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5 March

I'm on a HUGE high. This was definitely the best day of the year so far (not difficult actually, given my year so far, but anyway.) I just took a tribal leader from West Papua to the HQ of Zoo Weekly, a crappy little lads mag in London run by and for human pond-life, to demand an apology for a piece they'd recently run, in which they wackily accused the people of West Papua of being orgiastic cannibals. I would have paid good money to see the look on that little weasel of an editor's face when he was confronted by a man in a bird-of-paradise feather headdress showing him pictures of torture victims and demanding an apology. Oh boy.

There'll be a piece in next weeks' New Statesman telling the full story of what happened when we went to visit Zoo. If you don't know about what's happening in West Papua, there's a chapter on it in One No, Many Yeses. And if you live in the UK and would like to do something to help the people there gain their freedom, a group of us are setting a UK campaign group in motion. Email friends@freewestpapua.org for more info.

Posted by paul at March 5, 2004 04:50 PM

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