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Euro-MP backs petition on West Papuan Independence
By http://www.plaidcymru.org/
Oct 29, 2005, 14:17

Hydref 27ain....October 27th 2005

Plaid Cymru Euro-MP Jill Evans has joined calls for the UN to hold an independence referendum in West Papua. This follows Plaid Cymru adopting a policy motion at its recent Annual Conference in Aberystwyth condemning the UN-sponsored 'sham' Act of Free Choice which led to West Papua formally joining Indonesia in 1969.

Jill Evans said:

"The so-called ‘Act of Free Choice’ in West Papua was a sham in which just 1,022 West Papuans hand-picked by the Indonesian military regime were forced to vote for Indonesia - at a cost of more than 100,000 lives and ongoing, systematic, violations of West Papuans' human rights.

"The UN must conduct a review of the whole process under which West Papua was annexed by Indonesia - and conduct a new and genuinely free independence referendum in the province."

Jill Evans has joined parliamentarians and campaigners from around the world in calling on the UN to review the Act of Free Choice - known on West Papua as the 'Act of No Choice' - and bring a halt to human rights violations in West Papua.

Since Indonesia annexed West Papua, at least 100,000 (and as many as 300,000, according to some estimates) indigenous Papuans have been killed by the Indonesian military, and human rights violations - including torture, extra-judicial killings, rape, arbitrary arrest and detention and denial of free assembly and free speech - continue today.

The conflict is intensifying after West Papuans rejected an Indonesian-drafted 'autonomous' status in August. Indonesian troops have poured into West Papua leading to a heightened spate of attacks and villages in recent weeks which have forced 6,000 from their homes.

Plaid Cymru – The Party of Wales has adopted a new policy condemning the UN's role in the Act of Free Choice after members of the Oxford-based Free West Papua Campaign addressed the party's annual conference in Aberystwyth.

Jill Evans added:

"I am delighted the party has decided to campaign for freedom and peace in West Papua. Their struggle, for independence, free speech, democracy and control over their cultural and physical resources, mirrors Plaid Cymru’s campaign for peace, social justice and protecting the environment.”

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