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Benny Wenda, Leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua
WEST PAPUAN independence campaigners issued an urgent call today for international bodies to step in and prevent further massacres after a week of bloodshed in the occupied Pacific nation.
United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) leader Benny Wenda warned that 2019 was becoming the worst year of violence in nearly six decades of illegal Indonesian occupation after at least 27 were killed during protests this week.
He appealed for the UN to intervene as a matter of urgency and put a stop to the killings.
PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres
