West Papua Longing For Freedom: Merdeka

West Papua Longing For Freedom: Merdeka   West Papua- Formerly Dutch New Guinea- is the western half of the island of New Guinea. It is separated from the North of Australia by Torres' Strait and the Arafura Sea.   The indigenous people of West Papua have been dispossessed of their ancestral lands. More than three hundred thousand have been killed. Thousands of others have been raped and tortured. Food gardens are destroyed, and the village-lifestyle obliterated.   West Papuans are racially...

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