DARIUS SHAHTAHMASEBI – WEST PAPUA: THE GENOCIDE THAT IS BEING IGNORED BY THE WORLD

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All the media and Western politicians are interested in is how bad China or Russia are, but Indonesia is in the Western camp and so its atrocities in West Papua are ignored.An American mining company is making billions stripping a West Papuan gold mine. West Papua was annexed by Indonesia and the rights of its gold mine was given to an American company. The West Papuans are some of poorest people in the world, while their gold mine is one of the largest in the world. West Papua is home to one of the world’s largest gold mines (and third largest copper mine), known as the Grasberg Mine. Grasberg is majority-owned by the American mining firm Freeport McMoRan. It has reserves worth an estimated 0 billion, and the company is Indonesia’s biggest taxpayer. Money and geopolitics usually beat

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