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A Tale of Two Melanesian Struggles for Independence:
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On the other side lies West Papua, where the same institution abandoned an entire people to silence, militarisation, and slow extinction.
West Papua: The Betrayed NationAcross PNG’s western border, West Papua tells a starkly different story.
Over 110 countries have now demanded that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights be allowed to visit West Papua.
In the early 1960s, West Papua was formally listed in the UN decolonisation list as a non-self-governing territory with recognised rights to eventual independence.
Two Paths, One Moral TestBougainville and West Papua represent two fundamentally different approaches to indigenous struggles for self-determination.