Today, Sunday, June 02, 2002 09:06:29 AM

Papuan Representatives Heading to Jakarta to Meet Mega-Hamzah Government

To Ask for International Intervention into the Assassination of Papuan Independence Leader and Tribal Elder, the Late Ondofolo Dortheys Hiyo Eluay on 11 November 2001

AMP Spokesperson for International Community Reporting:

What you can do:

1. Be ready with letters of protest to Megawati-Hamza Regime;

2. Be ready to write letter of support to the statement and request from the Papuan representatives.

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Dear all,

Yesterday, 1 June 2002, a group of 7 Papuans arrived in Jakarta in the afternoon, and now staying at Hotel Sriwijaya Jakarta, nearby the President of Indonesia Palace.

Tomorrow, more than 7 Papuans will arrive and will stay at the same hotel.

The purposes of the visit are:

1. To refuse the finding of the National Investigation Commission (KPN) that Theys' assassination is an act of criminal;

2. To formulate Papuan people's view on the murder of Papuan independence leader and tribal elder;

3. To publicly invite the International Community to intervene into the fully manipulative lieas by the State-Terrorist Indonesia. Papuans want the international community to proactively and wisely act before the next East Timor bloodbaths begin, and before the human rights situation in West Papua worsen. 

Background Notes:

We have been patient for months now and we want to tell the world that we have hearts, minds and feelings. We are humans. The world should be wiser to understand that state-terrorism in West Papua should be brought to an end, in the names of democracy, human rights and legal supremacy.

The world should not give any place in the world to state-terrorism and state-terrorists. Ignoring or deliberately forgetting state-terrorists is absolutely unwise, and state-terrorists are in fact more dangerous than Osama bin Laden's networks. If the US attacked countries that harbour terrorism, it should also consider wisely to sort out state-terrorists themselves, not only those that harbour terrorists. Justice should prevail in our war against terrorism in this planet.

State-terrorism in West Papua started decades ago, and the world still ignores the plea of the Papuan people. The world also in fact acted very late in responding to humanitarian crises in East Timor. And the world is now repeating its mistake by ignoring or expecting more horrendous violations of human rights.

(To read more on terrorism in West Papua, please visit http://www.westpapua.net/  and search for the word "terrorist" or "jihad".)