News
Police chiefs under fire as police kill boy and inflame religious tensions
July 20, 2015
A 15 year old boy, Endi Wanimbo, has been shot dead and 11 others injured when police fired on a religious congregation in Karubaga, Tolikara district, West Papua on 17 July. So far no police have been named…
West Papua Freedom Forum held in Darwin, Australia
July 20, 2015
Last week, Free West Papua supporters in Australia gathered together in Darwin to hold a West Papua Freedom Forum, uniting West Papuans, Indigenous nations and non-Indigenous Australians together to meet and plan together on working towards helping to liberate West Papua.
US condemns Indonesian human rights abuses in West Papua
July 13, 2015
The United States Government, through the US State Department has published it’s 2014 Human Rights report on Indonesia in which gross and persistent human rights violations by the Indonesian authorities in West Papua, were exposed in detail and heavily condemned.
Still no justice for Biak Massacre victims
July 6, 2015
On 6 July 1998, West Papuans demonstrating for independence on the island of Biak, West Papua, were murdered by Indonesian military and police and large numbers were detained. Today on the anniversary we remember the victims of those tragic events and repeat our demand for justice.
West Papuan’s parade at Oxford Carnival
July 6, 2015
Yesterday the Free West Papua Campaign once again joined the Cowley Road Carnival in Oxford, United Kingdom along with other West Papuans from the Netherlands.
West Papua makes history with political recognition
June 26, 2015
MEDIA RELEASE 26th of June, 2015 Observer status has today been granted to West Papua by the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) sub-regional bloc. After over 53 years of political struggle for the right to self-determination, the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) representing West Papuan, was today…
Indonesian government cannot stand in way of West Papuan people
June 24, 2015
The only legitimate representatives of West Papua are the West Papuans themselves. For too long, provincial “governors” imposed by Jakarta have engaged in iron fist administration, and not in the interests of the people they purport to represent.
New Caledonian representative supports West Papua joining MSG
June 24, 2015
As the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG)’s meets in the Solomon islands, we are happy to report that the Spokesperson of the Front de Libération Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS), Victor Tutugoro has expressed…
55,000 West Papuans petition Melanesian Foreign Ministers
June 23, 2015
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) today at the invitation of the Chair of the MSG Foreign Ministers meeting, Hon. Milner Tozaka, presented a petition containing 55,555 compiled signatures from West Papua to the Melanesian Foreign Ministers in Honiara, Solomon Islands.
Now is the time for Melanesians to stand as one people
June 18, 2015
United Liberation Movement of West Papua Press Release – Statement – For Immediate Release We come to Honiara today tasked with a mission from the people of a united West Papua to complete our journey for full membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG)i. It is a journey that one…