convinced that the Act Of Free Choice would not be honest because if it was honest the Papuans would vote against Indonesia and he was certain that the poll results would not go against Indonesia but that it would be in favour of Indonesia.  And that was actually the outcome.   But Luns said this already in February 1969 (more than half a year before the Act Of Free Choice). Wasn’t this undemocratic and a FARCE.

            Dr. Hans Meijer uncovered the incriminating documents, which show the Dutch government of the day gave tacit approval to undemocratic arrangements for the 1969 Act Of Free Choice, an orchestrated voting process by a small number of pre-appointed (Pro Indonesia) tribal leaders, and placed them at gun-point to decide the fate of the territory.

            The Dutch Government has launched an inquiry into information contained in SECRET documents on the transfer of Dutch New Guinea - now known as Papua or West Irian - to Indonesia’s recolonisation in the 1960s.   The documents include the minutes of Dutch cabinet meetings and confidential correspondence with Indonesian officials. The documents contradict claims by successive Dutch governments and Papuan people that the Netherlands tried to protect the Papuan people from the Indonesian take-over. 

            Dr. Meijer acknowledges archives from former Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia in 1960s, Mr. Schiff, for the first time that there are some proofs that the Dutch Government indeed had double roles (two faces) during the West Papua Decolonisation Processes.  The Netherlands was in fact pretending to help the Papuans, but actually encouraging Indonesia to recolonise the territory. Take an example; approving the outcome of the undemocratic Act of Free Choice on November 19, 1969 is the strongest fact that supports Dr. Meijer’s findings.

III.4.  Indonesia:

“ …Jakarta is not interested in the Papuans but in West Irian as territory…” (Brig. General Ali Moertopo, Indonesian Sr. Officer In Charge for the Act Of Free Choice - 1969)

There are absolutely no acceptable facts or even legal grounds whatsoever in the International law, that can be used to justify Indonesia’s territorial claim on West Papua.

 “U.N. SUPPORTED ACT OF ANNEXATION”, is the right label to define Indonesia’s claim of the Territory.

III.5.  Other 81 Nations:

The following nations are well known in West Papua and - was, is, and will be remembered in the territory’s history for generations to come as ‘Killers Of A Papuan State And Nation” for their direct participation in the ‘take-note’ and ‘adoption’ of UNGA Resolution 2504 (XXIV), 19 November 1969, that has put West Papua in a considerable Human Rights Violations situation:

Part 05. IV. Initial Questions to the UN for Immediate Clarifications