Last night, information was revealed that Yunus and Anike Wainggai left AUSTRALIAN shores and landed in the INDONESIAN capital, Jakarta.
If they have been coerced in any way, and this looks highy likely given the circumstances Australian Law and Security has been compromised.
Coincidently, Monday the 1st of December is "West Papuan Indepencdance Day".
Meet outside the Indonesian Consultate on Monday, at 11.00am, located at 72 Queens Rd, Melbourne. Bring banners and all your friends, we need to make this public and get the media attention it deserves.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Friday, November 28, 2008
The Sydney Morning Herald Reports on Yunus and Anike
Claims refugees want to return to Papua disputed
this article is taken from the SMH
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/claims-refugees-want-to-return-to-papua-disputed/2008/11/27/1227491736659.htmlTWO refugees who were among 43 Papuans who ignited an international diplomatic row when they were granted asylum in 2006 are seeking to return to Indonesia.
Yunus Wanggai is believed to be negotiating with Indonesian authorities in Canberra for him and his daughter to be re-united with his wife, Siti Pandera Wanggai, who has disappeared in Vanuatu.
But Papuan activists fear Indonesia may have put pressure on Mr Wanggai to return for "propaganda purposes" to discredit Australia's protection visa regime, and quash concerns about the persecution of pro-independence groups in Papua.
It is understood Mr Wanggai has not been in touch with his lawyer for two weeks, and his decision to return is at odds with recent moves to become a permanent resident in Australia.
Mr Wanggai and his daughter, Anike, now seven, were among 43 asylum seekers who arrived at Cape York in January 2006, and were found to have well-founded fears of persecution.
The decision to issue the Papuans with protection visas provoked a furious response from Indonesia; the President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, recalled his ambassador in protest.
Four months later Mrs Wanggai, who stayed in Papua, was at the centre of a media storm when she said she was coerced by an Indonesian intelligence officer into making a false appeal for the return of her daughter.
She escaped to Papua New Guinea and then Vanuatu and had applied to be reunited with her family in Australia through the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR. However, it is believed she disappeared from Vanuatu in October after becoming frustrated by delays in the process.
The leader of the 43 Papuans, Herman Wanggai, said he had had no contact with Yunus and Anike for 10 days. "I am really concerned about their safety. My concern is particularly related to my niece, Anike," Mr Wanggai said. "I don't believe they want to go back to Indonesia … Maybe Indonesia tried to pressure him to use for propaganda to criticise the legal system in Australia."
Frances Walton, the Melbourne foster mother of four of the Papuans, said Yunus had a well-grounded fear of returning to Indonesia as the Wanggai family had a history of involvement in the independence struggle for Papua. "Many members have been jailed for 15 years for raising the Morning Star flag, a symbol of freedom from Indonesian rule," Ms Walton said.
The latest developments come two months after two other Papuan refugees, Hana Gobay and Yubel Kareni, returned to Indonesian voluntarily. The pair reportedly told Indonesian media they came to Australia for a university education and not to flee human rights abuses.
In August the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Hassan Wirayuda, told the Herald their return would be "good for both Australia and Indonesia".
A spokesman for Indonesia's embassy in Canberra, Dino Kusnadi, said he was unable to comment. "My guidelines say that I should respect the rights of Yunus Wanggai to not engage in the media," he said.
Mr Wanggai's lawyer, David Manne, had no comment.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/claims-refugees-want-to-return-to-papua-disputed/2008/11/27/1227491736659.html
THE AGE REPORTS ON YUNUS AND ANIKE....
this article is taken from The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/national/papuan-refugees-want-to-go-back-20081127-6k2q.html?page=-1
Jewel Topsfield and Tom Allard
November 28, 2008
http://www.theage.com.au/national/papuan-refugees-want-to-go-back-20081127-6k2q.html?page=-1
Claims refugees want to return to Papua disputed
TWO refugees who were among 43 Papuans caught in a diplomatic row when they were granted asylum in Australia in 2006 now want to go home.
