Freeport mine in West Papua has been shut down by local Papuans-is a hoax

Re: [wp] West Papuans shut down Freeport mine fPcN forums

Subject: Re: [wp] West Papuans shut down Freeport mine Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:58:14 +0200 References: <BAY134-F39598049008DA97C736B61A06C0@phx.gbl> We are not in the business of telling lies, as many West Papuans know very well, since our work for them, of more than 15 years will testify. There is no need to be so unfriendly, we am merely reporting what has been reported, see here: http://www.paleomining.org/2007/03/28/ papuans-shut-down-freeport-mine/ If it's lies, we apologise and tell the website owner: Registrant Name:SMILE Group Registrant Organization:SMILE Group Yogyakarta Registrant Street1:Jl. Prof. Dr. Sardjito No. 24 Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:Yogyakarta Registrant State/Province:Yogyakarta Registrant Postal Code:55000 Registrant Country:ID Registrant Phone:+62.274589493 Registrant Phone Ext.: Registrant FAX: Registrant FAX Ext.: Registrant Email:info@smilejogja.com Admin ID:DI_3770692 Admin Name:SMILE Group Admin Organization:SMILE Group Yogyakarta Admin Street1:Jl. Prof. Dr. Sardjito No. 24 Admin Street2: Admin Street3: Admin City:Yogyakarta Admin State/Province:Yogyakarta Admin Postal Code:55000 Admin Country:ID Admin Phone:+62.274589493 Admin Phone Ext.: Admin FAX: Admin FAX Ext.: Admin Email:info@smilejogja.com Tech ID:DI_3770692 Tech Name:SMILE Group Tech Organization:SMILE Group Yogyakarta Tech Street1:Jl. Prof. Dr. Sardjito No. 24 Tech Street2: Tech Street3: Tech City:Yogyakarta Tech State/Province:Yogyakarta Tech Postal Code:55000 Tech Country:ID Tech Phone:+62.274589493 Tech Phone Ext.: Tech FAX: Tech FAX Ext.: Tech Email:info@smilejogja.com Name Server:NS1.ISNAINI.COM Name Server:NS2.ISNAINI.COM fPcN On 29 Mar 2007, at 03:02, hendrick ajamiseba wrote: STOP SPREADING LIES! NO SUCH ACTION HAS TAKEN PLACE, YET! FREEPORT MINE IS STILL IN OPERATION. DON'T JUMP THE GUN! PERHAPS SOMETHING TO THIS TUNE (BLOCKADING THE FREEPORT MINE) MIGHT TAKE PLACE IN THE NEAR FUTURE...WAIT AND SEE...UNTIL THEN STOP SPREADING LIES! FROM TIMIKA, WEST PAPUA HENDRICK C. AJAMISEBA From: fPcN forums s To: Melanesia Group , West Papua List , Free West Papua Campaign Subject: [wp] West Papuans shut down Freeport mine Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:33:33 +0200 The Freeport mine in West Papua has been shut down by local Papuans since Tuesday. Over 400 Papuans are blockading the road to the mine and the pipelines have ben sabotaged making the local river system run clean for the first time in 30 years! Fore more see: http://www.fpcn-global.org/?q=node/627 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- The Forum for 'friends of Peoples close to Nature' is a movement of groups and individuals, concerned with the survival of Tribal peoples and their culture, in particular hunter-gatherers. These were the first and are the last societies on earth to have a non-exploitative relationship with the natural word. Our task is to help them preserve their unique cultures from enforced assimilation, alien religions, the ideologies of 'progress' and 'growth' and absorption into the global economy. fPcN interCultural: http://www.fPcN-global.org/ Secure email: @hush.ai (only really secure if both use hushmail.com) enquire P/GPG keys available ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------

The Freeport mine in West Papua has been shut down by local Papuans since Tuesday.

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JAYAPURA The Freeport mine in West Papua has been shut down by local Papuans since Tuesday.

Over 400 Papuans are blockading the road to the mine and the pipelines have been sabotaged making the local river system run clean for the first time in 30 years!

This is in response to an attack by police on Tuesday who shot at local on Freeport land trying to remove them.

One of those attacked has now died in hospital.

The locals are now declaring they will keep the mine closed until Indonesia and Freeport leave West Papua.

There are also reports of sabotage inside the mine itself by Papuan employees whilst Papuan students in Jakarta showed solidarity by invading the Freeport offices there and smashing the windows and the offices. 13 students have been arrested.

