tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post115824605295483523..comments2024-01-03T07:56:32.311-05:00Comments on quaker oats live: darfurAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07488876505679035140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-57804018123431199652007-03-18T01:12:00.000-04:002007-03-18T01:12:00.000-04:00Genocide is about denial, a society which decides ...Genocide is about denial, a society which decides some ethnic group is sub-human and should be denied life or escape.<BR/><BR/>In January 1961 West New Guinea elected a national Parliament and soon declared itself as West Papua,<BR/><BR/> instead a 1962 Cold War deal sold West Papua to Indonesia,<BR/> May 1 1963 Indonesia’s military took control,<BR/> Sept 5 1963 Indonesia declared it a “quarantine territory”,<BR/> Dec 2000 Swiss journalist wrote his attempt to commit journalism in West Papua “Prison, Torture and Murder in Jayapura - Twelve Days in an Indonesian Jail”,<BR/> April 2004 the Yale Law School published:<BR/> “Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua:<BR/> Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control”<BR/><BR/>Genocide has raged for over forty years inside West Papua, as the Bechtel built Freeport McMoRan mine digs up its vast GOLD and Copper which Freeport mines under a 1967 Indonesian license.<BR/>How many are dead? Estimates range from 100 to 800 thousand; all NGOs agree over a hundred thousand have been killed without record or acknowledgment of their deaths.<BR/><BR/>That is genocide with complete impunity.<BR/><BR/> West Papua Information Kit http://wpik.org<BR/> Please helpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-1158290952552204822006-09-14T23:29:00.000-04:002006-09-14T23:29:00.000-04:00Just found thishttp://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Mov...Just found this<BR/>http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/14/wiesel.clooney.ap/index.htmlLiz in the Misthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535396346855135995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-1158290198208947362006-09-14T23:16:00.000-04:002006-09-14T23:16:00.000-04:00I find it concerning that it gets mentioned in the...I find it concerning that it gets mentioned in the news very sparsley--and usually saying something about involvement from the Western world is needed etc and nothing has ever been done.<BR/><BR/>I am very concerned that it could turn into another Rwanda--or worse. <BR/><BR/>The US is good at being reactive and not proactive.<BR/><BR/>I wish there was something I could do...Liz in the Misthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535396346855135995noreply@blogger.com