Australia urged to ‘step up substantially’ to halt violence in neighbouring West Papua

Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas at the UN. FR170574 AP

Exclusive: West Papua continues to be rocked by bloody violence as Indonesian security forces and pro-independence protesters clash. And Australia has been urged to do more to end the bloodshed.
BY VIRGINIA LANGEBERG
Australia has been urged to “step up substantially on the issue of West Papua”, with  Vanuatu’s leaders taking to the stage of the UN General Assembly to “emphatically condemn” alleged human rights violations in the region. 
Following reports of a mass exodus from the town of Wamena, in the Indonesian province of Papua, and increased violence on Monday, Vanuatu urged global leaders to assist West Papuans.

“We condemn, emphatically, violations of human rights of the indigenous people of West Papua,” Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas told the UN.

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