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papua_is_being_ 3 hours ago

> The resistance is ongoing and most of West Papua

I'm unsure if that's an accurate description. I would say it is more accurate to say that West Papua is being genocided. Indigenous West Papuans are being genocided by settlers from Java. More than 500,000 West Papuans have been killed according to estimates by indigenous groups. It is hard to verify since Javanese settlers (Prabowo is Javanese) control the army and no media or journalists, and not even Indonesians are allowed to enter West Papua. This year, thousands of excavators were shipped on barges into West Papua. Western corporations like Freeport McMoran are complicit. It is horrific to see videos that have come out. There is one which I saw, I still get nightmares. It is an indigenous Papuan man being skinned alive in a drum of water. The name that was spread was Defianus Kogoya. It is so sad... West Papua was one of the most beautiful places on this planet with inland seawater lakes that had non-venomous jellyfish in Misool. Cave systems with handprints said to pre-date the Toba erruption. All of this being destroyed.

jesterson 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> I would say it is more accurate to say that West Papua is being genocided

I can just add it has been going on for a while in recent history and noone talks about it.

Gives you opportunity to think how deeply flawed our media is.

cwmoore 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Save the orangutans? or sell more Oreos? Hmmm