West Papua: Australia’s backyard ‘genocide’ continues

By Hilda Wayne In a village in West Papua, a young Benny Wenda watched as Indonesian military forced his Melanesian aunties to wash themselves by the river ‘ to clean themselves up’ before they were raped. One of Benny’s aunts had her baby ripped from her arms and thrown to the ground before she, the mother, was also raped. Both baby and mother sustained fatal injuries. They died. Severe internal injuries were what eventually killed the West Papuan father of Wiwince Pigome, sustained many years before at the hands of the Indonesian military. Wiwince’s family were from Wamena and her Continue reading West Papua: Australia’s backyard ‘genocide’ continues

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Manus: What price national pride?

By Susan Merrell  (edited and re-published) The bilateral PNG solution to Australia’s refugee problem is wrong on so many levels, Papua New Guinea (PNG) is becoming, along with the asylum seekers, just collateral damage in a cynical political manoeuvre – where ‘the end justifies the means’ is the cynical catchcry even as people die. But whereas the asylum seekers have their global advocates, not much has been written from the perspective of PNG.  Back in July 2013, I looked at this… …from the point of view of the independent nation/state of Papua New Guinea   And he sold our reputation, Continue reading Manus: What price national pride?

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