This is an amazing response by the Papuans. There is fear of reprisals by the army and police and fear of torture for those arrested. You can show solidarity with the Papuans by phoning Freeport/RTZ offices or phoning the police and army in Jakarta and/or Timika (the Freeport area). Show them the world is watching and demand that force not be used against the Papuans.
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West Papuans Close Mine, Jakarta Students Smash Mine Offices

Wednesday, March 28 2007 @ 05:06 PM PDT Contributed by: Anonymous Views: 139 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070328170635180 The Freeport mine in West Papua has been shut down by local Papuans since Tuesday. Over 400 Papuans are blockading the road to the mine and the pipelines have been sabotaged making the local river system run clean for the first time in 30 years! West Papuans Close Mine, Jakarta Students Smash Mine Offices The Freeport mine in West Papua has been shut down by local Papuans since Tuesday. Over 400 Papuans are blockading the road to the mine and the pipelines have been sabotaged making the local river system run clean for the first time in 30 years! This is in response to an attack by police on Tuesday who shot at local on Freeport land trying to remove them. One of those attacked has now died in hospital. The locals are now declaring they will keep the mine closed until Indonesia and Freeport leave West Papua. There are also reports of sabotage inside the mine itself by Papuan employees whilst Papuan students in Jakarta showed solidarity by invading the Freeport offices there and smashing the windows and the offices. 13 students have been arrested. This is an amazing response by the Papuans. There is fear of reprisals by the army and police and fear of torture for those arrested. You can show solidarity with the Papuans by phoning Freeport/RTZ offices or phoning the police and army in Jakarta and/or Timika (the Freeport area). Show them the world is watching and demand that force not be used against the Papuans. WEST PAPUA: Dying to be free By Richard Samuelson, Co-Director of the Free West Papua Campaign Green World (Winter/Spring 2007) [Journal of the UK Green Party] IMAGINE A COUNTRY under military occupation: Palestine? A country whose occupiers deny its people the right to choose their own identity and culture: Tibet? Where the occupiers have murdered at least 10% of the population in an orgy of genocidal bloodshed: Armenia? Where the people are subjected to daily racist abuse, intimidation and violence: apartheid South Africa? Where a brutal military rules every aspect of daily life with an iron fist: Burma? Where indigenous civilisations and the species-rich rainforests they call home are being bulldozed by Western and Chinese greed for timber, gas, copper and gold: Brazil? And whose suffering the British, American and other Western governments shamefully choose to ignore to protect their own selfish interests: Chechnya? Now imagine a country where all of this is true: West Papua. Have you ever met a West Papuan? Probably not. Indonesia doesn’t want you to. Otherwise you may discover the bloody secrets of its 43 year long occupation. The generals in Jakarta who still wield the real power in Indonesia despite the façade of democracy which is the current civilian government, don’t want you to know the truth. They don’t want you to know the shameful way they annexed West Papua in the 1960’s by holding a sham referendum, cruelly named the “Act of Free Choice”, by hand-picking 1,026 Papuan “representatives” and telling them that if they voted for independence instead of rule by Indonesia they would have their tongues cut out. They don’t want you to know that their “glorious heroes”, the Indonesian military, have slaughtered at least 100,000 West Papuan women, men and children and raped and tortured countless others. And our Foreign & Commonwealth Office doesn’t want you to know that Britain not only actively colluded with Indonesia in the 1960’s to ensure that the “Act of Free Choice” was never challenged in the UN, but has supported Indonesia’s illegal occupation ever since. As one of Indonesia’s major foreign investors (BP is developing a natural gas field off the Papuan coast and Rio Tinto holds a share in the huge Freeport gold and copper mine in the Papuan Highlands), Britain knows when it is politic to keep silent. To keep their secrets safe, the Indonesian Government bans foreign journalists and human rights observers from West Papua. Very few Papuans ever make it out. That is until now. Three years ago, for the first time ever, a West Papuan independence leader, Benny Wenda, escaped from an Indonesian prison, trekked for weeks through the jungle and eventually made it across the border into Papua New Guinea. From there, he flew to Heathrow to claim asylum and carry on the struggle for freedom from Britain. His predecessor as leader had not been as fortunate. Theys Eluay was strangled to death by Indonesian Special Forces in 2001. Operating from Oxford, Benny Wenda is now telling West Papua’s story to university, political, trade union, environmental, human rights and religious groups across Britain and beyond, starting the journey of turning support for his people’s cause into the sort of real political pressure which can change even the most fossilised government policy. Remember that not even Thatcher’s determination in the 1980’s to “preserve British interests in South Africa”, could withstand the grass-roots anti-apartheid pressure for Britain to support majority rule. In 2005 Benny Wenda was invited to address the Green Party Conference. Shortly afterwards support for a genuine act of self-determination for the West Papuans became official Green Party policy. And in December 2006, Caroline Lucas MEP issued a Written Declaration on West Papua in the European Parliament and the Papuans’ Green friends in Oxford City Council voted to fly the banned West Papuan flag from the roof of Oxford Town Hall. Now imagine a free country with her people living in peace, her culture respected and Nature revered. You have glimpsed West Papua’s future -- but it cannot happen without you. For more information on the Free West Papua Campaign and to invite Benny Wenda to speak to your group about his people’s freedom struggle, visit www.freewestpapua.org or e-mail Richard Samuelson on samoxen@dsl.pipex.com