Yunus Wanggai is believed to be negotiating with Indonesian authorities in Canberra for him and his daughter to be reunited with his wife Siti Pandera Wanggai, who has disappeared from Vanuatu after awaiting permission to come to Australia.
But Papuan activists fear that Jakarta may have put pressure on Mr Wanggai to return to the Indonesian province for "propaganda purposes" to discredit Australia's protection visa regime and quash concerns about the persecution of pro-independence groups in West Papua.
It is understood Mr Wanggai has not been in contact with his lawyer for two weeks, and his decision to return is at odds with recent moves to become a permanent resident of Australia.
A spokeswoman for the Australian Federal Police said they had interviewed Mr Wanggai and his daughter Anike in Canberra on Monday and "had no concerns about their welfare".
"We are not telling anyone where they are," she said. But the AFP denied it was helping Indonesian authorities encourage the two to return to Papua.
Mr Wanggai and Anike, 7, were among 43 asylum seekers who arrived at Cape York in January 2006, and were found to have well-founded fears of persecution. However, a decision to issue the Papuans with protection visas provoked a furious response from Indonesia, with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono recalling his ambassador in protest.
Four months later, Mrs Wanggai, who stayed in West Papua, was at the centre of a media storm when she claimed she was coerced by an Indonesian intelligence officer into making a false appeal for the return of her daughter.
She escaped to Papua New Guinea and then Vanuatu, and had applied to be reunited with her family in Australia through refugee agency UNHCR. But it is believed she disappeared from Vanuatu in October after becoming frustrated by delays.
In a signed statement dated yesterday and obtained by The Age, Mrs Wanggai said Australia's failure to allow her to become a refugee and join her husband in Melbourne had prompted her decision. She also said she wanted to return to Papua's capital, Jayapura, to care for her ailing older daughter.
But a leading figure in the Melbourne-based West Papuan independence movement, Nick Chesterfield said he had doubts about the authenticity of the letter, and whether it was obtained under duress. He said he had spoken to Mr Wanggai and Anike the night before they "disappeared" on November 15. "We are concerned they have been coerced," he said.
A spokesman for Indonesia's embassy in Canberra, Dino Kusnadi, said he was unable to comment at this stage.
Mr Wanggai's lawyer, David Manne, said he was unable to comment on confidential client matters, but admitted he had serious concerns.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/papuan-refugees-want-to-go-back-20081127-6k2q.html?page=-1
Thursday, November 27, 2008
LETTER TO KEVIN RUDD
Dear Mr Rudd
I apologise for seeking your intervention in the case of the two 'missing' West Papuan asylum-seekers, Yunus and Anike Wainggai, but we now feel obliged, twelve days later, to call for accountability from Australian government departments and agencies involved.
I attach my letter to Stephen Smith (26 Nov 08) for the grounding circumstances. Essentially, Anike and her father have been 'missing' since Saturday 15 November. Victoria Police (at Heidelberg Station) closed the file on Monday 24 November, after the AFP reported the two had walked into a police station in Canberra.
However, the situation stands now, as it did on the day they went missing, where neither we from the West Papuan community in Melbourne nor the Wainggai's lawyer have been able to locate them or contact them. Given our conviction that their disappearance is an Indonesian intelligence operation involving agents in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu as well as Australia, and the matrix of lies and deceit surrounding their removal from Melbourne and events ever since, we now feel it incumbent on the departments of Immigration and Foreign Affairs to prove the government has fulfilled its duty to protect these high-profile refugees, and that Yunus' request to return to Indonesia was voluntarily submitted without pressure or coercion from Indonesian-intelligence agents in Australia or in Vanuatu (where Siti Wainggai, Anike's mother and Yunus' wife, has also 'disappeared'.
Mr Rudd, I do not seek a response to this letter, but do request you assign some critical personnel to bring this case to a satisfactory conclusion.
