Published On:Monday, June 23, 2014
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Ali joins fight
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| Fiji Women's Crisis Centre co-ordinator Shamima Ali, front, and other staff members with placards in Suva yesterday. They claim they were asked to remove the placards. Picture: JONACANI LALAKOBAU |
ONE of the region's leading human rights activists,
Shamima Ali, has called on Pacific Islanders to make a stand with their
West Papuan brothers and sisters.
The Fiji Women's Crisis Centre executive director Shamima Ali
joined a chorus of voices around the world by displaying posters to free
the women and men whose rights have allegedly been violated by
Indonesia.
Ms Ali said it was important to raise the seriousness
of the matter. Her bid to raise this awareness and stand by the West
Papuans seemed to have rubbed some members of the public the wrong way
and Ms Ali claimed she was issued a directive by police to remove the
posters.
Yesterday, Indonesian Embassy third secretary Berlian
Epriliyana said they would release an official statement on the issue
today.
Police chief operations officer ACP Rusiate Tudravu also said he would prefer not to make a comment on the issue.
"We
put this up because we are a human rights-based organisation and we are
also the chair for the NGO Coalition on Human Rights for Fiji and the
Pacific and we have received quite disturbing reports about human rights
abuses in West Papua from our contacts," Ms Ali said.
"Especially
against women and young children and as part of the campaigns, this is
why we felt we should put down something like this as part of the
campaign on human rights."
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