Benny Wenda Give a talk the New Frontlines of War: Corporations Conflict and Community Resistance By West Papua News Mar 24, 2014, 18:32

Benny Wenda Give a talk the New Frontlines of War: Corporations Conflict and Community Resistance By West Papua News Mar 24, 2014, 18:32

The New Front line of war which Corporations Conflict and Community Resistance invited West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda who is tell how transnationals, like Freeport, Rio Tinto and BP, profit from gold and gas deposits in the Indonesian province, as its people lack basic healthcare, social, education and damaging environment, also river had been polluted.

Benny Wenda

Wenda claims Freeport and Rio Tinto are said to have close ties with the Indonesian military to protect their interests – a military estimated to have killed more than 500,000 Papuans, which continues to commit abuses and genocide in West Papua.

The Speakers

The New Frontlines of War

Benny Wenda

Organiser of WAR ON WANT Fighting Global Poverty

Poem from Palestine

Celestine Akpobari, from the organisation Social Action, ally to the Niger Delta community of Rumuekpe

Berenice Celeita, from the Colombian group Nomadesc,

The speaker with the West Papuan Flag "Morning Star"