He might have just been put on an Interpol “wanted” list but West Papuan independence activist Benny Wenda has more important issues on his mind. UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

BENNY WENDA: Yeah, this—yes, I make a comment and statement on that, because it’s like he’s not trying to explain what the real—what real situation in West Papua.

Oxford-based Benny Wenda, 37, leads a political movement for the independence of his native West Papua, an Indonesian province on the island of New Guinea. The red notice, which meant he could be ...

LONDON -- Global policing body Interpol has dropped a wanted notice for an Indonesian dissident after authorities ruled the case against him was “predominantly political in nature.” Benny ...

The exiled leader, Benny Wenda has been nominated as interim president of West Papua Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Benny Wenda has been declared the interim president of a West Papuan ‘government-in-waiting’, and tells Chantal Da Silva, Indonesia’s in the province is ‘illegal’ ...

One man is in Scotland to see the kind of referendum he wants for West Papua. "This campaign is about my life," he tells Nick Miller.

Benny Wenda participates in a Black Lives Matter protest at Hyde Park in response to the death of ... Wenda’s campaign focuses mostly on self-determination and gaining independence from what ...

IT HAS been an incredible journey for exiled West Papuan leader Benny Wenda. From a childhood spent living in poverty in the mountains where he witnessed his auntie being raped by Indonesian soldiers ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Benny Wenda, chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, said he issued a circular containing instructions that Papuans should not take part in the August 17 ...

Benny Wenda has horrible memories of his childhood days in West Papua and relates chilling stories of his village being bombed by the Indonesian military. Submit. Subscribe for just 30¢ a day; ...