West Papuan freedom fighter blocked
from NZ Parliament
The Australia West Papua
Association is greatly concerned that a democratic country
like New Zealand is not allowing West Papuan leader Benny
Wenda to speak at its Parliament House.
Joe Collins of
AWPA said this is the second time in just over a week that
Indonesian has tried to block the issue of West Papua being
raised. After showing the documentary "Goodbye Indonesia,"
about West Papua on Aljazeera TV, Aljazeera responded to
pressure from the Indonesian Government by adding comments
and responses by the Indonesian Government at the end of the
film. And now we have the NZ Government also bowing to
pressure from the Indonesian Government by not allowing
Benny Wenda to speak at Parliament House. It looks like
trade again trumps human
rights.
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