Six West Papuans are to be charged with ‘subversion’ after peacefully raising the banned West Papuan independence symbol, the Morning Star flag. The protest took place in the town of Fakfak, which is 550 miles to the west of the capital, Jayapura.
Evidence of an uncontacted tribe living in the remote Peruvian Amazon has been found by the Peruvian government’s natural resources department, INRENA.
Doctors fear that the number of Papuans living with HIV/AIDS far exceeds the government’s figures.
A secret document accidentally posted on the internet reveals plans to build a series of massive hydroelectric dams in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, submerging the homes of at least a thousand tribal people.
Peru’s national Amazon Indian organisation has expressed its support for Brazilian Indians who have been shot at, bombed, and had their land illegally occupied by powerful rice farmers.
The Matsés, a tribe of 2,500 people living in the remote Peruvian Amazon, have rejected plans by the Peruvian government to explore for oil on their land.
Uncontacted Indians in Peru are being killed and having their houses burned to the ground by illegal loggers, according to a pan-South American Indigenous group.
Eighty-five Brazilian organisations have signed a statement demanding respect for the rights of the Indians of Raposa Serra do Sol, who have been attacked by farmers who want their land.