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West Papua - Free to Choose

Submitted by rains on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 10:46
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A documentary about the human rights struggle in West Papua (formerly western New Guinea-now annexed by Indonesia). And where, for 40 years a brutal military have suppressed with horrific violence the native Melanesian people.
This film shows how Freeport-McMoRan Corporation is destroying the sacred ancestral homeland of the Amungme tribe and much of the surrounding Papuan rain-forest, rivers and coastline, while the people of West Papua struggle for their survival.

Shown at: Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2008

Filmmaker: Craig Harris and exiled journalist Octovianus Mote
Editor: Richard Elfman
Artists: The dispossessed West Papua People
Copyright: © Craig Harris
Duration: 10m 40s
Dimensions: 480 x 360 Ratio: 4:3

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