Papua: Another East Timor?(Brief Article)

From: Foreign Policy in Focus | Date: October 11, 2000| Author: Abrash, Abigail | Copyright information 
 
Key Points 
 
* Papua is a leading example of a 
failed decolonization process 
 
* Indonesian integration-cum-colonization 
of Papua--implemented 
with U.S. complicity--has amounted 
to an undeclared war against the 
indigenous population. 
 
* Indonesia's military buildup and East 
Timor-style militia activities threaten 
to destabilize Papua and the region.

Roughly the size of California, Papua forms the western half of the world's second-largest island, New Guinea. Pa...

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