Denmark hit the headlines in West Papuan medias… Involved in killing action: DENMARK ACCUSED OF FUNDING INDONESIAN DEATH SQUAD Below is an English translation of the article published in West Papuan indigenous peoples news media THE VOICE OF YALI, THIS IS MY LAND: ericsonsuhun.wordpress/2014/07/10/terlibat-dalam-tindakan-pembunuhan-denmark-dituduh-mendukung-skuad-tewas-di-indonesia/ English translation: - The Danish Government sponsor Indonesia with the Danish people´s tax money to perform genocide in West Papua. Indonesian police academy receive funds from Denmark despite claims that one of the units, Detachment 88, violate human rights in West Papua. Denmark has since 2004 supported an Indonesian police academy (JCLEC) where the countrys controversial elite unit Detachment 88 is being trained to fight terrorism. But several human rights organizations claim the unit acts as a death squad in Indonesias troubled West Papua region, and that it tortures and kills civilians and members of separatist movements. Not only are you responsible under these circumstances, in which you support the police, but you are taking part in a crime. If your attitude is so naïve, you cant help anyone, Basil Fernando, a legal advisor at the Asian Human Rights Commission in Hong Kong, told DR Deadline / Danish television. Nick Chesterfield, an Australian journalist and editor of West Papua Media Alerts, claimed Denmark had absolutely no control of where its funds were going. Between 2004 and 2013, Denmark has granted the police academy a total of 13 million Danish kroner, and the Foreign Ministry plans to extend its support until 2017. (July 9, 2014 13:24 - The Copenhagen Post / by Andreas Jakobsen). Read more here: cphpost.dk/news/complicit-in-the-act-of-killing-denmark-accused-of-supporting-indonesian-death-squad.10168.html If you want to write to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Mr. Martin Lidegaard, this is his e-mail: [email protected] He is also on facebook: https://facebook/martin.lidegaard Free West Papua Campaign Denmark is very sad to experience that the Danish people and the government itself does not have control over what the Danish tax-money is used for. Why is Denmark supporting Indonesia??? - Denmark should instead help free West Papua to meet its legal obligation under Article 76 of the UN Charter, see un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter12.shtml Now there is a discussion going on in the Danish media, and we really need discussion in Denmark. Free West Papua Campaign Denmark has previously been trying very hard to make Danish politicians and media interested in discussing what is happening in West Papua. West Papua is very far away from Denmark, and only very few Danish people have ever heard about West Papua, most people they do not know where in the world it is or what their tax money is being used for. Without the slightest reaction the administrator of Free West Papua Campaign Denmark has protested and written many messages end emails to politicians in Denmark, as well as Danish media. Especially after the former Danish Minister for Trade and Investment Pia Olsen Dyhr, during an official visit to Jakarta (early March 2013) as the head of a Danish business delegation and on behalf of Denmark and Danida, donated 50 million dollars of Danish citizens tax money to Indonesia, so Denmark, like many other Western countries, is contributing to sponsor a nation who commit genocide in West Papua. Peter Bang (Free West Papua Campaign Denmark) - “As a Danish citizen I became very angry because of this, because it is my tax-money used to sponsor Indonesia, who commit genocide in West Papua. It seems completely crazy to me because there are much poorer countries than Indonesia who is in serious need of economical support for environmental protection, development, education, health programs and food for starving people. Indonesia is a country of strong economic growth, not least due the robbery of West Papuas natural resources. Some emails has also been sent to the former Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Villy Søvndal, but there was no feedback at all”. Source: https://facebook/FreeWestPapuaCampaignDenmark/photos/pb.161888137309039.-2207520000.1409269149./329935277170990/?type=3&theater Besides Denmark, Australia and New Zealand is two other countries that support Indonesian police. The article has also been published here: tabloidjubi/2014/07/10/bantuan-denmark-pada-polisi-indonesia-dituding-langgengkan-pelanggaran-ham/
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:24:46 +0000
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