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West Papuans Testify
Jason MacLeod – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
We have come to testify. There is much that we want the world to know. We want you to hear stories of suffering from the mouths of ordinary people. Our memories are clear and sharp. ‘In this river our father was murdered.’ ‘On that mountain slope there used to be villages. They were destroyed by the military.’ ‘On that open field, our old men were forced to burn their koteka [penis sheaths] because they were considered primitive.’ ‘In the past that mountain was ours, now people have destroyed our mother.’ We want you to travel with us to the sites of the massacres. We want to testify about the killings and the beatings with rifles.
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