In West Papua their is a mass murder going on these days. Hunderds and hunderds of people are killed, just because they want to have their own independant country: West Papua. West Papua is the western half of the Island of New Guinea, 100 miles north of Australia. A former Dutch colony that remained under Dutch control when the Republic of Indonesia became an independent nation in 1949. On December 1st 1961, West Papua declared Independence, three months later the Indonesian army invaded. In 1969 the UN oversaw a referendum on independence, the 'Act of Free Choice', during which 1026 Papuan representatives were forced at gunpoint to vote to join Indonesia. Since then, an estimated 400,000 Papuans have died as a direct result of the Indonesian occupation.

With all the social media, blogs, twitter and news we can have 'round the clock, it is very strange we don't hear anything about this and I find it quite hard to believe that no one really cares about these people. This has happened before, as we all know, in Cambodia and many other countries. We always say: let's learn from the past, so now is the time to learn from the past and do something about it.

If you feel that this is important to you, don't hestitate and sign!