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Vanuatu: Strengthened Military Ties with Indonesia Spark Protests, Arrests

Vanuatu: Strengthened Military Ties with Indonesia Spark Protests, Arrests

Protestors say that the arrival of Indonesian officials and military personnel in the country is unacceptable given Vanuatu's longstanding support for West Papuan self-determination. Under a recently signed co-operat ...

Violence reinforces West Papua’s independence aspirations

Violence reinforces West Papua’s independence aspirations

Jayapura: A number of acts of violence have occurred in Papua, but none of these incidents have been investigated. which creates the impression that the Indonesian government it simply not interested, while these inc ...

Identity Transduction Arts, Series 1.4: You Are Experienced

Identity Transduction Arts, Series 1.4: You Are Experienced

4th in a series of 'Identity Transduction' Artworks (By Humphrey King) ...

Shameless Cameron’s hypocrisy in arms peddling

Shameless Cameron’s hypocrisy in arms peddling

"Now Cameron is to sell even more weaponry to a country which, although ostensibly a democracy, is still prosecuting a largely hidden war." ...

Why America Won’t Help With Kashmir

Why America Won’t Help With Kashmir

THE WEST LOOKS UPON INDIA AS A BOOMING MARKET WHERE IT CAN SELL ITS ARMAMENTS AND TECHNOLOGY. India, the largest importer of arms in the world, is planning to enhance its stockpile by buying $100 billion worth of new ...

Groups Urge U.S. Not to Sell Attack Helicopters to Indonesia

Groups Urge U.S. Not to Sell Attack Helicopters to Indonesia

Ninety organizations today urged the U.S. government and Congress not to provide deadly attack helicopters to Indonesia. Indonesia has announced that it plans to buy eight AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the Uni ...

Afghanistan: Grieving Survivors Describe The Kandahar Massacre
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Afghanistan: Grieving Survivors Describe The Kandahar Massacre

Reporter Yalda Hakim of Australia's SBS network has become the first western journalist to visit the villages where a U.S. soldier allegedly killed 17 people. In a remarkable report she talks with some of the survivo ...

West Papua: ‘It is as though there is a war here’

West Papua: ‘It is as though there is a war here’

A local community leader in Keerom district has spoken out about the presence of many military posts in his area as well as along the border (between West Papua and PNG) ...

Human Rights Watch: Rape, torture plague Myanmar’s Kachin conflict

Human Rights Watch: Rape, torture plague Myanmar’s Kachin conflict

Source: The Sun Daily BANGKOK (March 20, 2012): Troops in Myanmar have murdered, tortured and raped civilians since fighting with separatists flared up around nine months ago in northern Kachin State, leading to the ...

Karzai backs claim of US massacre cover-up in Kandahar

Karzai backs claim of US massacre cover-up in Kandahar

Afghan President Hamid Karzai today backed claims that more than one person had conducted the massacre of 16 civilians which US forces have blamed on a single soldier. ...

Injustice Reigns in West Papua: Jayapura 5 Found Guilty of Treason

Injustice Reigns in West Papua: Jayapura 5 Found Guilty of Treason

Hundreds of security forces are on the streets around Jaypura, West Papua, in a show of force as an Indonesian court found five Congress leaders guilty of Makar (treason), and sentenced the defendants each to three y ...

Indonesian military officers arbitrarily arrest and torture Papuan civilians

Indonesian military officers arbitrarily arrest and torture Papuan civilians

INDONESIA: Military officers arbitrarily arrest and torture civilians based on false claims of rebel activity. Torture is used in a widespread way by the police and military against indigenous Papuans... ...

Unconfirmed reports of imminent major security crackdown in West Papua

Unconfirmed reports of imminent major security crackdown in West Papua

Across West Papua, a series of remarkable and disturbing text messages has been circulating the claim that Indonesian security forces are preparing a major security assault across Papua in an operation that allegedly ...

OPM #DRAWING PENCIL ON PAPER by @Aprazola

OPM #DRAWING PENCIL ON PAPER by @Aprazola

Art by Qiyam & Fuad ...

Activist: More than 200 Syrians killed in 3 hours
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Activist: More than 200 Syrians killed in 3 hours

More than 200 killed 700 wounded in mortar and tank shelling in Khaldya neighborhood - Homs. ...

Iraq on the brink of civil war
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Iraq on the brink of civil war

The US government spent over $800 billion and lost approximately the lives of 5,000 US troops in Iraq while fighting the war on terror ...

Who will control the drones watching you?

Who will control the drones watching you?

Whether they are being used for surveillance or all-out combat, drones will soon pose serious risks for all of the world's citizens. ...

West Papua – Behind the Batik Curtain

West Papua – Behind the Batik Curtain

As December 1st, West Papua's Independence Day, approaches, many are becoming concerned about the possibility of serious violence. ...

New Video Of Last Month’s Brutal Crackdown In West Papua
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New Video Of Last Month’s Brutal Crackdown In West Papua

Newly released footage detailing the violent crackdown of the 3rd Papuan People's Congress on October 19th. ...

Rebuttal to U Khin Maung Saw’s Misinformation on Rohingya

Rebuttal to U Khin Maung Saw’s Misinformation on Rohingya

Numerous Crimes Against Humanity have been committed by the Burmese military regime and non-state actors against the Rohingya people ...

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