Nduga Archives - United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP)

April 12, 2023 President Wenda: West Papua is effectively under martial law

This is an urgent notice to the world that Indonesia have essentially imposed martial law...

May 4, 2021 Urgent alert: Massive military operations in West Papua imminent

I issue this urgent warning the world: huge Indonesian military operations, some of the largest...

April 5, 2021 UN human rights chief and Vanuatu condemn Indonesian abuses in West Papua

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has spoken out against the ‘alarming...

December 10, 2020 Interim President Wenda: Indonesian Government greets UN Human Rights Day with military operations and arrests

Today, on UN Human Rights Day, I am calling on the Indonesian government to withdraw...

November 25, 2020 ULMWP Chair: Three school children massacred in Puncak as Indonesia targets new generation

An Indonesian military death squad is roaming the regency of Puncak, killing West Papuan school...

September 29, 2020 ULMWP Chair: Indonesian police storm West Papuan university as Vanuatu speaks out at UN

Just days after the Republic of Vanuatu made statements on West Papua at the UN...

September 23, 2020 ULMWP Chair: Pastor shot dead as the people of West Papua resist ‘Special Autonomy’

As the UN General Assembly meets to celebrate its 75th anniversary, it continues to ignore...

August 25, 2020 ULWMP Chair: Two suspicious deaths of Papuan lawyers; three civilians murdered on Indonesian Independence Day

Two leading West Papuan lawyers have mysteriously died this month, following their successful advocacy for...

July 21, 2020 ULMWP Chair: New killings in Nduga show independence only solution in West Papua

[Bahasa translation below] Two more unarmed West Papuan civilians have been killed by the Indonesian...

March 4, 2020 ULMWP Chair: Indonesian political leaders are now genocide deniers, too

The Indonesian government has become an international pariah state, killing West Papuans with impunity and...

February 12, 2020 ‘West Papua has no future in Indonesia’: Chairman Wenda’s Speech to MSG Foreign Ministers

Speech delivered by Chairman of the ULMWP, Benny Wenda, during the Foreign Ministers & Senior...

February 5, 2020 ULMWP Chair: Widodo to visit Australia whilst imprisonment and killing in West Papua increase

[Bahasa translation below] President Widodo is planning to address the Australian parliament on February 10....

January 2, 2020 ULMWP Chair: New Year’s message to the people of West Papua

Last year was both terrible and good for the people of West Papua. We continued...

December 24, 2019 ULMWP Chairman’s Christmas message to the people of West Papua

Twenty-nineteen has been the worst year on record for the people of West Papua. They...

November 18, 2019 ULMWP Chairman: December 1 must be a ‘Day of Mourning’ for all who died this year

I, Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) declare Sunday December 1,...

September 24, 2019 ULMWP Chair: Urgent United Nations and Pacific Islands Forum intervention needed to prevent more massacres in West Papua

[Bahasa translation below] Twenty-nineteen is becoming the worst year in nearly six decades of illegal...

August 10, 2019 ULMWP Chairman: Don’t celebrate Indonesian independence – we are mourning for Nduga

[Translation into Bahasa below.] I, as Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua,...

June 6, 2019 UK Parliamentary meeting hears update on the struggle for self-determination in West Papua

A meeting held in the UK’s Parliament last Tuesday received extensive updates on the human...

April 1, 2019 Human Rights Investigators: Bombs dropped, hospitals torched and thousands displaced in Nduga

A delegation from Front Line Defenders, a human rights monitoring group, has reported that over...

March 12, 2019 ULMWP Spokesperson: The UN must stop Indonesian military attacks in West Papua

West Papuans beg for UN intervention as 2,650 Indonesian commandos hunt down freedom-fighters and the...

February 11, 2019 Chairman of the ULMWP condemns Indonesian crackdown on freedom of expression

On January 25, I, as chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP),...

January 21, 2019 Chairman of the ULMWP statement on chemical weapons and humanitarian crisis in Nduga

I, Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), condemn in the strongest...