The West Papua National Liberation Army has resisted counterinsurgency in the Star Mountains for decades. Drop Site spoke with guerilla leader Lamek Taplo a week before he was killed.
This report exposes a brutal truth the world has chosen to ignore for far too long: West Papua is being erased in slow motion by a military machine armed with foreign weapons and protected by decades of geopolitical indifference. That a people fighting with bows and arrows are being bombed by drones and warplanes says everything about the imbalance of power—and the injustice at its core. Lamek Taplo’s killing should be a wake-up call. If the international community can mobilize outrage over other conflicts, it must not treat West Papua as disposable. Silence is complicity.
Definitely Brutal! But not at all surprised, this Indonesian elect president Prabowo was a general under the Suharto regime, he was responsible for EastTimor massacre.
He is an Indonesian Trump.
Beware progressives and Muslim, he maybe a Zionist puppet as well, leading the largest Muslim nation.
Very important and informative. This issue needs to be put in front of the world. I do think that it would be valuable to bring in the issue of the current drive for palm oil that is furthering the need to remove the indigenous population. The encroachment of the palm oil plantations is devastating to them.
I read a book on this a couple of years ago on West Papua. It's called "In the Shadow of the Palms," by Sophie Chao. Unfortunately, it is practically unreadable, at least in part, due to, I suspect, it being an anthropology PhD thesis with no attempt to remove the jargon, and nothing done to make it readable for the ordinary person. The title does not suggest that it is only for deeply entrenched specialists, so hopefully a few people may have accidently picked it up and gotten some understanding from it, because it gives valuable information about West Papua, and I am glad I read it for the information, although, I didn't feel that way while I read it.
What the states, corporations, & societies supporting the slaughter of indigenous peoples on Papua are engaged in is called anti-Blackness.
The article notes “Ostensibly a counter-insurgency operation against a guerrilla independence movement, these bombings are primarily hitting civilians,” but this is a feature of counterinsurgency, not a bug. Colonial wars always target oppressed populations as a whole.
This report exposes a brutal truth the world has chosen to ignore for far too long: West Papua is being erased in slow motion by a military machine armed with foreign weapons and protected by decades of geopolitical indifference. That a people fighting with bows and arrows are being bombed by drones and warplanes says everything about the imbalance of power—and the injustice at its core. Lamek Taplo’s killing should be a wake-up call. If the international community can mobilize outrage over other conflicts, it must not treat West Papua as disposable. Silence is complicity.
Thank you for this article, never have i heard about that
Poor indigenous people standing in the way of money making.
Thank you for this reporting to reveal this to the world.
Definitely Brutal! But not at all surprised, this Indonesian elect president Prabowo was a general under the Suharto regime, he was responsible for EastTimor massacre.
He is an Indonesian Trump.
Beware progressives and Muslim, he maybe a Zionist puppet as well, leading the largest Muslim nation.
Things would run much smoother if would learn to adapt to each other
Very important and informative. This issue needs to be put in front of the world. I do think that it would be valuable to bring in the issue of the current drive for palm oil that is furthering the need to remove the indigenous population. The encroachment of the palm oil plantations is devastating to them.
I read a book on this a couple of years ago on West Papua. It's called "In the Shadow of the Palms," by Sophie Chao. Unfortunately, it is practically unreadable, at least in part, due to, I suspect, it being an anthropology PhD thesis with no attempt to remove the jargon, and nothing done to make it readable for the ordinary person. The title does not suggest that it is only for deeply entrenched specialists, so hopefully a few people may have accidently picked it up and gotten some understanding from it, because it gives valuable information about West Papua, and I am glad I read it for the information, although, I didn't feel that way while I read it.
Brutality beyond belief.
What the states, corporations, & societies supporting the slaughter of indigenous peoples on Papua are engaged in is called anti-Blackness.
The article notes “Ostensibly a counter-insurgency operation against a guerrilla independence movement, these bombings are primarily hitting civilians,” but this is a feature of counterinsurgency, not a bug. Colonial wars always target oppressed populations as a whole.