It was a heart-warming and solid turn out in Garramilla (Darwin) joining the A30 for West Papua global actions!
August 30 is also the 25-year anniversary of Timor-Leste’s independence after enduring a brutal and violent occupation by Indonesian forces from 1975-1999. The year before Australian-led deployment of the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) to fight for their humanity and freedom, a horrific massacre that lasted days happened on the island of Biak in West Papua, again Australia ignore the cries of our neighbours. Today we listened to testimonies of the Biak massacre from the album We Have come to Testify available on Band Camp.
Amazing solidarity for all Indigenous peoples today, we all must deliver justice and reparations and freedom to all Indigenous peoples of the world, for none of us are free until they are. The Colonies will fall!
Today in Dili as the Timorese celebrate their independence and show solidarity for West Papua, officials and leaders from around the world including the UN General Secretary and Anthony Albanese are also gathered for the Pacific Islands Forum where we hope the continuing human rights violations, genocide and ecocide in West Papua are discussed.
Today we asserted our united A30 for West Papua demands outside the Indonesian consulate:
1 – End The Ecocide and Genocide
2 – Full Human Rights Violations Accountability
3 – Allow the Indigenous Right to Self Determination
4 – Cease all military + police resourcing
5 – Call for a UN High Commission for Human Rights visit to West Papua
Australia continues to be complicit in the genocide in West Papua, supplying weapons, training with the Indonesian military and police, trading resources that are taken violently and without consent displacing tens of thousands of West Papuans.
Find out more about Australia’s demands and other A30 for West Papua actions across the globe at @a30WestPapua
