Abstract
The soul of Papua is divided. Separated by an arbitrary line established during the early colonial period, the communities in the west are now regarded as part of Indonesia and live under military oppression described by legal scholars and human rights advocates as systematic terror and alleged genocide whilst those in the east enjoy their legitimate freedom and independence. This paper revisits the creation of Indonesia after the Pacific War with the training, resources, and Fascist ideology of the Japanese Imperial Army and how it has maintained control of the archipelago to the present day. With a focus on West Papua it asserts that the people of this island archipelago have been denied their rightful independence. As a result of multiple breaches of the Charter of the United Nations covertly orchestrated by the United Nations Secretariat in collusion with Sukarno the people of West Papua were illegally transferred to Indonesia. It is advanced that the method of maintaining control over West Papua and the entire Indonesian archipelago is via a systematic programme of military oppression perpetrated by a neo-fascist military dictatorship on behalf of the US government.
Highlights
Separated by an arbitrary line established during the early colonial period—dissecting language groups, tribal lands, gardens, and villages—the people to the west of this line are regarded as Indonesian and live under a military dictatorship described by legal scholars and human rights advocates as systemic terror and alleged genocide while those people to the east of this line enjoy freedom within the independent state of Papua New Guinea
This paper examines why the people in the western side of the island were denied independence under the United Nations (UN) system of decolonisation whilst those in the east gained independence
After the United Nations takeover in September 1962, and more so under Indonesian occupation from May 1963, the people of West Papua were subjected to Indonesian military oppression including mass murder, starvation, terror, and torture—mass human rights violations that meet the definition of genocide under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Brundige et al 2004; Wing & King 2004; Elmslie & Webb-Gannon 2013)
Summary
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