{"id":1505,"date":"2024-02-26T18:34:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2024-02-26T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T18:34:38","slug":"a-west-papuan-replies-to-jared-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"A West Papuan replies to Jared Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<header class=\"mt-3\"\/>\n<figure class=\"figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\" onerror=\"this.src='\/assets\/structure\/missing_original-595bea421920ffc76e849d20e8406161f53844f5671d4d22536117459887b2d3.jpg'\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.survivalinternational.org\/pictures\/2989\/benny-wenda-1_940.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9\u00a0freewestpapua.org \/ Survival\"\/><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Benny Wenda\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0freewestpapua.org \/ Survival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m very upset with this man (Jared Diamond).<\/p>\n<p>What he has written about my folks is deceptive, I&#8217;m a Dani man. Individuals<br \/>are at all times speaking about me and my folks to make themselves well-known. He&#8217;s<br \/>not writing about what the Indonesian army are doing \u2013 that&#8217;s the actual violence<br \/>that&#8217;s taking place in West Papua.<\/p>\n<p>Tribal conflict for the Dani was not daily or yearly as he describes on this<br \/>e book. Tribal conflict solely occurred when one thing occurred like a land dispute<br \/>or somebody was attacked. That is what occurs in all societies.<br \/>Indonesia illegally occupied our nation in 1963 and that&#8217;s when the<br \/>massacres actually began in every single place in West Papua. The Indonesian<br \/>authorities didn&#8217;t rescue us from a cycle of violence like Jared Diamond says<br \/>\u2013 they introduced violence to us like we had by no means recognized earlier than \u2013 they&#8217;ve<br \/>murdered, raped and imprisoned my folks they usually have stolen our land to<br \/>make themselves wealthy. I keep in mind in 1977 when Indonesia began a conflict within the<br \/>Central Highlands of West Papua, which is the place I come from. They killed<br \/>hundreds of individuals, I noticed my folks being murdered by Indonesian troopers<br \/>and my very own Auntie was raped in entrance of my eyes. Indonesia instructed the world that<br \/>this was \u2018tribal conflict\u2019 \u2013 they tried to fake that it was us that was violent and<br \/>not them \u2013 this e book is doing the identical.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has been killing my folks daily, each month and yearly \u2013<br \/>how might Jared Diamond ignore what taking place in West Papua in his<br \/>e book? The Indonesian army are committing Genocide in West Papua. By<br \/>speaking solely about tribal conflict in West Papua and ignoring what the Indonesians<br \/>are doing to my folks your e book is supporting Indonesia\u2019s unlawful occupation of<br \/>West Papua.<\/p>\n<p>Please depart us alone with our mother-land.<\/p>\n<p>Please depart us alone with our nature.<\/p>\n<p>Please depart us alone and respect our customized and our manner of dwell.<\/p>\n<p>Please depart us alone and don&#8217;t destroy our tradition and our identification.<\/p>\n<p>Benny Wenda<\/p>\n<p>Tribal chief from Dani\/Lani tribe<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"end-of-content\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.survivalinternational.org\/pictures\/24286\/survival-logo-plain_original.png\"\/><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benny Wenda\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0freewestpapua.org \/ Survival I&#8217;m very upset with this man (Jared Diamond). What he has written about my folks is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.survivalinternational.org\/pictures\/2989\/benny-wenda-1_940.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emergency_survival_news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/assets.survivalinternational.org\/pictures\/2989\/benny-wenda-1_940.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergencysurvivalsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}