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daeron

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4. Indonesian not Papuan poaching
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 08:01 PM
Feb 2013

Turtles are a victim of a US scheme in 1962 to mine West Papua, along with the rain forests as the Papuan people are replaced by millions (yes millions) of Indonesians. There have been 100,000's of people killed to silence their plead for freedom. People are fighting for their lives, the Papuan to live and the Indonesians to remove the Papuans; little wonder turtle eggs have joined the victims during the fifty year scheme

The US businessman Robert Lovett and his friend McGeorge Bundy tricked President Kennedy into the deal, a plan to force the Dutch to sign a UN trusteeship agreement which the public was not told was a trusteeship agreement.

Today America has its gold & copper mine and the Papuan people are being ethnically replaced by Indonesians. It is tragic that Chapter XII of the UN Charter does not force lawyers to use the word “trusteeship” in a trusteeship agreement, but article 85 of the UN Charter is the only way that the General Assembly in resolution 1752 (XVII) instead of the Security Council was able to direct UN forces to occupy the colony.

Little wonder France and others refused to vote and Senegal pleaded for its vote to be recorded as opposing res. 1752 (XVII) but the deal was done and for fifty years people as well as turtles have been dying…

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