Yours sincerely,
Louise Byrne
Australia West Papua Assoc (Melbourne)
Tel 04 329 24 212
I apologise for seeking your intervention in the case of the two 'missing' West Papuan asylum-seekers, Yunus and Anike Wainggai, but we now feel obliged, twelve days later, to call for accountability from Australian government departments and agencies involved.
I attach my letter to Stephen Smith (26 Nov 08) for the grounding circumstances. Essentially, Anike and her father have been 'missing' since Saturday 15 November. Victoria Police (at Heidelberg Station) closed the file on Monday 24 November, after the AFP reported the two had walked into a police station in Canberra.
However, the situation stands now, as it did on the day they went missing, where neither we from the West Papuan community in Melbourne nor the Wainggai's lawyer have been able to locate them or contact them. Given our conviction that their disappearance is an Indonesian intelligence operation involving agents in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu as well as Australia, and the matrix of lies and deceit surrounding their removal from Melbourne and events ever since, we now feel it incumbent on the departments of Immigration and Foreign Affairs to prove the government has fulfilled its duty to protect these high-profile refugees, and that Yunus' request to return to Indonesia was voluntarily submitted without pressure or coercion from Indonesian-intelligence agents in Australia or in Vanuatu (where Siti Wainggai, Anike's mother and Yunus' wife, has also 'disappeared'.
Mr Rudd, I do not seek a response to this letter, but do request you assign some critical personnel to bring this case to a satisfactory conclusion.
Yours sincerely,
Louise Byrne
Australia West Papua Assoc (Melbourne)
Tel 04 329 24 212
Anike and Yunus Wainggai in indymedia.....
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/west-papuan-refugees-coerced-return
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
What is the point having an Asylum System if we cannot protect people from the threat and coercions that have been made?
The AFP are currently believed to be holding Yunus and Anike at a secure location. If anyone knows of this location, or any AFP safe house in Canberra, or Hotel, please imediately contact 0409 268 978 from a public phone. Disclosure of such information IS NOT illegal in circumstances of an illegal removal from Australia.
WE NEED TO ACT NOW
The hours to their imminient removal are closing in, and it is increasingly obvious the AFP is conniving with Indonesia on this one. Why is the AFP refusing to allow legal representation and verification of consent? What have they to hide?
I asked the Indonesian consulate if they could guarentee Yunus, Anikes and the Wainggai families' safety for the duration of this, but they refused to. Maybe everyone needs to call the Indonesian Embassy constantly (fill up their machines) or fax them Tel. + 612 - 62508600 Fax. + 612 - 62736017 to ask them why they are doing this, and will they guarentee Anike's Safety.
Also, we need etreme pressure on the Australian government. At no stage have we been able to satifactorily or independently verfy the voluntariness of Yunus return, and failure to establish this is contrary to Australia's refugee laws.
Fax the AFP, ring them until they enable independent verification of voluntary return.
..Nick..
I asked the Indonesian consulate if they could guarentee Yunus, Anikes and the Wainggai families' safety for the duration of this, but they refused to. Maybe everyone needs to call the Indonesian Embassy constantly (fill up their machines) or fax them Tel. + 612 - 62508600 Fax. + 612 - 62736017 to ask them why they are doing this, and will they guarentee Anike's Safety.
Also, we need etreme pressure on the Australian government. At no stage have we been able to satifactorily or independently verfy the voluntariness of Yunus return, and failure to establish this is contrary to Australia's refugee laws.
Fax the AFP, ring them until they enable independent verification of voluntary return.
..Nick..
ABC REPORTS ON ANIKE AND YUNUS.......
taken from abc news
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/Papuan asylum seekers pursuing Indonesia repatriation
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/
Updated
Members of a group of over 40 Papuans who were granted temporary protection visas after landing on Cape York in Northern Australia in 2006 are seeking to return to Indonesia.
Yunus Wanggai and his daughter Anike have been negotiating their repatriation with the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra.
