{"id":68634,"date":"2015-01-17T01:07:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/?p=68634"},"modified":"2015-01-17T01:07:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:07:33","slug":"they-massacred-my-people-they-rape-west-papua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/they-massacred-my-people-they-rape-west-papua\/","title":{"rendered":"They Massacred My People. They Rape West Papua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Papua. Genocide. In this modern age of development and sophistication, the international community barely maintains a sustainable thought for a land colonised by a regional power, Indonesia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>I am <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WestPapua?src=hash\">#WestPapua<\/a>. They massacred my people. They erased my history, confiscated my geography. But my children remember and won&#8217;t ever forget.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 non quis sed quid (@PurePapua) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PurePapua\/status\/551543889149317120\">January 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Papuans, also known as the indigenous Melanesians, are not &#8220;Indonesians&#8221; nor are they from the same racial stock of the Javanese population. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/WO1501\/S00038\/indonesia-paniai-shootings-bring-perpetrators-to-justice.htm\" target=\"_blank\">atrocities<\/a> by both the Indonesian police and military seems to barely affect global politics, much less leave an impact upon the thoughts of the civilised world.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Indonesia targeting West Papuans with mass arrests and home burning \u2013 reports | The Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/tAxb9Ujcg6\">http:\/\/t.co\/tAxb9Ujcg6<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/qKyLqLDvAo\">pic.twitter.com\/qKyLqLDvAo<\/a> \u2014 Zashnain Zainal (@bedlamfury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bedlamfury\/status\/556126149277794304\">January 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Joko Widodo, the president of Indonesia, seems to be more interested in increasing his public profile in West Papua than actually exerting his executive power to enable a <a href=\"http:\/\/akrockefeller.com\/media\/interview-with-a-papuan-political-prisoner-filep-karma\/\" target=\"_blank\">greater voice<\/a> for the Papuans in decision-making or even <a href=\"http:\/\/akrockefeller.com\/region\/pacific\/west-papua\/raise-the-flag-for-west-papua\/\" target=\"_blank\">self-determination<\/a>. Is Joko a smiling-pawn of the military, with no authority to advocate for <a href=\"http:\/\/freewestpapua.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">basic rights and social justice<\/a>? Or perhaps, the government&#8217;s dependency on the multi-billion dollar mining projects in a land that does not belong to the Indonesians?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WestPapua?src=hash\">#WestPapua<\/a> At Least 55 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PoliticalPrisoners?src=hash\">#PoliticalPrisoners<\/a> in Jail As Of December &#8217;14 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ttAsBjvVxe\">http:\/\/t.co\/ttAsBjvVxe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AK Rockefeller (@akrockefeller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akrockefeller\/status\/554463939174871040\">January 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Genocide of indigenous people by Indonesian Military continues in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WestPapua?src=hash\">#WestPapua<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/dRzSLx8dDj\">http:\/\/t.co\/dRzSLx8dDj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Occupy Sydney (@occupySYDNEY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/occupySYDNEY\/status\/555534568602619904\">January 15, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Indonesian military &amp; police torture &amp; kill children in Paniai, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WestPapua?src=hash\">#WestPapua<\/a> &#8211; by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BennyWenda\">@BennyWenda<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/JlfSNmMGUU\">http:\/\/t.co\/JlfSNmMGUU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/YjOjoa3FqC\">pic.twitter.com\/YjOjoa3FqC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AK Rockefeller (@akrockefeller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akrockefeller\/status\/552962246242869248\">January 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>West Papua. The <a href=\"http:\/\/akrockefeller.com\/region\/pacific\/west-papua\/freeport-is-a-symbol-of-everything-that-is-wrong-with-papua\/\" target=\"_blank\">ancient land<\/a> belongs to\u00a0Papuans, their\u00a0home, and home to the largest <a href=\"http:\/\/akrockefeller.com\/news\/big-executive-pay-golden-parachutes-at-freeport-mcmoran\/\" target=\"_blank\">goldmine<\/a> with huge natural gas deposits. Yet its obvious, even to the millions of Indonesians, of their government&#8217;s systematic, institutional rape of land and sea. Of consorting with foreign and local corporations to petrify the soil and destroy the environment, just to fatten Indonesia and fill the national coffers with blood money.<\/p>\n<p>And what of the member states of ASEAN? Are they twiddling their thumbs, to maintain\u00a0respectful silence of non-interference despite knowing of the piling broken, bloodied bodies as a result of Indonesia&#8217;s brutality? What of advocates of human rights in this region, these high-so champions of articulate morality and righteousness, are they blind to the horrors?<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps, we as a whole, fancy the thought of a mighty empire grow on top of a mountain of Papuan skulls?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fmoui.net%2Fblog%2F2015%2F01%2Fthey-massacred-my-people-they-rape-west-papua%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Papua. Genocide. In this modern age of development and sophistication, the international community barely maintains a sustainable thought for a land colonised by a regional power, Indonesia. I am #WestPapua. They massacred my people. They erased my history, confiscated my geography. But my children remember and won&#8217;t ever forget. \u2014 non quis sed quid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":68640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[701,269,290],"class_list":["post-68634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-human-rights","tag-indonesia","tag-west-papua"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angry-protestor-free-west-papua.jpg?fit=672%2C483&ssl=1","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angry-protestor-free-west-papua.jpg?resize=100%2C150&ssl=1",100,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angry-protestor-free-west-papua.jpg?fit=672%2C483&ssl=1",672,483,false]},"categories_names":{"3":{"name":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/blog\/"}},"tags_names":{"701":{"name":"Human Rights","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/human-rights\/"},"269":{"name":"Indonesia","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/indonesia\/"},"290":{"name":"West Papua","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/west-papua\/"}},"comments_number":"7","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angry-protestor-free-west-papua.jpg?resize=100%2C150&ssl=1",100,150,true],"cvmm-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angry-protestor-free-west-papua.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1",300,300,true],"cvmm-medium-plus":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angry-protestor-free-west-papua.jpg?resize=305%2C207&ssl=1",305,207,true],"cvmm-portrait":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angry-protestor-free-west-papua.jpg?resize=400%2C483&ssl=1",400,483,true],"cvmm-medium-square":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angry-protestor-free-west-papua.jpg?resize=600%2C483&ssl=1",600,483,true],"cvmm-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angry-protestor-free-west-papua.jpg?resize=672%2C483&ssl=1",672,483,true],"cvmm-small":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angry-protestor-free-west-papua.jpg?resize=130%2C95&ssl=1",130,95,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angry-protestor-free-west-papua.jpg?fit=672%2C483&ssl=1",672,483,false]},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmP7-hR0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68634"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68643,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68634\/revisions\/68643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}