Quarterly Essay 7 Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for Independence

In Paradise Betrayed John Martinkus details what is being done to West Papua by its Indonesian overlords. He illustrates how those who seek independence are killed and tortured for their cause. There is now no one like the Papuan leader Theys Eluay, murdered in 2001 by the Indonesian military, and a campaign of death and terror has been launched on those who raise the Morning Star flag.

Martinkus shows how the wealth of the Freeport mine underpins a regimen of repression and he r…