In January 2006, 43 Papuans landed a boat in Cape York and promptly claimed asylum - all were eventually granted temporary protection visas.
The incident sparked an intense diplomatic stoush, peaking with Indonesia's recall of its ambassador to Canberra.
In late September two of the asylum seekers, Hana Gobay and Yubel Kareni suddenly returned to Papua.
Indonesia claimed this as evidence of the improving situation in Papua.
Others close to the couple claim their return had more to do with their avoiding legal issues arising from domestic violence while in Australia.
Now another two of the 43, Yunus Wanggai and his seven-year old daughter, Anike, are also understood to be negotiating repatriation with the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra.
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Papuan-Australian community seek missing refugees
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/
Updated
Police in the Australian state of Victoria say they are investigating the disappearance of two refugees from the Indonesian state of Papua.
Australia Network correspondent Jeff Waters reports that Yunus Wainggai and his seven-year-old daughter, Anike, went missing from their Melbourne home six days ago.
They were two of 42 people who were granted asylum after arriving in Australia by open boat in 2006.
Members of the Papuan refugee community in Melbourne say they are gravely concerned for the little girl and her father, who is due to have surgery for tuberculosis.
Victorian Police are asking anyone who knows their whereabouts to contact them immediately.
PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS NEWS FEED TAKEN FROM THE ABC
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/
JAKARTA LEAK
JAKARTA LEAK/2 West Papuans returning to Indonesia
According to a radio report this morning from ABC's Geoff Thompson in Jakarta, after his meeting late last night with the Indonesian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Anike and Yunus Wainggai are returning to Indonesia 'to see Yunus' sick daughter in West Papua' but are still in the hands of Australian authorities.
The Australia West Papua Association believes that Yunus only has one daughter Anika. (However, his wife Siti has a 24-year old daughter in West Papua who has been sick for six or seven months).
Yunus and Anike disappeared from Melbourne on Saturday 115 November, and have not been seen since. Yunus has still not seen his lawyer David Manne, with whom he filed a permanent residency application two days before he and Anike disappeared. Yunus sent a message from his location last Friday that he would like to see his lawyer.
Concerns have increased that his and Anike's imminent departure from Australia has been coerced by Indonesian intelligence agents who are still operating with impunity in Melbourne and other parts of Australia. Both the Department of Foreign Affairs and Immigraiton are denying they know where the two are located.
Below is a letter of concern sent this morning to Stephen Smith (Minister for Foreign Affairs) from Louise Byrne (Australia West Papua Association-Melbourne)
6 November 2008
Hon. Stephen Smith MP
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Dear Sir,
You are, I believe, aware of widespread concerns about Yunus Wainggai and his seven year-old daughter Anike, two of the forty-three West Papuan asylum seekers. I attach my diary of events, which demonstrates their disappearance from Melbourne ten days ago, with the detention in Port Moresby, by PNG National Intelligence, of a delegation of the West Papua National Authority led by Drs. Jacob Rumbiak enroute to Vanuatu. Both operations, you will note, were instigated by Andy Ayamiseba in Vanuatu, a well known 'operator' in Port Vila, with Joanna Yumeri (from Canberra) and Paula Makabory (from Melbourne). That these three are West Papuans does not mask the imprimateur of Indonesian intelligence, and in fact the Indonesian government as well which has long been funding diplomatic and intelligence operations in Australia for the return of the asylum seekers (Please see my Statement of facts concerning Indonesian intelligence agencies campaign to discredit and harass Dr Jacob Rumbiak within Australia and overseas 2000-2007 which I wrote and distributed to Labor and Liberal politicians, all the justice agencies, and the most recent foreign affairs sub-committee into relations between Indonesia and Australia).
