Some people in Indonesia seem to support colonialism, and some claim the circumstance of the American Indian and Australian aboriginals justifies colonial rule by the Indonesian military in West Papua.

But, the Indonesian colonial claim to came AFTER global agreement to end colonization (UN charter in 1945), after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948); and the US deal for the Dutch to sell the people of Papua to Indonesia (in 1962) came AFTER the UN resolutions 1514 and 1541. Under 1514 every colony was entitled to IMMEDIATE self-determination, and 1541 gave definitions for what a colony and self-determination were.

Dear Poirot,

Thanks for your website.
It confirms what I'm finding.

Dear Daeron,

Thanks also for the site you've given.
Its much appreciated.

I don't know where the answers lie on how
to improve things, and what we can actually
do except place pressure on our government
when the opportunities arise. If anyone has
any better ideas, I'd like to hear them.

Sadly Foxy, Australia and PNG are the two governments which will not help West Papua because our politicians are scared out of their minds by the size of Indonesia's population.

There are politicians in Ireland, the US, and mostly Green politicians in several other countries who have spoken and tried to help West Papua during the pass ten years; but it's the United Nations which is meant to be dealing with the international issue of colonies. But Indonesia is on the UN Decolonization committee. The easiest solution is if the UN General Assembly supports a motion asking the International Court (ICJ) to give it's advisory opinion about the New York Agreement, and about whether West Papua is a colony.

Dear Daeron,

Thanks for clarifying things for me.

It appears that small fish don't have
that much power in the large political ocean.

I know, coming from a Lithuanian background.
The veil of silence that shrouded the tragedy
of the Baltic Nations in both the East and the West.
The policy of Western democracies, although
formally was one of non-recognition of the Soviet
occupation of the Baltic Nations, the reality as
the people found out the hard way was a different
story. Western democracies did not want to "offend"
the Soviet Union. They closed their eyes and ears to
the suffering of the Baltic people.

This attitude prevailed up to the 1990s. Lithuanian
President, Vytautas Landsbergis was told to
"negotiate" that "unruly Lithuanians should respect
and follow orderly Soviet constitutional procedures."
And this despite the fact that the world recognised
that Lithuania was illegally incorporated into the
Soviet Union. In other words, that Lithuania was not
seeking to establish independence. It was seeking to
restore an independent nation that was illegally
suppressed by a foreign power and its army.

As President V. Landsbergis pointed out, "This was not
a legal nicety but the basic and non-negotiable premise
of the March 11th 1990 declaration of independence."
But, President Landsbergis was still urged by the West,
"To find, a fair and objective way out!" And as he
continually confirmed, "the offered solutions were neither
fair nor objective!"

Nothing it seems has changed in the Western powers'
attitude towards the smaller nations.

Foxy, this mouse is on the attack ;-)

Please see what you think of this
http://www.petitiononline.com/voice4wp