Sun, 09/30/2007 - Dear friends of West Papua, We, from fPcN Germany, the German Free West Papua Campaign, got the opportunity to present a video at the Biennale in Venice at September 6th 2007, 11.35 am under the theme: “The cultural Dimension of Sustainability – Towards an Ecology of Culture”. Afterwards, there is room for discussion with the filmmaker Steffen Keulig, the “jungle child” Sabine Kuegler, a famous writer from Germany as well as with Benny Wenda, the chairman of the Koteka Tribal Assembly and chair of the Free West Papua Campaign UK.

The title of our video is: “West Papua - The secret war in Asia”
The content is the forgotten war against tribal people on the island of Papua New Guinea. West Papua is occupied by Indonesia and exploited by multinational companies. Since 1963, the West Papuans struggle for their independence from Indonesia. Until today, at least 100.000 Papuans lost their lives in this secret war.

It is a great privilege for as all because the Venice Biennale is the biggest Art Exhibition in the world. It would be very helpful if all West Papua independence groups and organisations could advertise this event in their mailing lists and web sites.

Steffen Keulig
Chairman of Freunde der Naturvölker e.V.
German Branch of the
World Wide Network "friends of Peoples close to Nature"
Katzenstr. 2
D-21335 Lüneburg
Germany
Email: FdN [at] fPcN-global.org
Tel: +49 (0) 4131 68 22 32
Mobil: +49 (0)17624022969
http://www.naturvoelker.org
http://www.freewestpapua.org