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Kark will be riding from London to Edinburgh in May to raise money for Friends of the Earth. Please help him with this mammoth effort by clicking on this link.
‘I asked myself ‘why?’ Who are these people? And why do they do this to us? Why do they kill my people? Why
do they rape my aunties?’ Benny Wenda
Benny Wenda of the Free West Papua Campaign spoke to us last night. Benny is a tribal leader from West Papua who is campaigning against land grabbing in his country. He talked movingly about how major companies. supported by the Indonesian government and military, are raping his land and cutting down the forest to grow palm oil and how people are displaced. It is always moving to meet someone who has given up so much for their people, but Benny’s story moved me particularly as his family has been destroyed and a silent genocide is happening so that we can have palm oil in our biscuits and margerine.
Benny lives here in Oxford and Friends of the Earth International are supporting him, along with our local MP Andrew Smith. Please help by clicking the link above and taking action.
