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West Papua - A Journey to Freedom

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Posted by Herman Wainggai on Sep. 9, 2012

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WEST PAPUA - A JOURNEY TO FREEDOM encapsulates the political activism of Herman Wainggai, a young West Papuan independence leader and mentor of the non-violent students movement in West Papua, as he journeys from Melbourne, Australia, to an isolated refugee camp on the North Coast of Papua New Guinea.

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