1) Komnas HAM Papua asks the police and prosecutors to pay attention to the psychology of Victor Yeimo

2) ‘A day of betrayal’, says Wenda about 1962 secret pact over West Papua 

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1) Komnas HAM Papua asks the police and prosecutors to pay attention to the psychology of Victor Yeimo

Reporter: Arjuna Pademme

                               Kepala kantor Komnas HAM perwakilan Papua, Frits Ramandey - Jubi. Dok

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 Reporter: Arjuna Pademme August 15, 2021 3:17 pm

Jayapura, Jubi – The National Human Rights Commission or Komnas HAM Papua Representative asked the police and prosecutors to pay attention to the health and psychological conditions of the international spokesman for the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), Victor Yeimo.

The head of the Komnas HAM Papua Representative Office, Frits Ramandey, said his party had visited the former KNPB chairman three times. A visit to see Victor Yeimo's condition was carried out, when Yeimo was detained as a suspect at the Papua Regional Police, until he was a defendant, and was entrusted by the prosecutor's office at the Mobile Brigade Headquarters, Kotaraja, Abepura District, Jayapura City.

"We have asked investigators and I to coordinate directly with the Kajati Papua, to pay attention to Victor Yeimo's health and psychological condition," said Frits Ramandey to Jubi, Saturday (14/8/2021).

According to him, one of the things that can affect Yeimo's psychological condition is that he is currently being held alone at the Mobile Brigade Command Headquarters. This situation caused the defendant to be unable to communicate with other people at all times.

When the family or other circles want to meet Victor Yeimo, the process is quite difficult. There are various conditions or must get permission from certain parties.

To that end, Komnas HAM Papua Representative also asked the police and the prosecutor's office to provide access so that Victor Yeimo's family or anyone who wants to meet can meet him because they care about the legal process and want to ascertain the condition of the defendant while he is being detained.

"The problem now is psychology. This could have an impact on Victor Yeimo's condition. For example, he can be stressed, potentially new diseases will emerge,” he said.

He said that when the Komnas HAM Papua Representative team met Yeimo recently, he complained that it was difficult to get access to get out of the detention room, even if it was just to sunbathe every day.

He is only allowed to sunbathe on certain days. Yet what Yeimo wanted was to be able to sunbathe every day.

“We ask that his request to be able to sunbathe every day can be fulfilled, and that his lawyer can always be given access when going to see him. We have said that since the beginning of visiting Victor Yeimo," he said.

Read also: Komnas HAM Papua plans to file a ban on the detention of Victor Yeimo

The head of the High Prosecutor's Office or Kajati Papua, Nikolaus Kondomo, said his party would guarantee Victor Yaimo's rights.

"We ensure that the rights of the accused while they are deposited in the Brimob Detention Center will be well guaranteed. Not only the right to health, also eat, drink, and others. We make sure that all the rights of the accused are fulfilled," Nikolaus Kondomo said through an online press statement to reporters, Tuesday (10/08/2021).

According to him, now Yeimo has been detained by the prosecutor's office. However, he was temporarily placed in the detention center of the Mobile Brigade Command Headquarters, pending the trial process at the court, after the prosecutor's office transferred his case file to the court.

"We leave the defendant in the Brimob Detention Center, because we don't have a detention center

to hold it. We only have temporary cells. It is not possible for the accused to be detained there for one 24 hours,” he said. (*)

Editor: Dewi Wulandari

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https://asiapacificreport.nz/2021/08/15/a-day-of-betrayal-says-wenda-about-1962-secret-pact-over-west-papua/

2) ‘A day of betrayal’, says Wenda about 1962 secret pact over West Papua 

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By APR editor - 

  

August 15, 2021

Wenda said Papuans must hold a day of mourning instead to “remember what has been done to us”.

He added: “Due to this covid crisis, we must stay at home this year. If you can safely hold a prayer meeting in your village, do so, but remember that covid-19 is a killer. We must be safe.”

Wenda also called on the Indonesian government to “begin to rectify this history” by setting freed all political prisoners, including Victor Yeimo, spokesperson of the KNPB, and Frans Wasini, of the ULMWP provisional government.

“Their condition is worrying, due to their unfair treatment. They are at risk of dying in prison if nothing is done.

UN visit needed urgently
Indonesia must also allow the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights into West Papua as a matter of urgency, Wenda said.

He added that Papuans would continue fighting until they regained their right to self-determination through an internationally-mediated referendum on independence.

In Sydney, Joe Collins of the Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) also described the New York agreement as a “betrayal”, saying that he hoped the Indonesian security forces would allow any rallies that take place commemorating this tragic event today to go ahead peacefully.

A rally by the People’s Front of Indonesia For West Papua (FRI-WP) and the Student Alliance of Papua (AMP) Ambon City Committee, were being held today to commemorate the tragic event with the theme: ′′ 59 years of New York illegal agreement and against racism in the Land of Papua.′

Collins said in a statement there was also concern that as the Indonesian Independence Day on August 17 approached, West Papuans might be intimidated or forced to take part in celebrations against their will.

An article by Antara news agency titled “Papuans urged to display flags ahead of Independence Day celebration” reported that the Papua local administration had urged residents and bureaucrats to join the celebration of Indonesia’s 76th Independence Day by displaying the Red and White national flag in front of their homes, shops, and offices.Asia Pacific Report newsdesk

Today — 15 August 15 1962 — marks “a day of betrayal for us West Papuans”, says a Papuan leader as critics reminded the world about what happened 59 years ago.

“This is the day a secret deal was done between the United States, Indonesia and the Netherlands, deciding our future without any consultation with the people of West Papua,” said interim president Benny Wenda of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP).

“This secret deal was done without a single West Papuan in the room.”

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This deal led to the Indonesian invasion of West Papua in 1963, “sanctioned by the big powers”, said Wenda in a statement.

“The secret deal contained a proviso: that there be a referendum, one person one vote, to decide the long-term future of West Papua.

“But it never happened. The 1969 Act of No Choice was a fraud. Our right to self-determination remains stolen from us by Indonesia.

“I’m calling on all my people in West Papua, in exile, in a refugee camp, wherever you are: do not join the Indonesian independence day celebrations on August 17.

Independence ‘snatched from us’
“This is not our independence day. Our independence day is 1 December 1 1961, an independence and sovereignty snatched from us by the Indonesian military. We have our own constitution, our own provisional government, our own interim president.

“We know that Indonesian security services will go door to door trying to force West Papuans to raise the Indonesian flag. We do not want to celebrate your flag in West Papua.

“Under the name of the Indonesian flag, many of my people have been killed. Indonesia must respect our rights; you cannot force my people to raise your flag.

Tomorrow, the Papuan People’s Petition (PRP) facilitators have called for people in the Land of Papua to be involved together in the Papuan people’s free pulpit action to urge the unconditional release of Victor Yeimo.

According to Tabloid Jubi, spokesperson for the petition, Samuel Awom, said that Yeimo was not a perpetrator but a victim of Indonesia’s structured and massive colonial racism that had happened to indigenous Papuans.

Yeimo currently holds the status of a “prosecutor’s detainee” but is being temporarily placed in the Papua Police Mobile Brigade detention centre while waiting for the trial process.

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