URGENT APPEAL: Ref: UAWP17/ 05.
27 June 2005
34th Anniversary of the Proclamation of West Papuan
Independence.
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Mr KOFI ANNAN Secretary General of the United Nations
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BACKGROUND
West Papua is situated on the same island as Papua New
Guinea and the indigenous people, like those of Papua
New Guinea, are Melanesian.
Indonesia has occupied West Papua since the 1969 "Act
of Free Choice" in which 1,022 electors, handpicked by
Indonesia from a population of around 1,000,000,
declared their vote publicly.
In 1962 the colonial ruler of the western half of the
island of New Guinea was the Netherlands and they were
preparing the people there for independence. But JF
Kennedy wrote to the Dutch Prime Minister warning him
that if he gave the islanders freedom instead of
handing them over to Indonesia "the entire free world
position in Asia would be seriously damaged": the
Indonesian Government would "succumb to communism if
it were not appeased. Kennedy's CIA adviser referred
to the land as "a few thousand miles of cannibal
land".
To avoid too much publicity Kennedy proposed that the
Indonesians be allowed to control West Papua for "a
specified period", after which the Papuan people would
be "granted the right of self-determination".
An agreement was drawn up stating that the UN would
supervise a referendum in which "all adult Papuans
have the right to participate."
It was clear that "85 - 90% would choose a Free Papua.
So the US told the UN that the result had to be
rigged and the UN prepared to obey: instead of all
Papuans 1022 men were selected by Indonesian soldiers,
taught the words "I want Indonesia" then lined up at
gunpoint. One man who refused to say the words was
shot and the others were threatened. A unanimous vote
for Indonesian rule was provided.
Since then the armed forces have bombed, napalmed and
strafed villages and tortured and murdered their
people. It has been suggested that 100,000 Papuans
have been killed and that Indonesia is committing
genocide against them.
Forced assimilation and mass immigration are intended,
according to a former governor of West Papua to "give
birth to a new generation of people without curly
hair
.."
Indonesia is now recognised as the sovereign
government of West Papua by the UK, the UN and other
nations.
Mr KOFI ANNAN
Secretary General of the United Nations
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Mr Kofi Annan
After the fraudulent so-called Act of Free Choice in
1969, West Papuan leaders, rejecting the result of the
Act of Free Choice, established the Free Papua
Movement (OPM) to resist Indonesian colonial rule.
As a powerful sign of resistance, on 1st July 1971 Mr.
Hendrik Jacob Prai and Zeth Roemkorem were ordered by
the leaders of the Free Papua Movement (OPM), Nicholas
Jowei and Frans Kaisepo, to raise the West Papua flag
in a small village called Waris. On that day 34 years
ago, the West Papuan people proclaimed to the world
that they would continue to fight for freedom. Now in
2005, the Papuan resistance lives on in the hearts of
a new generation of Papuan men and women proud to be
Papuans and confident that their legitimate right to
self-determination will be acknowledged and upheld.
In support of the commemoration of the 34th
anniversary of the proclamation of West Papuan right
to independence, I call on the United Nations
· to take immediate action to Review the Act of Free
Choice 1969
· to take immediate action to send a UN Peace Keeping
Force before the end of this year to prevent more
bloodshed.
· to put pressure on the Indonesian Government to
withdraw all its military forces from West Papua
before the end of 2005.
· to immediately appoint a neutral third country to
mediate between the West Papua National People's
Coalition for Independence and the Indonesian
Government at the negotiation table to find a peaceful
and just resolution to the West Papua issue.
Yours sincerely
Copies sent to:
H.E Mr.REZLAN ISHAR JENIE, Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to the
United Nations [EMAIL PROTECTED];
ACHEH PAPUA MALUKU HUMAN RIGHTS ONLINE
www.ahro.info [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AUSTRALIA
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