Benny Wenda - I am human - just like you..!

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Buchtar Tabuni

Published on Sep 5, 2014 Buchtar Tabuni (born 1979) is a Papuan independence activist and chairman of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB).

Interview with President Fokorus Yaboisembut

Published on Jan 20, 2014
On a recent freedom flotilla reconnaissance mission to West Papua I was blessed to meet a host of staunch Papuans fighting for their independence in a variety of ways. To a background of new year celebrations of fire crackers and feasting on fish and sago, the women and men I interviewed revealed their own experiences under occupation from Indonesia as well as their resolve for freedom...

Gen Goliat Tabuni Speaked for West Papua Independence

Published on Dec 23, 2012
Gen. Goliat Tabuni Speaked for West Papua Independence from Indonesian Colonialism on the event of an oppointment of High Commander of the West Papua National Liberation Army on 11rd Dec 2012 in Tingginambut, Highland of West Papua

Herman Wainggai

Herman Wainggai, as a former political prisoner, has been living in exile in Australia. He is a Visiting Scholar at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, and a leader in West Papua’s self determination struggle, as well as a mentor of the non-violent student’s movement in West Papua.

Mr. Wainggai currently resides in the Washington D.C. area as an international advocate for West Papua with a goal of garnering U.S. support for West Papua’s independence. He has dedicated twenty-five years of his life struggling for West Papua’s independence as a nonviolent political activist, educator, leader and trainer of thousands of university students in the art of Melanesian nonviolent civil resistance.

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Benny Wenda

Benny Wenda is a West Papuan independence leader and an international lobbyist. He lives in exile in the United Kingdom. In 2003 he was granted political asylum by the British Government following his escape from custody while on trial in West Papua.

Early life

As a young child in the 1970s, Benny Wenda’s world was his village in the remote highlands of West Papua. Life consisted of tending gardens with his mother among the Lani people who, he says, ‘lived at peace with nature in the mountains’. In 1977 that life changed dramatically.

That year, the military appeared in his village. Now, every morning on the way to their gardens, Benny and his mother and aunties would be stopped and checked by Indonesian soldiers. Often the soldiers would force the women to wash themselves in the river before brutally raping them in front of their children. Many young women, including three of Benny’s aunties, died in the jungle from the trauma and injuries inflicted during these attacks, which often involved genital mutilation. Every day Papuan women had to report to the military post to provide food from their gardens, and to clean and cook for the soldiers. Violence, racism and enforced subservience became part of daily routine.

I asked myself ‘Why?’ Who are these people? And why do they do this to us? Why do they kill my people? Why do they rape my aunties?

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Victor Yeimo, KNPB Chairman reads an appeal to the international community - October 2012

Published on Oct 1, 2012 Video appeal from Victor Yeimo, Chairman of the KNPB, updating on the deteriorating situation in West Papua.