Benny Wenda

West Papuan activist · Indonesia · On the map · Musicians · Born 1975 · age 51

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Inaugural meeting of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua, 2008

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We’re sick and tired of these stories. The reason they keep using the word ‘cannibal’ about us is because they think we’re savages.
Survival and tribal people denounce ‘ludicrous’ cannibal claims, Own words
If you fell the trees then you destroy human culture as well as the birds of paradise. People depend on the forest and the forest has always depended on us. We are as one.
As forests are cleared and species vanish, there's one other loss: a world of languages, Own words