West Papua: Banned Flag on Independence Day
The Indonesian Human Rights Committee plans to celebrate West Papua Independence Day on 1 December 2007 with the raising of the flag, despite its ban by
Below is an article published by Scoop World :
December 1 [2007], is the day West Papuan people mark their “Independence Day”. It is the anniversary of the day in 1961, when the process of decolonisation from Dutch rule had begun and the people first raised their own flag and sang their own anthem. Around the world the day is marked with symbolic flag raising events, but now in Indonesian controlled
The Indonesia Human Rights Committee plans to mark the day with a Human Rights seminar looking at parallels in the human rights problems of West Papua, The Philippines Aotearoa and
The seminar will be proceeded by a symbolic flag raising outside the Army Headquarters, Great North Rd Grey Lynn. The location highlights the IHRC’s opposition to