Papúa occidental, la mitad oeste de la isla de [«Nueva Guinea»:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea]. Territorio olvidado donde los haya. «Regalado» a Indonesia por los holandeses y la ONU en 1962, oprimidos sus habitantes, explotados sus recursos, nada se sabe sobre ello.
Una reciente noticia llamaba a este territorio, [«el jardín del edén»:http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/88514/0/selva/indonesia/Papua/]. No opinan lo mismo los refugiados que llegan a Australia hablando de genocidio. Declaraba Herman Wainggai, uno de los refugiados:
«We knew, that if the Indonesian military had caught us, most of us would have died. They treat West Papuans like animals. They kill us like animals. They have created militias and jihadis to do just that. It is the same as East Timor.»
¿Las razones? Las de siempre, beneficio económico, níquel, oro, cobre y madera. Lo explica John Pilger:
«The silence of the «international community» is explained by the fabulous wealth of West Papua. In November 1967, soon after Suharto had consolidated his seizure of power, the Time-Life Corporation sponsored an extraordinary conference in Geneva. The participants included the most powerful capitalists in the world, led by the banker David Rockefeller. Sitting opposite them were Suharto’s men, known as the «Berkeley mafia», as several had enjoyed US government scholarships to the University of California at Berkeley. Over three days, the Indonesian economy was carved up, sector by sector. An American and European consortium was handed West Papua’s nickel; American, Japanese and French companies got its forests. However, the prize – the world’s largest gold reserve and third-largest copper deposit, literally a mountain of copper and gold – went to the US mining giant Freeport-McMoran. On the board is Henry Kissinger, who, as US secretary of state, gave the «green light» to Suharto to invade East Timor, says theDutch report.
Freeport is today probably the biggest single source of revenue for the Indonesian regime: the company is said to have handed Jakarta 33 billion dollars between 1992 and 2004. Little of this has reached the people of West Papua. Last December, 55 people reportedly starved to death in the district of Yahukimo. The Jakarta Post noted the «horrible irony» of hunger in such an «immensely rich» province. According to the World Bank, «38 per cent of Papua’s population is living in poverty, more than double the national average».»
Ver:
– John Pilger, «[«The Secret War Against The Defenseless People Of West Papua»:http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12268.htm]»
– Human Rights Watch, «[«Indonesia, violence and political impasse in Papua»:http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/papua/]»
– Wikipedia, «Free Papua Movement»:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisasi_Papua_Merdeka
– ABC Australia, «[«Papuans seek asylum after fleeing persecution»:http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1559314.htm]»