Yunus has most certainly been coerced into his and Anike's removal from their community in Melbourne. He is a simple fisherman, very sick and in pain most of the time, and has at times found it difficult to look after a lively seven-year-old while waiting for his wife Siti to arrive (via UNHCR family re-unification). However, he is an honest man, and I was first alerted to the possibility of Indonesia intelligence involvement by the web of lies and deceit around their disappearance on 15 November 2008, and the obsfucation of their whereabouts ever since.
Mr Smith, I fully appreciate the difficulties being experienced by the Department of Foreign Affairs in dealing with this case (viz a viz the Lombok Treaty). However, I do believe DFAT has the capacity, and perhaps also a moral obligation, to facilitate a meeting between Yunus and his lawyer, David Manne, and the West Papuan leader in Australia, Dr Jacob Rumbiak. As you will note in my diary, Yunus phoned Yohana Rumeri last Friday, asking to see his lawyer, and she relayed his message through an SMS which I have a copy of. Yohana refused, however, to reveal Yunus and Anike's location to the lawyer. Consequently this meeting has not taken place, and we have no assurances that Yunus is not free of pressures that Indonesian intelligence agents would be able to exert.
I believe that such a meeting would remove all suspicions that the Australian government is not fulfilling its duty to protect these high-profile asylum seekers (who two days before they disappeared met their lawyer and filled in their permanent residency applications!). We ourselves are unable to organise such a meeting, because we do not know where Yunus and Anike are. Yesterday an Indonesian intelligence officer at the Embassy in Canberra said “they are not in our embassy, they are with the Australian authorities”. However, numerous officials we contacted in our Department of Immigration deny any knowledge of their whereabouts, and more surprisingly are not offering us any assistance in finding them.
I am particularly driven to bring about this meeting, and the assurances it may (or may not) provide to an increasing number of concerned Australians and interested media, because I feel somewhat indebted to little Anike, whose infamous high-five with Steve Fielding brought about Prime Minister Howard's first defeat (the withdrawal of the Migration Amendment legislation from the Senate in 2006).
Yours sincerely,
Louise Byrne
Australia West Papua Assoc—Melbourne
Tel 04329 24 212
The Australia West Papua Association believes that Yunus only has one daughter Anika. (However, his wife Siti has a 24-year old daughter in West Papua who has been sick for six or seven months).
Yunus and Anike disappeared from Melbourne on Saturday 115 November, and have not been seen since. Yunus has still not seen his lawyer David Manne, with whom he filed a permanent residency application two days before he and Anike disappeared. Yunus sent a message from his location last Friday that he would like to see his lawyer.
Concerns have increased that his and Anike's imminent departure from Australia has been coerced by Indonesian intelligence agents who are still operating with impunity in Melbourne and other parts of Australia. Both the Department of Foreign Affairs and Immigraiton are denying they know where the two are located.
Below is a letter of concern sent this morning to Stephen Smith (Minister for Foreign Affairs) from Louise Byrne (Australia West Papua Association-Melbourne)
6 November 2008
Hon. Stephen Smith MP
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Dear Sir,
You are, I believe, aware of widespread concerns about Yunus Wainggai and his seven year-old daughter Anike, two of the forty-three West Papuan asylum seekers. I attach my diary of events, which demonstrates their disappearance from Melbourne ten days ago, with the detention in Port Moresby, by PNG National Intelligence, of a delegation of the West Papua National Authority led by Drs. Jacob Rumbiak enroute to Vanuatu. Both operations, you will note, were instigated by Andy Ayamiseba in Vanuatu, a well known 'operator' in Port Vila, with Joanna Yumeri (from Canberra) and Paula Makabory (from Melbourne). That these three are West Papuans does not mask the imprimateur of Indonesian intelligence, and in fact the Indonesian government as well which has long been funding diplomatic and intelligence operations in Australia for the return of the asylum seekers (Please see my Statement of facts concerning Indonesian intelligence agencies campaign to discredit and harass Dr Jacob Rumbiak within Australia and overseas 2000-2007 which I wrote and distributed to Labor and Liberal politicians, all the justice agencies, and the most recent foreign affairs sub-committee into relations between Indonesia and Australia).
