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'West Papua Is Your Inconvenient Truth' Green Party Protest
'West Papua Is Your Inconvenient Truth'
Green
Party Protest at Indonesian Embassy
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By Mark P. Williams
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Today the Green Party hosted a protest outside the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Wellington. MP Catherine Delahunty led representatives from the Green Party and Mana Party in delivering a letter to the Embassy calling for an urgent peace process between the Indonesian Government and a movement towards self-determination for the people of West Papua.
The protesters gave an impassioned call for an end to colonial domination, comparing the current political situation to Apartheid South Africa and and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Catherine Delahunty said that she would be raising the West Papua issue in Parliament and urged other groups across New Zealand to lend their support. She called West Papua an 'inconvenient truth' for Indonesia and for the New Zealand government.
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Mark P. Williams
Political Journalist and Independent Academic Researcher
Journalist and independent academic researcher with primary interests in politics and literature.
As a researcher I am a contributor to various academic publications, including Alluvium journal of 21st century literature, The Literary London Journal, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, and Critical Engagements: Journal of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies (UKNMFS).
As a journalist, I have worked as Parliamentary reporter for Scoop Independent Media and International editor for the Scoop Review of Books.
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