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Indonesia arrests Papuan independence figure for treason
Mr Victor Yeimo has been accused by Indonesian police of being the mastermind behind civil unrest in Papua and of committing treason. PHOTO: VICTOR YEIMO/TWITTER
PublishedMay 11, 2021, 5:00 am SGT
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Indonesian authorities have arrested Papuan independence leader Victor Yeimo over accusations that he orchestrated some of the most serious civil unrest in decades that broke out in 2019, police said on Monday.
Tension has reignited in recent weeks in Indonesia’s easternmost provinces, with President Joko Widodo calling for a crackdown after a senior intelligence figure was shot dead late last month, and with an additional 400 troops deployed there.
Yeimo, 38, who is the international spokesman of the West Papua National Committee, was arrested in the provincial capital of Jayapura on Sunday and is being questioned, said national police spokesman Iqbal Alqudusy.
The local West Papua action group in Dunedin has met Taieri MP Ingrid Leary and raised human rights and militarisation issues that members believe the New Zealand government should be pursuing with Indonesia.
Leary has a strong track record on Pacific human rights issues having worked in Fiji as a television journalist and educator and as a NZ regional director of the British Council with a mandate for Pacific cultural projects.
She is also sits on the parliamentary select committees for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, and Finance and Expenditure.
Leary met local coordinator Barbara Frame, retired Methodist pastor Ken Russell, and two doctoral candidates on West Papua research projects at Otago University’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPCS), Ashley McMillan and Jeremy Simons, at her South Dunedin electorate office on Friday.
In Exile, an Icon of the West Papuan Independence Struggle Fades
Benny Wenda has been a fierce advocate for the West Papuan cause. Why is it, then, that the proclamation of his presidency has been met with marked skepticism within West Papua?
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January 29, 2021
Benny Wenda meets with Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne and Jennifer Robinson of International Lawyers for West Papua, at Parliament House in Australia, February 13, 2013.
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In December 2020, Benny Wenda told TIME Magazine, “I’m on a mission. I’ll finish my mission and then I will rest.” Wenda, an activist for Papuan independence, was declared president of the Provisional Government of West Papua in a statement released by the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) on December 1. Wenda was appointed president in exile by a secret congress, on the anniversary of West Papua’s declaration of independence in 1961.
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73 of an intake of 1200 cadets at West Point cheat in a calculus online exam. That s 6%.
Wikipedia says Candidates for admission must apply directly to the academy and receive a nomination, usually from a member of Congress. Other nomination sources include the president and vice president ! The academic program grants a bachelor of science degree. Cadets are required to adhere to the Cadet Honor Code, which states that a cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United States Military Academy
The worst scandal in 45 years!
I wonder how many of these cheats debasing university qualifications and heading for high office in the US military were nominated by Republicans, and how many by Democrats?