Papuan Struggle Enters New Phase: 20,000 Indigenous Papuans March On Capital

Papuan Struggle Enters New Phase: 20,000 Indigenous Papuans March On Capital   Yesterday (July 9, 2010) twenty thousand indigenous Papuans many in indigenous dress, walked and danced their way through the streets from Kotaraja to the city centre in Jayapura. Shops shut in the busy student suburb of Abepura and in the downtown business centre, unwittingly turning the march into a strike. Thousands more converged on the Provincial Parliament building in the capital, occupying it...

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