This Thursday 26th November, the Dancing Turtle Media produced undercover documentary ‘Forgotten Bird of Paradise’ will show at the United Nations ‘We The Peoples’ Film Festival, currently being held at locations across London.

The festival takes its title from the opening words of the United Nations Charter.

The festival, which is now in its fourth year, strives to raise the profile of the United Nations by promoting its aims and work in development, security and human rights to new and existing audiences by inspiring and educating them through film.

Films showing at the festival cover themes including environment and peace, human rights and development.

Forgotten Bird of Paradise will be shown at 6pm at a special viewing taking place at the London School Of Economics (LSE). Entry is free, though booking is required.

For more information on the festival visit www.wethepeoples.org.uk

It’s deeply disturbing to hear the latest reports coming through from West Papua where the indigenous Papuan population have endured a brutal and genocidal Indonesian occupation for over 40 years.

West Papua is a country where peaceful Papuan protestors are routinely tortured and imprisoned by Indonesia for up to 15 years for doing little more than raising an independence flag!! In the latest episode, the Indonesian regime have refused drinking water and food to two political prisoners (Seblon Sambom and Buchtar Tabuni) for over 3 days now, for no reason other than because these two men support a peaceful democratic process called the International Parliamentarians for West Papua.

Meanwhile, in the highlands hundreds of Papuans remain in hiding in the jungle after Indonesian army and police raids during which villages were burnt down and livestock killed.

These latest actions appear to show that Indonesia is running scared of growing international condemnation for the occupation of West Papua and the growing number of people who are outraged at the genocide they have carried out in West Papua.

Let us hope that these latest actions will put Indonesia on a collision course with the United Nations to whom it is reported that these latest actions are currently being investigated by.