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Fiji government critics may be excluded from democracy talks
By: RIcardo Morris, Radio Australia, March 25, 2009
Fiji's deputy army commander has threatened to exclude political parties and non-government organisations that are critical of the military-led regime from talks to return the country to democracy. The army's Land Force Commander Colonel Pita Driti has called on the ousted SDL party, the National Federation Party and NGOs to stop attacking the military and the interim government.
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Reporters on Papua protests freed
By: BBC, March 25, 2009
Four Dutch journalists have been freed by police in Indonesia's West Papua. They had been covering pro-independence protests and the return of independence leader, Nicholas Jouwe, after 40 years of exile in the Netherlands.
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Thousands rally in Indonesia's Papua, demand referendum
By: Thomson Reuters, Forbes, March 24, 2009
Over a thousand people rallied in Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, on Tuesday demanding a referendum on independence from Indonesia and rejecting the forthcoming elections, a Reuters witness said. Independence activists in resources-rich Papua, on the western half of New Guinea island, have waged a campaign to separate from Indonesia for decades.
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Oppression still rife in West Papua
By: The Age, March 23, 2009
Recent reports from Indonesia's West Papua of a raid on a military post by separatist fighters, and the news that a former West Papuan leader, Nicolaas Jouwe, has returned to Indonesia calling for a new dialogue on West Papua's political status, again draw attention to the long-running grievances of the Melanesian population.
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Fiji: 'It was stones, now it's Molotov cocktails'
By: John Liebhardt, Global Voices, March 23, 2009
In the weeks between late January and mid-March, at least six people in Fiji who could be termed "public opponents" of the country's military-backed government have been targeted by unidentified individuals who late at night have thrown large stones at their houses and severally damaged their cars and other property.
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