As Indonesia Threatens West Papuan Freedom Flotilla, Benny Wenda on Struggle for Independence

BP has a natural gas exploitation project in West Papua. Rio Tinto now part-owns Freeport gold mine. Freeport gold mine is incredibly problematic in terms of the environmental degradation that it has impacted upon West Papua, so badly that the overseas protection insurance from the U.S. government was denied. The Norwegian government has divested itself of investment in Freeport because of social—unfair social practices and human rights abuse concerns. More recently, the New Zealand pension funds have divested themselves of their investments in both Rio Tinto and Freeport, for exactly the same concerns. There have been widespread allegations of torture and abuse around the gold mine, killings of both foreigners and local West Papuans and Indonesians by security services who are on the payroll of Freeport gold mine. This is a huge issue that does not get sufficient media attention.
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