Senate debates

Tuesday, 20 June 2006

West Papua

3:55 pm

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by leave—I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a)
notes:
(i)
the increasing conflict in West Papua and the systematic abuse of the human rights of West Papuans by elements of the Indonesian military and police,
(ii)
that many of the same officers that orchestrated the violence during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor are now in West Papua, and
(iii)
that, despite the extensive evidence of crimes against humanity in East Timor under Indonesian occupation, no members of the Indonesian military have been prosecuted;
(b)
expresses concern at ongoing Australian military cooperation with Indonesia while these human rights abuses by elements of the Indonesian military continue; and
(c)
calls on the Government to suspend negotiations on a new security treaty with Indonesia until Indonesian military members involved in human rights abuses are prosecuted.

Question put.