What can be justified in the name of self-defence?

Ranging across the vast territory of West Papua, 34,000 guerilla soldiers fight the 700,000 strong Indonesian military controlling their sovereign land. In February, these rebels took a New Zealand pilot hostage, threatening to kill him if the Indonesian government ignored their demands for independence. But in this exclusive interview, Jeffrey Bomanak, Chairman of the Free Papua Movement, promises Philip Mehrtens will make it home alive.

After negotiating their freedom with their Dutch colonists, West Papuans discovered the United States had used their land to bribe Indonesia into joining the capitalist economic order in 1963. The Free West Papua Movement (OPM, Organisasi Papua Merdeka) sprung up in resistance and has been fighting ever since. Jeffrey explains how their land was used as a pawn in a battle between world orders, the “genocide” of Papuans at the hands of the Indonesian government, and why organisations like the UN ignore the desperate plea of the Papuan people to maintain their colonial oversight.

00:00 Intro
02:31 Introduction to OPM
04:30 Why Indonesia was given West Papua
09:38 The New York Agreement and the Act of Free Choice
13:38 The Free Papua Movement
16:43 West Papua's resources
18:36 Military and Guerilla Operations
22:18 Genocide
28:28 How they get away with it
31:25 The hostage, Philip Mehrtens
36:30 Fighting the system, not people

🔴 Free West Papua: [ Ссылка ]

🌎 Support Planet: Critical: [ Ссылка ]
🌎 Subscribe: [ Ссылка ]
🌎 Twitter: [ Ссылка ]

#FreeWestPapua #ecocrisis #colonialism #OPM

свернуть