Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 07:36:42 -0800 (PST) From: Sem Karoba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear all supporters of West Papua, Lani Tribe from the highlands is now becoming the TARGET of the Indonesian police and army. We inform that: 1. OPM/TPN is not Lani people, there is no way whatsoever, the Idonesian police and TNI point out Lani as OPM/TPN. 2. The struggle in West Papua is the struggle of all Papuans. Why the Lani become the target? For a simple reason, we do not have enough access to the international community. We are not well educated in modern politics. We are the victims of the INdonesian occupation in West Papua. We are honest, strong in our principles and beliefs and never surrender and no compromise to the Indonesians for the sake of the truth. 3. The massacre and deaths of innocent civilians (recently 3 university students who are Lani in Jayapura) in West Papua are purely the brutal acts from the Indonesian army and police, and government who do not want to resolve West Papua political issue in democratic way. In recent incident, the army attacked two Lani dormitories, Ninmin from Puncak Jaya Regency and Nayak from Baliem Regency and took all students sleeping in their dormitories and one of them was shot on the spot. Three others died in police prison, after heavily beaten. This recent death is the strongest example we can ever give you, how Indonesians treat the Lani people since they occupied West Papua. We declare that: 1. Lani people will not step any step back with any reason, until all Lani people are completely wiped out from their land, West Papua. We are all ready to die for our land. 2. Until January 2001, all Lani people will get out from West Papua to Papua New Guinea. This massive exodus is the last effort we can ever do to escape from massive genocide over a tribe on this planet. 3. We will not going out to Papua New Guiena to escape from the responsiblity, but we are going to fight back, until finally we free West Papua from Indonesian colonialism and occupation. 4. All Papuans are now ready and stand-by to close-down multinationals operating in West Papua, namely Santa Fe in Sorong, Freeport McMoRan in Timika, Conocco in Bintuni, and other timber companies in West Papua AS SOON AS POSSIBLE since this letter is sent out to you all. We demand the multinationals working in West Papua to take steps towards what is going to happen to their operations in West Papua before all things are late. They are guests in West Papua, and they need to know what is going to happen. THEREFORE, WE URGE THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: 1. Please mobilise human rights organisations such as Amnesty International, Peace Brigade International, UNHCR, and others to come and monitor human rights violations and humanitarian crises in West Papua. 2. We urge the International Community to plan actions to resolve West Papua political issues democratically, peacefully and comprehensively. The international community should not repeat its past mistake by allowing further killings of innocent civilians until it is late to act then try to blame each other. All supporters of West Papua, could you please wide-spread this call? West Papua is now in emergency situation. We always warn before things happen, and we do not want to be late as it usually happens. Yours in solidarity, SK -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink