There
is a small group of Islands a little to the east and south of PN-G where
cannibals live happily shrinking heads and practising voodoo. They love life,
respect death and deal with natural catastrophes as they have done for
thousands of years.
They eat well, breeding goats, pigs and fowl and grow an
array of vegetables to supplement an abundance of seafood, paw paws and
coconuts.
I had occasion to spend some time with them while conducting
search and rescue missions in the area. Their culinary skills surpass that of
any urban restaurateur.
There is no finer example of the human race than an
indigenous native unaffected by modern values. Kids flash brilliantly white
teeth, women’s back hair glistens in the sun, yet there is no fluoride added to
their water, no shampoos or hair conditioners, just coconut soap and charcoal.
These magnificent people will remain part of their pristine
environment for a thousand more years, simply because they possess nothing of
value to foreigners.
West-Papuan natives lived a similar idyllic lifestyle...
that is until men from other lands, as far away as Britain, discovered copper,
gold and gas below their gardens and made friends with Indonesia, supplying it
with arms to kill hundreds of thousands of those who wanted to keep their land
and develop a proud nation from their mineral wealth.
But mere natives could not be afforded such a luxury, so
West Papua became a lawless Indonesian killing field without any international
penalty or oversight.
Britain and the US could not be seen to be conducting the
genocide of a potential nation of people, nor could Australia, who also had a
dirty finger in the minerals pie.
Mines have poisoned rivers and moon-scaped vast areas of
West Papuans’ homelands. (pictured is West Papua’s Grasberg mine, one of the
world’s largest gold mines). No compensation to the natives... only billions in
payola going into the Indonesian Government’s coffers. Natives’ complaints are
simply silenced with a hail of bullets.
UK PM, David Cameron, when visiting Indonesia in 2012, said,
“Indonesia has transformed itself in the past decade into one of the world’s
most important democracies, with a free media and elections. The military no
longer plays a role in politics, but fulfils its proper role defending the
country from external attack.” What a load of British bullshit uttered on
behalf of the massive British Petroleum company!
There is no more brutal a military than Indonesia’s when
allowed to occupy a region and routinely slaughter natives who have merely
demanded a right to self-determination. Yet the West fawns over so-called
“progress” made by the world’s “foremost emerging democracy”.
When the Suharto dictatorship fell 17 years ago, Britain’s
Labour Party discarded its arms embargo and allowed British-built aircraft to
be used to slaughter the people of East Timor from the air.
Other arms companies then began trading with Indonesia for
the first time in more than a decade once they realised the extent of the
area’s mineral wealth.
With the Timorese invasion eventually having been settled in
favour of Timor’s sovereignty, the Indonesian militia kept their guns trained
on West Papua. They remain there, raping, torturing and killing hundreds of
thousands of innocents with complete impunity.
Australian-supplied helicopters were used to kill 5,000
highland natives with no more than bows and arrows for protection, yet no
reports surface because no journalists are permitted entry to West Papua.
According to the World Bank, West Papua’s regional GDP is
50% higher than the national average while the people living there are among
the poorest in all Oceania.
The Bali two will be forgotten by week’s end with Australia
returning to its craven support of this decadent Islamic nation, gifting it
hundreds of millions in unneeded aid... aid that was spent on building the very
madrassas that schooled and trained the Bali bombers.
Contrary to what Abbott believes, Indonesia is no threat to
Australia, neither in a military nor a trade sense. Indonesia has no middle
class economy, only the very corrupt rich and the very indigent poor who have
no bridge to improvement.
Indonesia maintains only loose trade alliances with its
neighbours via ASEAN and no ability to deploy a meaningful military force from
18,000 disparate islands. The corrupt rich of Islamic nations will never fight
and the poor neither know how to nor do they want to.
The bluff continues to Indonesia’s credit and to our
shameful discredit.
It’s hard to trust the sincerity of Tony Abbott’s Aboriginal
conscience when he openly supports the genocide of another indigenous people
who are nearby and equally linked to their lands.
All trust in Labor died with Whitlam and the Balibo five.
Australians with a conscience should be concerned that this
genocide of a beautiful people continues.
... but they should be horrified that Australia is openly
supporting it. The Pickering Post
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