Tag: Indonesian colonialism
Search for NZ pilot taken hostage by Papuan rebels extended, says Indonesia
RNZ Pacific
The authorities in Indonesia’s Papua region say the search for a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by West Papua Liberation Movement freedom fighters...
Open season again for Indonesian military trolls and ‘fake news’ campaign on West Papua
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie
It is open season again for Indonesian trolls targeting Asia Pacific Report and other media with fake news and...
Thirty years later: David Robie and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
New Zealand journalist and media educator David Robie returns with two books commemorating the sinking of Greenpeace’s iconic campaign ship and the nuclear-free Pacific...
David Robie: Fiji, PNG lead betrayal, but still West Papuans triumph in 2015
COMMENTARY: By David Robie
The Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders’ summit in Honiara this week must go down as the most shameful since the organisation...
Behind the elusive mythmaking over Fiji, West Papua
By David Robie
On the eve of a vital meeting in Port Vila planning a more unified stance over independence in West Papua by disparate...
Archive: Fiji coup 2000: Guns and money [Profile]
The Fijian crisis is not about the rights of ordinary people, says veteran Pacific affairs journalist David Robie, it is about 'a Third World...