Senate debates
Tuesday, 20 June 2006
West Papua
3:55 pm
Kerry Nettle (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
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.