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Last Updated 08/06/2007, 17:46:39
Hundreds of people have rallied in West Papua, calling on the United
Nations to pressure Jakarta into overturning a 1969 referendum that
joined the territory to Indonesia.
The demonstrators, rallying during a visit by UN envoy Hina Jilani,
claim the referendum was a sham.
Rally organiser, Jek Wanggai, says the UN must accept the Papuan
people's aspiration to review the Act of Free Choice, as the
referendum was known.
"The United Nations must register Papuan areas as colonised zones and
organise an immediate referendum vote," he said.
Papuans have long accused Indonesia's military of violating human
rights in the province and complain that the bulk of earnings from its
rich natural resources flow to Jakarta.
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