How did he get his video footage of OPM side of this saga ?
He gave his one video camera to a Papuan boy from the region, and months later he received in the post a video tape with all the footage, testimony, and investigation leads from the OPM leaders he needed to complete the story.
Today a broadcaster could easily afford to buy a dozen small digital cameras
which record photographs and video to memory chips and cost only $100-$200 retail each.
A group travelling through Papua could accidently lose a dozen such cameras
and fifty or sixty memory chips in Jayapura and the highlands.
With any luck, it could be the source of exciting media reports for years to come;
and help open the nation of West Papua to the world.
21/April/2006
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Bob Brown (Aust.), Keith Locke MP (NZ)
have written to add their full support to a letter already endorsed by
US Congressman Faleomavaega, Bishop Hilton Deakin, Hon. Dr. Meredith Burgmann,
Prof. Michael Byers, Prof Noam Chomsky petitioning for advisory opinions from
the International Court of Justice about arrant and illegal irregularities in
the administration and annexation of West Papua.
Five major violations of international law,
the UN Charter and General Assembly resolutions have been identified :
1) that Indonesia has yet to comply with the UN Charter, article 73,
by allowing self-determination for West New Guinea
in compliance with UN GA resolution 1541 ;
2) that the 'New York Agreement' to transfer the administration of West Papua
to Indonesia without the West Papuan people's consent violates international
law and the United Nations Charter ;
3) that the Agreement violates UN Resolution 1514 by delaying transfer of
administration in accordance with the people's will, and violates contract
law as it was written for a purpose other than its stated primary function;
4) that the 'Act of Free Choice' was invalid in light of multiple violations
of the terms of the 'New York Agreement', the United Nations Charter and UN GA Resolution 1541 ;
and that apart from historical issues
5) West Papua qualifies as a non-governing territory as defined by UN GA Resolution 1541.
Full text of letter can be found at :
http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=56&par=4283
Joe Collins from AWPA Sydney said
"It is internationally accepted that the 1969 'act of free choice'
was flawed and not a true act of self-determination.
A Dutch government commissioned report by Pieter Drooglever concluded,
as have others, that the ?act of free choice? was a sham.
Its time that the UN accepted responsibility and looked at
its involvement not only in its handling of the act of free choice
but also at the New York agreement."
Copies of other reports about West Papua can be found at:
http://fandom.net/InfoKit/Src/More.html
The death of UN Sec. Gen. Dag Hammarskjold in Sept 1961 removed his protection
for the decolonization of West New Guinea which was then removed from the UN list
of colonized nations without explanation,
even though the UN had already been accepting reports on the nation's progress
towards independence under article 73 of the United Nations Charter.
Given false advice in 1962, John F Kennedy believed his fight against communism
required buying Indonesia's promise by forcing the Netherlands
to illegally transfer West New Guinea's administration to Indonesia
without the people's consent;
the result, Bechtel Inc. & Freeport McMoRan got to build the world's
largest & dirtyest mine;
and are able to help fund GW Bush as well as being Indonesia's largest single tax payer.