For immediate release: Tuesday 1st August, 2006.

being presented by fPcN in the UN WGIP 2006, Geneva, tomorrow - watch
the website, from 2nd August for photos as we receive them.
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United Nations
Economic and Social Council
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Working Group on Indigenous Populations
Twenty-fourth session
Geneva, 31st July - 4 th August 2006
Item (b) of the Agenda: Principal theme: “Utilization of indigenous
peoples’ lands by non-indigenous authorities, groups or individuals
for military purposes”


Dear Chairperson, Tribal & Indigenous Peoples, Secretariat,
Government representatives, ladies & Gentleman,

It is indeed a great pleasure and honour to be able to part in this
very important UN meeting for indigenous peoples. I send warm
greetings - from my own people, the Lani of the Central Highlands of
West Papua, and from the people of all 252 tribes which together make
up my country — WEST PAPUA. Allow me to use this opportunity to
speak on behalf of the tribal peoples in West Papua. We are an
occupied people. We have been suffering for a very long time under an
Indonesian military regime in West Papua.

We the tribal peoples of West Papua once again ask you the United
Nations to help us to get back our lands and our political freedom.
We ask you to help us to exercise our right to self-determination.

First of all, I would like to state that the basic fundamental
problem of all the killings, human right abuses and sufferings of the
tribal peoples of West Papuans are rooted in the false 'Act of Free
Choice', which we call the ACT OF NO CHOICE. My people in West Papua
were never given a genuine chance to exercise their rights to self-
determination since the involvement of the United Nations in West
Papua in 1960s.

As you may already know, in 1969 the United Nations arrived with
just a few officials. The Indonesians decided we were too primitive
to cope with democracy so they hand picked a thousand men at gun
point and told them to vote. This is what the United Nations
representative, Fernando Ortiz-sanz, said in his report:

“West Papua carried out in months what experts said should take 5
years. West Papuans did not have adequate information. Indonesia
did not accept one man, one vote.” Off the record he also said that:
“West Papua is a cancerous growth on the side of the United Nations
and it is my job to surgically remove it.” This was very hurtful to
us. Since, the time of the Act of Free Choice the Indonesian
government has made West Papua a military zone and has been killing
my people. The Indonesian military has killed at least one hundred
thousand of my people. This number comes from Amnesty International.
The human rights violations in West Papua are still happening right now.
In the last ten years, most of Indonesia's military equipment has
come from the UK. Since the current Labour Government came to power,
the UK has delivered over £394 million worth of military equipment to
Indonesia, including 12 Tactical Armoured Personnel Carriers and Hawk
aircraft, which have been used in an internal repression role in West
Papua.

In 2001 and 2002, the UK issued over three-quarters of all EU arms
export licenses for Indonesia, with the value of these export
licenses responsible for over half the total financial value of EU
arms deals to Indonesia. In the last two years for which figures are
available – 2003 and 2004 - the UK has continued to issue over half
of all EU arms export licenses to Indonesia. In these two years the
UK, France and Germany have accounted for 84% and 92% of the total
financial value of EU arms deals to Indonesia. These licenses, many
of which are for weapons which very often are used to breach human
rights, and are permitted even though they breach the human rights
provision of the EU Code of Conduct.

In August 2005 UK Tactical vehicles were sent to Jayapura in West
Papua, and were present at two demonstrations – one on 12th August
and one on 31st October. They were used to help enforce laws which
breach fundamental human rights.

The following is an Extract from US State Dept Annual Report on
Indonesia for 2005- quotes.
“Security forces continued to commit unlawful killings of rebels,
suspected rebels, and civilians in areas of separatist activity,
where most politically motivated extrajudicial killings also
occurred. There was evidence that the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI)
considered anyone killed by its forces in conflict areas to be an
armed rebel. The government largely failed to hold soldiers and
police accountable for such killings and other serious human rights
abuses in Aceh and Papua.”- end quotes.

According to figures supplied by the US State Dept. the strength of
the territorial infantry battalions in West Papua has more than
trebled in the past two years. On the same State Dept figures (almost
certainly a conservative estimate), overall troop numbers have
increased by more than 50 per cent from 7,250 troops to 11,500 troops.

'Indonesia's systematic exploitation of West Papua's abundant natural
resources has been a major cause of tension and conflict. Operations
have involved the denial of land rights and severe environmental
degradation. Some of the worst human rights violations have been
committed against indigenous people in the vicinity of major
enterprises, such as the Freeport copper and gold mine (part owned by
Britain's Rio Tinto), which are given corporate-funded ‘protection’
by the security forces. It is feared that BP’s investment in a huge
liquid natural gas project, Tangguh, may attract similar problems.

Chairperson, to conclude;
I would like to state that the United Nations must take
responsibility for the genocide in West Papua; therefore, I call for
attention from all the international community who love humanity and
peace in the world to look at West Papuans problems and take steps to
help my people in West Papua.

I call for the UN to intervene in West Papua by sending a
peacekeeping force and humanitarian workers to investigate what is
really happening in West Papua. This must be followed by the
withdrawal of Indonesian military (both organic and non organic)
without any conditions.

I would ask this Working Group to request the government's of the UK,
EU countries and USA to revise their current arms trade arrangements
with Indonesia, in light of the massive, ongoing and brutal slaying
of the indigenous peoples of West Papua.

I urge the United Nations to revisit this and provide an environment
where the native West Papuans have a real opportunity for the self-
determination, as described in THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as Adopted and proclaimed by
General Assembly resolution of 10 December 1948 -Paragraph C. THE
RIGHT OF SELF-DETERMINATION - No. 8. Declaration on the Granting of
Independence to Colonial and Peoples, General Assembly resolution
1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960.

I remind you that we the tribal peoples of West Papua have a right of
self-determination under international law.

Thank you Chair, Ladies and Gentlemen – Wa Wa Awa.

Benny Wenda
International Lobbyist for a Free West Papua
Chair of DeMMaK (The Koteka Tribal Assembly)
PO Box 656, Oxford OX3 3AP England UK
Mobile: +44 (0) 7791629782
Email: bwenda (at) infopapua.org
Web: www.infopapua.org

Everyone should call washington .How can we get this message out in the open. Believe me people dont know and I believe that alot of people are being quiet on purpose as they exploit the locals, and thier nations rights.

I want to do business in PNG, iwill be reporting on my visit there in november.I am consulting on a project C.O.F.R. the countries of fishing republics. It is an appeal to stop the studies and put people in the field in this region of the world. create jobs from thier natural and inherent wealth. I would be intrested in the help of the nationals & the CDE/CTA in PNG.
Barry Altman/fairdinkums

Support and Solidarity to our brothers & sisters of West Papua. Kia Kaha, our whanau whole heartedly agree that the tribal peoples of West Papua have a right of self-determination under international law.

we belive and still waiting for the day of we freedom because we always belive of one true story and still always we keep in our harth is a story of samparydek

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