Daeron <daeron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:<422895c0$0$5187$afc38c87@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>...
> Since 1965, the people of West Papua have been
> calling upon the United Nations to allow them a vote,
> a referendum upon their nations status.
>
> The United Nations has refused these requests.
>
> For forty years Indonesia's Islamic military has committed genocide
against
> the Christian people of West Papua who saved many thousands of US troops
> during the Pacific war and carried many Americans from the battle-lines.
>
> Will the people of the United States please help their WW-ii Ally?
>
> Please read the petition available at:
> http://fandom.net/Petition
> (also http://www.petitiononline.com/free800
)
>
> and IF you want to, please sign the petition.
>
> ======================================================
> To: The Honorable George W. Bush,
> President of the United States
>
> Copy To: The Honorable Condeleezza Rice,
> Secretary of State
>
> We, the undersigned, ask the President of the United States to enact
his
> recent call for freedom by calling upon the United Nations and Indonesia
to
> allow a genuine self-determination referendum for West Papua (West New
> Guinea) as was clearly intended by the signed agreement between the
> Netherlands and Indonesia at the United Nations and mediated by the
United
> States in 1962.
>
> As a World War Two Ally who fought alongside U.S. troops and carried
> wounded U.S. soldiers from the battlelines, the people of West Papua
> deserve reciprocal aid in their struggle for independence and freedom.
The
> United States should take pride in speaking at the United Nations in
> defence of their inalienable right to self-determination and freedom.
>
> We the undersigned call on the President of the United States to
support
> Congressman Faleomavaega's February 17th call that the United States
> support the struggle of the West Papuan people for freedom, and ask that
> the United States call upon the United Nations and Indonesia to allow a
> genuine vote of self-determination in the spirit of the 1962 Indonesian
> Agreement.
May I ask what relevance this has to this forum?
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