Dear friends,
We wrote to you recently with the tragic news of mass killings
of West Papuans by the Indonesian security forces. Since then, at
least five more people have been killed, and the chair of the West
Papua National Committee has been arrested. We also have detailed
and disturbing reports of arrests and torture of peaceful
demonstrators calling for an end to the violence and re-iterating
their demands for the right to self-determination.
Friends, we need your help now more than ever. Please take a
moment to sign this
petition calling for an end to the military offensive taking
place in West Papua. Some of the latest news and videos can be
found at West
Papua Media Alerts.
If you have a further five minutes we would encourage you to
write to your MP asking for their support for an end to the
violence and for them to join the International Parliamentarians
for West Papua - a growing number of parliamentarians around the
world supporting the right to self-determination. You can find
details for your MP here and
of the IPWP here.
Please respond to my people's cry...thank you.
Benny Wenda
West Papuan independence leader and chairman of the Koteka
Tribal Assembly