02/10/2015
PLEASE SHARE- This is a photo the Indonesian government does not want you to see.
The Grasberg mine, owned by US company Freeport-McMoRan funding genocide and illegal Indonesian occupation in West Papua.
A gaping wound in the heart of West Papua, which was once a beautiful and sacred mountain, capped by a glacier, is visible from space.
EVERY DAY: This mine pumps over 200,000 TONNES of toxic waste into the local river system and EVERY YEAR it pays the Indonesian military over 3 MILLION US Dollars to keep West Papuan people away.
The work is also incredibly unsafe and unfair, whilst all of the mine owners are either American or Indonesian, the Papuans are given the most dangerous and low paid jobs. In 2013 alone, over 29 people were killed in 2 mining disasters.
When workers went on strike in 2011, they were beaten and shot at by police, at least one worker was killed.
Freeport is Indonesia's biggest taxpayer and all the proceeds are channeled to Jakarta, whilst Papuans become poorer and poorer in their own land.
During the start of operations here, thousands of local Papuans were killed and evicted by the Indonesian military just to make way for this monstrous mine.
This only adds to the 500,000+ innocent West Papuan men, women and children who have so far been murdered by the Indonesian military, only for expressing their desire to live in a free and independent nation of West Papua.
Even for just raising the West Papuan national flag, West Papuans are given jail sentences by the Indonesian authorities of 15 years.
Indonesia - stop the theft of West Papua's natural resources and destruction of the West Papuan land!
To find out how you can help the suffering people of Wets Papua, please visit the website of the Free West Papua Campaign here: freewestpapua.org/ and here: http://freewestpapua.org/take-action/
Help to stop this 21st century genocide.
You can also sign the Global Free West Papua Petition here: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/SecretaryGeneral_of_the_United_Nations_Antonio_Guterres_End_the_Genocide_in_West_Papua/