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About WestPAN Canada

Submitted by Gordon Douglas on January 26, 2005 - 18:09.
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Based in Canada, WESTPAN is an informal network of individuals concerned about injustice in West Papua, and the associated destruction of unique cultures and rare ecosystems. Collaborating with other organizations that support WESTPAN goals, our key objectives are to:

1. Support the West Papuan peoples' struggle to regain their fundamental human rights, including the right of self-determination. WESTPAN takes no position for or against independence but supports the aspirations of the West Papuan people to decide their own future.

Interview Files

Submitted by Gordon Douglas on November 11, 2011 - 01:29.
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Making a Tragic Mistake in Indonesia

Submitted by Tani Amemori on May 17, 2005 - 17:39.
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By Edmund McWilliams

Is the United States making the same mistakes in its search for partners in the "war on terror" as it did during the Cold War? During that earlier global conflict, the United States pursued alliances with governments, militaries and rebel groups, even those whose policies and activities were in conflict with core American values and the goals we professed to be promoting in our struggle against the Soviet Union. The list of unsavory regimes Washington courted and counted as allies is long and notorious. It includes the merely corrupt, such as the Marcos kleptocracy in the Philippines, as well as some which were savagely brutal, such as Shah Pahlevi's dictatorship in Iran. Some, such as Indonesia's despotic Suharto regime, were both corrupt and brutal.

About West Papua

Submitted by Gordon Douglas on January 26, 2005 - 18:17.
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West Papua is located just north of Australia and west of Papua New Guinea. A former Dutch colony, West Papua came under Indonesian control in the 1960s after the implementation of a controversial `referendum'.

For more than forty-five years, the people of West Papua have suffered ongoing human rights abuses, ecological destruction and democratic violations at the hands of the Indonesian military and as a result of Indonesian state policies. The Indonesian forces have terrorised the civilian population and thousands have been killed, tortured and/or jailed through extra-judicial actions. In an effort to address these grave injustices WestPAN (West Papua Action Network) was formed. Read more about Canada's WestPAN at about us.

For a more complete overview of events leading up to situation in West Papua, download our Fact Sheet (PDF - 260KB)