West Papua Information Kit |
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To promote Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights
by giving you information with which to end the colonial rape of a beloved nation. |
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== new page Saturday 6 June 2015 == the below text is in mid-cut & pasting == I've been trying to simplify the front page.
In 1935 the Shell company was granted an exploration license but it allowed Standard Oil (Rockefeller family) to buy a 60% interest and when it discovered that West Papua had the world's richest gold and copper deposits in a mountain their geologist called Ertsberg (Mountain of Ore) the company concealed the discovery and geology reports from the government. Twenty three years later in March 1959 the Dutch began searching to identify which mountain was the source of gold seen across the southern beaches of West New Guinea; then, in August 1959 an American company Freeport Sulphur flew Forbes Wilson to establish a claim on the Ertsberg area as a "possible copper reserve" instead of admiting knowledge of the previous surveys. Freeport was a joint interest between the Rockellers and Robert Lovett who was the grandson of the Union Pacific empire, a bonesman, a founding partner in the infamous Brown Brothers Harriman private bank, the man who with fellow bonesman Harvey Bundy converted Corporate America to World War II war production, who then served as the US deputy Secretary of State, and then as Secretary of Defense; and is often credited as the architect of the Cold War. Inside the United States Department of State plans were proposed for misusing the United Nations as a tool to in effect sell the people of West Papua to Indonesia. Although it is not legally possible to trade people or a colony, it is possible for the United Nations to accept responsibility and to begin sending its choice of foreign powers to occupy (administrate) a colony. The Dutch tried to evade the American ambitions and prepared an application to the UN General Assembly in 1961, but the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was killed eight days before the Assembly's vote which without benefit of Hammarskjold's advice did not provide the 2/3rd majority support that the Dutch motion required. An opposing motion which the U.S. had secretly written and asked another member to present asking the Assembly to instead send a committee to West Papua and report back to the Assembly the following year also failed. A text from AWPA facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AustraliaWestPapuaAssociation/permalink/712300878803581/ How to free West Papua:Get Ban Ki-moon or any member of the United Nations to add the issue of West Papua (General Assembly resolution 1752) to the agenda of the Trusteeship Council. Doing so will resume the de-colonization of West Papua in accord with article 76 of the UN Charter and under Gen' Ass' res. 1514 (XV). In 1961 a scheme to make West Papua an United Nations trust territory was promoted within the US government, see http://history.state.gov/historicaldoc?/frus1961-63v23/d155? see http://history.state.gov/historicaldocu?/frus1961-63v23/d160 The International Trusteeship System, requires a written proposal or "agreement" to be signed by the occupying power and then to be approved by the General Assembly. see http://un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter12.shtml The Netherlands wanted to make West Papua a trust territory but Indonesia only wanted to "use the hand of the United Nations", see http://history.state.gov/historicaldocu?/frus1961-63v23/d172 President Kennedy did not know about the gold but he was being pressured by talk of Soviet influence and by desire to get Indonesia to return a CIA pilot who had been sentenced to death in 1959 and the papers has was carrying, see http://history.state.gov/historicaldocu?/frus1961-63v23/d153 From April to July 1962 the US held secret negotiations with the Netherlands and Indonesia about the text of the agreement which was then signed and put on the agenda of the General Assembly. Members of the General Assembly were given a proposed text for a resolution on 20 September and on 21 September they voted in support of making General Assembly resolution 1752 (XVII). It is the General Assembly resolution and the UN Charter (article 76) which binds our nations to the legal duty to "promote" the "self-government or independence" of trust territories. The agreement is only a promise but the UN Charter is international law. The reason West Papua is not on the public list of trust territories published by the UN Trusteeship Council is because the UN Secretary General still has not told that Council about General Assembly resolution 1752. For the United Nations Trusteeship Council to begin its legal duties under articles 85, 87, 88 of the UN Charter the issue of General Assembly resolution 1752 (West Papua) must be put on the agenda of the Trusteeship Council. West Papua has been a trust territory ever since the General Assembly made resolution 1752, and ALL of our governments still have a legal DUTY to "promote" the "self-government or independence" and other rights of West Papua. That is the legal truth, but to get our governments to admit that truth West Papua needs to get one of our governments or Ban Ki-moon himself to put resolution 1752 on the agenda of the Trusteeship Council... Who is against West Papua? Those who publicly oppose a free West Papua, and those who oppose a free West Papua behind closed doors. Each of us only knows what our own intentions are, we can not know if somebody who in public says they support freedom for West Papua is in fact being paid by Indonesia or its business partners to mis-direct the efforts of the Free West Papua community... This is not the time to be quite, this is the time to step forward and campaign, real change can be achieved - even if you do not convince your own gov't to send the missing agenda item you can tell the news media your plan for ending the genocide or other abuse in West Papua; and I suggest the best most direct means is to publicly call on Ban Ki-moon to add the missing item to the Trusteeship Council's agenda.. |
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