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Video Testimony of Torture Victim Tunaliwor Kiwo
Video Testimony of Kiwo (Subtitle – English) From Dewan Adat Papua via EngageMedia.org In this video West Papuan farmer Tunaliwor Kiwo recounts the details of his torture by Indonesian soldiers on May...
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DAP leader rejects police moves to question him
Bintang Papua, 11 January 2011 Forkorus Yaboisembut, the chairman of the Papuan Indigenous Council, DAP has reported that two members of the police force came to visit him at 2pm the previous day,...
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Statement from Forkorus Yaboisembut, Chair of the Papuan Customary Council to...
Statement from Forkorus Yaboisembut, Chair of the Papuan Customary Council to West Papua Media Alerts by sms on 12 January 2011: “Problems of mutual suspicion between families [created as a result of...
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DAP: Transmigration harmful to local people
JUBI,16 February 2011 Responding to a report that the government plans to send more transmigrants to Papua, the chairman of DAP, Dewan Adat Papua, Forkorus Yoboisembut said this was a serious matter...
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DAP: Papua on the brink of genocide
JUBI, 4 March 2011 The chairman of DAP, the Papuan Traditional Council, Forkorus Yaboisembut, is reported as saying that the process of elimination of the Melanesian Race which is currently turning the...
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DAP wants dialogue, not constructive communcations
Image via Wikipedia JUBI, 4 March 2011 Responding to recent moves to hold a dialogue between Jakarta and Papua, the chairman of DAP, the Papuan Traditional Council, Forkorus Yaboisembut, said that...
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Papuan churches call for dialogue mediated by third party
Bintang Papua, 11 March 2011 The leaders of a number of churches in Papua have called on the central government to hold a dialogue with indigenous Papuans, stressing that it should be mediated by a...
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Third Grand Papua Congress to be held this year
Bintang Papua, 22 August 2011 A national reconciliation team of the West Papuan people consisting of a number of organisations that have been outspoken in their views about the problems of the...
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DAP chairman says Third Congress decisions should be accepted by the...
Bintang Papua, 10 October 2011 According to Forkorus Yaboisembut, chairman of DAP, the Dewan Adat Papua, the forthcoming Third Papuan Congress will result in decisions that will express the true...
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Third Papuan Congress to go ahead despite efforts to obstruct it
(Note – the Congress is currently underway, more reports to come) Bintang Papua, 14 October 2011 [Abridged in translation by TAPOL] Although the Third Papuan Congress is due to start in two days time,...
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