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UN must be allowed access to West Papua after latest violence leaves hundreds displaced, interim president insists
(Left to right) Benny Wenda, Dame Vivienne Westwood, and Free West Papua spokesperson Raki Ap outside the head office of BP, in London in 2019
INTERIM West Papuan president Benny Wenda called for urgent intervention from the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross today as hundreds fled renewed Indonesian violence.
At least 600 people have taken shelter in a Catholic compound after three men were executed by Indonesian soldiers last week at a health centre, where one of them had been receiving treatment for a gunshot wound, Mr Wenda said.
“Those displaced by these operations will have no access to healthcare. They cannot tend to their crops. The children cannot go to school,” Mr Wenda said.
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