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Please hear us: Papuan activists in traditional costumes and shirts painted with the colors of 'Morning Star' separatist flag take part in a rally marking the 50th anniversary of failed efforts by Papuan tribal chiefs to declare independence from Dutch colonial rule in 1961, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday. Indonesia took over West Papua from Dutch colonial rule in 1963 and formalized its sovereignty over the region in 1969 through a vote by about 1,000 community leaders, which critics dismissed as a sham. A small, poorly armed separatist movement has battled Indonesian rule ever since.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)