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Comment by markdown

3 days ago

Sounds wonderful if you're OK with Indonesia's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of West Papua.

> Widespread atrocities committed by Indonesian forces have led human rights groups to describe the situation as a genocide against the indigenous Papuan population. Reports of mass killings, forced displacement, and sexual violence are extensive and credible. According to a 2007 estimate by scholar De R. G. Crocombe, between 100,000 and 300,000 Papuans have been killed since Indonesia's occupation began.[19][23] A 2004 report by Yale Law School argued that the scale and intent of Indonesia’s actions fall within the legal definition of genocide.[24] State violence has targeted women in particular. A 2013 and 2017 study by AJAR and the Papuan Women's Working Group found that 4 in 10 Papuan women reported suffering state abuse,[25] while a 2019 follow-up found similar results.[26][27][Note 1][Note 2]

> In 2022, the UN condemned what it described as "shocking abuses" committed by the Indonesian state, including the killing of children, disappearances, torture, and large-scale forced displacement. It called for "urgent and unrestricted humanitarian aid to the region."[28] Human Rights Watch (HRW) has noted that the Papuan region functions as a de facto police state, where peaceful political expression and independence advocacy are met with imprisonment and violence.[29] While some analysts argue that the conflict is aggravated by a lack of state presence in remote areas,[30] the overwhelming trend points to systemic state violence and neglect.

> Indonesia continues to block foreign access to the Papuan region, citing so-called "safety and security concerns", though critics argue this is to suppress international scrutiny of its genocidal practices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_conflict

  BLACKWATER

  Angwi fled his mountain home, the soldiers, as they burnt his village down, near the border line.
  He’s left the card games by the valley fire, the stories that his uncle told, the stories old, the spirits past.
  He’s seen the land taken away and given to the Java men; they’ve flown them in from distant lands.
  Angwi fears for his people’s songs, the nights they danced the valley strong; the hunding grounds, steep mountain side.

  slash and burn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrciT3lXtwE

Tabaran: Recorded Pacific Gold Studios, Rabaul, PNG, July to August ‘88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX5p1sjvW6s

Is there any place you can go now that isn't doing a genocide? USA is out, Europe is out, Russia is out, China is out. Obviously the middle east is out. Most of Africa. Australia? They're strongly aligned with the USA though. And they did one in the past. Tiny Pacific islands but they're basically USA colonies?