Letter From Benny Wenda to Parliamentarians on the World

Dear friends of the Free West Papua Campaign,

I am writing to thank you for your continued support of the people of West Papua towards their goal of independence from the Indonesian Government, via your continued involvement in the Free West Papua Campaign. We are now asking all our UK supporters to talk to their representatives in parliament by sending them the attached document. We would encourage those of you who do not live in the UK to take similar action in your respective countries.

KNPB ACTION IN EIGHT CITIES , AND NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE DETAINED

Peaceful demonstrations are conducted by the West Papua National Committee ( KNPB ) yesterday ( 16 / 09 ) still take place in some counties and cities in Papua and West Papua , although the police had banned the demonstration .

Peaceful demonstration was conducted to provide support to the Government of Vanuatu in order to bring the issue of West Papua at the annual session of the United Nations this year . And requested the brothers Papuan people like Vanuatu , Fiji , Solomon Islands , PNG and New Caledonia ( Kanaky ) to follow up the results of the final decision at the annual meeting of the MSG MSG Kanaky June 19 to 21 June , 2013 by West Papua .

According to KNPB, 249 of their members have been arrested

Jayapura: The National Committee of West Papua - KNPB - has claimed that  249 members have been arrested by the police across West Papua because they took part in demonstrations to mark International Democracy Day on Monday this week.

This was announced by the co-ordinator of the action, Warpo Wetipo who was accompanied by the spokesman of the KNPB, Wim Rocky Madlama and the first deputy chairman of KNPB Agus Kossay. Warpo said that because International Democracy Day was on Sunday, they decided to hold their demonstration on the following day, Monday.

KNPB: 'Being arrested in nothing unusual - it strengthens our struggle'

Jayapura:  Even though the KNPB demonstration on Monday was forcibly dispersed by the security forces on 16 September, the organisation has every intention of holding another peaceful demonstration.

The spokesman of the organisation, Wim Rocky Medlama, said: 'Actually, we were planning to organise another demonstration on 18 September but we decided not to go ahead for certain reasons. But be assured that we will organise another demonstration very soon, possibly in the coming week.'