Vigil for West Papua

THE Pacific Network on Globalisation yesterday organised a vigil remembering the people of West Papua while creating awareness of the organisation's "We Bleed Black and Red" campaign.

The campaign, launched in July, remembers people suffering from suppression and other injustices in West Papua.

With December 1 marked as the global day of action to raise the West Papua flag, the organisation with the help of the Pacific Council of Churches and other interested members of the public organised a vigil at the PANG office to remember those suffering in their own country because of suppression.

PANG campaign co-ordinator Joey Tau said the vigil featured students from the University of the South Pacific, members of the two PCC, PANG and Pacific Islanders.

"Today (yesterday) marks the global day of action in raising the West Papua flag — the Morning Star — and so we organised a vigil to remember our West Papuan sisters and brothers," he said.

"The vigil is part of our campaign, and the campaign uses any form of art which is our way of protesting, this is our way of acknowledging today's global day of action."

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