Call for suspension of military ties with Indonesia
Submitted by 2SER on Fri, 21/10/2011 - 9:20pmThe shootings and arrests of people meeting peacefully at the Third West Papuan Peoples Congress at Abepura this week are the latest instance of Indonesia’s violent and repressive rule in West Papua.
Australia has an agreement for military cooperation with Indonesia which includes the supply of weapons.
It opens with the phrase “reaffirming the sovereign equality of the parties, their faith in the purposes and principles of the charter of the United Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all governments”.