See no evil : New Zealand's betrayal of the people of West Papua /
This is a participant history of the struggle for indigenous rights in West Papua, New Guinea, against exploitation and "slow-motion genocide" by Indonesian and New Zealand elites. Using recently declassified documents, the manuscript charts the evolution of New Zealand foreign policy to f...
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Cincinnati :
University of Cincinnati Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- From the Pleistocene period to the intrusion of the outside world
- The Indonesian War of Independence and the West New Guinea dispute
- The promise of decolonisation
- Future in the balance: New Zealand takes a stand
- The rise of the morning star: hope gives way to betrayal
- The New York Agreement paves the way for an Indonesian takeover
- West Irian out of the headlines: Konfrontasi a new challenge for New Zealand
- Indonesia's killing fields
- Indonesia has the upper hand: 1966-68
- The act of free choice: neither free nor a choice
- Repression and armed resistance after the act of free choice
- The 1980s: a dark and desperate decade
- Suharto goes but thwarted hope for West Papua
- Change is in the air
- New Zealand chooses the wrong partners, but West Papuans find Pacific allies
- Conclusion.