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In the 1950's the US government declared Indonesian President Sukarno an
enemy of the US state and begun paying the Indonesian military.
In 1961 the Indonesian military invade the Dutch protectorate of West Papua,
and the US threatens trade sanctions against the Dutch and Australians if
they object to the invasion and occupation.
In 1965 a General Suharto seizes power and starts putting to death tens of
thousands of pro-democracy advocates; the US provides training, weapons,
and compiles lists of suspected "Communist" operatives. Torture is routine
and death squads murder at will from 500,000 to more than one million, with
750,000 political prisoners. General Suharto's military regime rule for the
next thirty years, while still receiving US military aid.

In 1967 the United States gains exclusive mining rights in West Papua,
removes the local population and opens the worlds largest gold and copper
mine which still exports to the United States in 2003. Without doubt every
American would know the name of the worlds largest gold & copper mine, and
the country in which people are still routinly tortured and killed to
maintain it; yet the US media remains silent for over thirty five years.

In 1975 only hours after Pres. Ford and Henry Kissinger leave Jakarta,
Indonesia invades East Timor with US blessings, after nearly twenty five
years of occupation n 1999 a vote is allowed; with Indonesian military
watching over 90% of the population risk their lives to vote, three
quarters vote for independence. In the aftermath, the Indonesian military
and militia burn the Capital, Dili, and the country's infrastructure to the
ground. Thosands are slaughter.

In July 1998 proof reaches the West that the Indonesian authorities had
massacre over 150 people in the West Papuan town of Biak for raising a West
Papuan flag (the "Morning Star", single star on red left field with blue
and white stripes on the right).
Indonesian Defence Minister General Wiranto, denounced the flag-raising as a
"revolt against the government" and sent in troops from Ambon island to
conduct the slaughter. Soldiers opened fire on a crowd, hauled residents
from their homes, beat and tortured scores of people, including children;
later naval gunships dumped the bodies at sea.
But this time, outside witnesses were able to report the event, two
Australian aid workers, Rebecca Casey and Paul Meixner, interviewed
survivors and took photographs and video footage of the scene of the
shootings.

In 2000, a Swiss reporter saw first hand an Indonesian jail in West Papua,
 http://www.nzz.ch/dossiers/2001/westpapua/2000.12.22-engl-article72F07.html

In 2001 the U.S. decide to continue military aid to Indonesia; so too does
the gold & copper continue to flow to the US.
East Timor was the second shame Australia had to bear; West Papua is the
original, the point at which we bent to US will and turned our backs upon
human right & wrong. I ask all Australians to handle humanitarian issues in
order and put the West Papuan issue first. We should have taken the issue
to the UN over thirty years ago, people & cultures & environments are
dieing.

reference documents include:
 http://www.american.edu/TED/IRIAN.HTM
 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cline/papua/core.htm
 http://www.eco-action.org/opm/
 http://www.converge.org.nz/wpapua/
 http://www.house.gov/faleomavaega/ST-papua.htm
 http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa52039.000/hfa52039_0.htm#12
 http://usembassy-australia.state.gov/hyper/2001/0226/epf113.htm
  refer: indiscriminate, shooting of civilians, torture, rape, beatings and
other abuse
 http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/ea/timor/pick909.htm
  refer: Irian Jaya at bottom of page
 http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS10941
 http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/guilfoyl/irpar.html
 http://www.nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/9407/0212.html
 http://www.byuh.edu/library/pacislands/melan/IrianJaya.html
 http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/ej/ejassign8.htm
 http://www.american.edu/TED/ice/jayamine.htm
 http://maroon.loyno.edu/041400/editorials/letter1.html
 http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/frus/summaries/950306_FRUS_XXIII_1961-63.html