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Friendly reminder that Australia has supplied arms to Indonesia who is currently carrying out a genocide in West Paupa & deny refugees from West Paupa a visa and stick them in internment camps where they live in horrid conditions.

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hey uh what the actual fuck

(warning, there is a LOT of heavy content in this video! this video discusses what probably constitutes as actual war crimes and shows images of actual corpses, so be warned. if anyone knows the relevant tags i need to add to this for the sake of people's tag blocklists, please let me know)

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West Papua: The Genocide that is Being Ignored by the World

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Al Jazeera English has videos about West Papua situation, its called "Selling Out West Papua | 101 East" and "Indonesia to deploy more troops to troubled Papua region". There they explain that Indonesian soldiers monitor and attack indigenous people and allow the deforestation of the lands selling it to several South Korean companies. West Papua is the land of indigenous black people, anti-blackness is huge in south Asia too. I saw Indonesians speaking about Papuans like they are wild animals😭

here's the first video

and here's the closest I could find to the second one

thanks for giving me the heads up I'll try to keep a closer eye on al jazeera.

mod ali

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Forgotten Bird of Paradise (2009) dir. Dominic Brown

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south korea, europe, australia and new zealand have all directly funded indonesia's genocide against west papuans.

south korea in particular has been directly responsible for the devestating deforestation of rain forests in west papua from their palm oil industry, and from 2009 to 2019, south korea has been the largest exporter of weapons to indonesian forces (source from waronwestpapua.org).

https://humanrightspapua.org/news/2020/palm-oil-conglomerate-korindo-accused-of-clearing-rainforest-in-west-papua-with-fire/

https://www.waronwestpapua.org/

https://en.antaranews.com/news/171986/indonesia-south-korea-concur-on-intensifying-military-cooperation

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Me watching Episode 4 of Gen V like :

I feel like someone’s already done this before

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How to improve your story

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Anyone else develop a complex after years of being ignored that made you feel like you didn't want to exist and getting attention from people began upsetting you? So you began isolating yourself more and more and decided you were a misanthrope by age 12 and hated humanity and wasn't human? Yeah I was a wolf kid what of it, fucker? 😂

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emotional neglect is fucking Wack cuz u open up about it and it just sounds like ur whining like "mommy and daddy didnt pay enough attention to me :(((" but no, it's a realass issue that caused u long-term psychological damage and you dont know how to word it

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I swear if someone looked me in the eye and outright told me "I matter".... I would just black out bc wtf.. Why is it so hard to believe that I matter its just such a foreign concept, I can't wrap it around my brain

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I’m done lighting myself on fire to keep others warm.

They never asked me too,

they don’t want me too,

but I can’t help it.

I was trained as a child to preform this service.

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When I talk about my feelings I often have to use English instead of my native language

Which says a lot about how much room was given to my feelings as a child. When I was about 13 to 14 my English became good enough to be online, and to talk to people here about my life.

So that's when and where I learned how to express my feelings, maybe later, but not earlier and never irl.

Kinda sad tbh

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She sits small,

curled in on herself,

back braced on a tree,

gently weeping

She sits broken,

hugging herself,

soul braced with courage,

softly singing

The nearby library,

a refuge,

The grove of trees,

a shelter,

Fifteen minutes of peace

in the books

Fifteen minutes of safety

in the shade

A quarter of an hour

Before she’ll be missed

Enough time for a book and a tree

And a breath of clean, fearless air

I wish I could tell her

She isn’t as small as she looks

I wish I could tell her

She isn’t as broken as she feels

Let me reach through the veil

For a fragment of a moment

Let me be the wind on her cheek

Whispering a glimmer of hope

She doesn’t know I’m here

Always here, looking back at her

Maybe she wouldn’t recognize me

So changed, so different from her

She, the haunting of my past

I, the muttering of her future

“Someday, someone will be proud of me”

Her voice echoing through the years

“Little one, I am proud of you”

I hope she can hear me

I hope I can hear me