Blog - Simple List - United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP)

March 30, 2020 Media advisory notice on alleged shooting near Freeport mine in Timika

The ULMWP is aware of reports that around six people have been shot in Kuala...

March 25, 2020 ULMWP Chair: Refusal to stop incoming migrants demonstrates Indonesia’s genocidal policies

Indonesian Interior Minister, Tito Karnavian, is refusing to suspend flights and ships carrying individuals...

March 23, 2020 ULMWP Chair: West Papuan political prisoners at risk of Covid-19 if not released

Indonesia must immediately release all West Papuan political prisoners, including the 57 incarcerated following the...

March 18, 2020 ULMWP Chair: West Papua faces double crisis of coronavirus and Indonesian colonialism

As I stated last week, the people of West Papua face a new double crisis:...

March 10, 2020 Urgent alert: Indonesian military depopulating villages to protect Freeport gold mine

As the world faces the coronavirus crisis, my people face a renewed humanitarian crisis in...

March 4, 2020 ULMWP Chair: Indonesian political leaders are now genocide deniers, too

The Indonesian government has become an international pariah state, killing West Papuans with impunity and...

February 21, 2020 ULMWP Statement on the Passing of Andy Ayamiseba

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) is deeply saddened by the news that...

February 12, 2020 ‘West Papua has no future in Indonesia’: Chairman Wenda’s Speech to MSG Foreign Ministers

Speech delivered by Chairman of the ULMWP, Benny Wenda, during the Foreign Ministers & Senior...

February 5, 2020 ULMWP Chair: Widodo to visit Australia whilst imprisonment and killing in West Papua increase

[Bahasa translation below] President Widodo is planning to address the Australian parliament on February 10....

January 31, 2020 ULMWP Delegation welcomed to EU Parliament by President of Catalonia

A ULMWP delegation, comprised of Chairman Benny Wenda and Head of EU Mission Oridek Ap,...

January 2, 2020 ULMWP Chair: New Year’s message to the people of West Papua

Last year was both terrible and good for the people of West Papua. We continued...

December 24, 2019 ULMWP Chairman’s Christmas message to the people of West Papua

Twenty-nineteen has been the worst year on record for the people of West Papua. They...

November 18, 2019 ULMWP Chairman: December 1 must be a ‘Day of Mourning’ for all who died this year

I, Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) declare Sunday December 1,...

October 29, 2019 Benny Wenda: President Jokowi treating West Papua as holiday home in midst of human rights crisis

[Bahasa translation below] President Jokowi has made another trip to West Papua, treating it as...

October 7, 2019 ULMWP Chairman’s response to reports President Widodo willing to hold meeting

[Bahasa version below] I, Chair of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), am...

October 4, 2019 URGENT STATEMENT: Indonesia must not move Agus Kossay and Buchtar Tabuni from West Papua to Jakarta

As Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), I call upon the...

September 24, 2019 ULMWP Chair: Urgent United Nations and Pacific Islands Forum intervention needed to prevent more massacres in West Papua

[Bahasa translation below] Twenty-nineteen is becoming the worst year in nearly six decades of illegal...

September 12, 2019 Message of Condolence from the Chairman of the ULMWP to the Government and People of the Kingdom of Tonga

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) and people of West Papua would like...

September 9, 2019 ULMWP Chair: Urgent action needed as Indonesia attempts to destroy West Papuan liberation movement

[Bahasa translation below] We are winning the struggle with Indonesia. Politically, legally, morally, our arguments...

September 5, 2019 ULMWP Chairman calls on Widodo and Wiranto to hold a referendum, stop personal attacks

[Bahasa version of statement, below.] Hundreds of thousands of West Papuans are rising up for...

August 30, 2019 URGENT ALERT: United Nations intervention needed before Santa Cruz like massacre takes place in West Papua

The people of West Papua need urgent international attention. I am calling on all the...

August 26, 2019 PRESS RELEASE: ‘Second Wave’ of ‘West Papua Uprising’ commences in struggle for independence referendum

Tens of thousands of people take to the streets in second wave of protests; One...

August 21, 2019 Ketua ULMWP: Bergeraklah dan bersatulah melawan rasisme dan diskriminasi

SERUAN POLITIK Saya selaku Ketua Eksekutif dan pemimpian Bangsa Papua menyampaikan keprihatinan yang mendalam atas...

August 20, 2019 ULMWP Chairman: UN must visit West Papua following racist attacks

I, as Chair of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, express my deep concern...

August 18, 2019 ULMWP Chairman: Stop Indonesian repression of the people of West Papua

[Statement in Bahasa below.] Over the past three days, the people of West Papua have...

August 15, 2019 PRESS RELEASE: Brutal Indonesian police crack-down as West Papua issue pushed forward in PIF

Indonesian police have arrested over 140 West Papuans calling for Pacific leaders to make a...

August 10, 2019 Press Release – ULMWP Chairman welcomes call for United Nations Human Rights Mission to West Papua

The Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), Benny Wenda has welcomed...

August 10, 2019 ULMWP Chairman: Don’t celebrate Indonesian independence – we are mourning for Nduga

[Translation into Bahasa below.] I, as Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua,...

July 26, 2019 UK Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn sends statement of congratulations to ULMWP Chairman

On 17th July 2019, ULMWP Chairman Benny Wenda was granted Freedom of the City of...

July 21, 2019 ULMWP Chairman receives Freedom of the City of Oxford

On Wednesday 17th July, Benny Wenda the Chairman of The United Liberation Movement for West...

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