A sunny day in Sydney for May Day (International Workers' Day/ Labour Day).
If we celebrate workers’ rights around the world on the 1st May, tragically in West Papua it is the day a people were betrayed by the international community.
Fifty-nine years ago on the 1 May in 1963, the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority (UNTEA) transferred administration of the Dutch colony of Netherlands New Guinea to Indonesia. From the moment Indonesia took over the administration from UNTEA, the oppression of the West Papuan people began and 59 years later the oppression continues and so does the struggle of the West Papuan people for self-determination.
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