Yunus has most certainly been coerced into his and Anike's removal from their community in Melbourne. He is a simple fisherman, very sick and in pain most of the time, and has at times found it difficult to look after a lively seven-year-old while waiting for his wife Siti to arrive (via UNHCR family re-unification). However, he is an honest man, and I was first alerted to the possibility of Indonesia intelligence involvement by the web of lies and deceit around their disappearance on 15 November 2008, and the obsfucation of their whereabouts ever since.
Mr Smith, I fully appreciate the difficulties being experienced by the Department of Foreign Affairs in dealing with this case (viz a viz the Lombok Treaty). However, I do believe DFAT has the capacity, and perhaps also a moral obligation, to facilitate a meeting between Yunus and his lawyer, David Manne, and the West Papuan leader in Australia, Dr Jacob Rumbiak. As you will note in my diary, Yunus phoned Yohana Rumeri last Friday, asking to see his lawyer, and she relayed his message through an SMS which I have a copy of. Yohana refused, however, to reveal Yunus and Anike's location to the lawyer. Consequently this meeting has not taken place, and we have no assurances that Yunus is not free of pressures that Indonesian intelligence agents would be able to exert.
I believe that such a meeting would remove all suspicions that the Australian government is not fulfilling its duty to protect these high-profile asylum seekers (who two days before they disappeared met their lawyer and filled in their permanent residency applications!). We ourselves are unable to organise such a meeting, because we do not know where Yunus and Anike are. Yesterday an Indonesian intelligence officer at the Embassy in Canberra said “they are not in our embassy, they are with the Australian authorities”. However, numerous officials we contacted in our Department of Immigration deny any knowledge of their whereabouts, and more surprisingly are not offering us any assistance in finding them.
I am particularly driven to bring about this meeting, and the assurances it may (or may not) provide to an increasing number of concerned Australians and interested media, because I feel somewhat indebted to little Anike, whose infamous high-five with Steve Fielding brought about Prime Minister Howard's first defeat (the withdrawal of the Migration Amendment legislation from the Senate in 2006).
Yours sincerely,
Louise Byrne
Australia West Papua Assoc—Melbourne
Tel 04329 24 212
kita semua mencinta mu
dear yunus, anike
who i love with my whole heart
both of you who welcomed me when i come to work with the papuan community like no one else, anike so outgoing and daring and fun, yunus shy but so much gentle and loving.
we love you and and just need to know that you are safe and free and happy..........
still i don't know if you have left by force or choice, but if its your choice, i must tell you this:
if you have chosen to leave, i can't understand why. but neither can i understand what it is to leave your home, to choose to take to the trechourous seas in an outrigger canoo in order to find safety, to end up living in a high rise in a city of 3million people far across the ocean from your wife and your mother. to have your freedom tied up with international politics and the whole entire world when all that you want is a good life for your family.
i can't understand, why our small community in melbourne is getting broken up by all these politics, when we work in politics simply because we love our community and want everyone to be free. please, please know that we want you to come back not because you are betraying one persons politics or another, but because we care for you, want you to be free, and miss you too much.
no, it is not possible for you to betray me politically. i just want you to be free. but it is possible that for you to betray your communities love. please, please if you are free to do so, please call to us, talk to us allow us to wish you luck if you do choose to leave.
i really mean it, we are all just real people, please all you businessmen and politicians and police and intelligence, please don't turn us into pawns
yunus, please just think for anike, and for all her big sisters and brothers who are crying for her too much. call us.
x reuben
who i love with my whole heart
both of you who welcomed me when i come to work with the papuan community like no one else, anike so outgoing and daring and fun, yunus shy but so much gentle and loving.
we love you and and just need to know that you are safe and free and happy..........
still i don't know if you have left by force or choice, but if its your choice, i must tell you this:
if you have chosen to leave, i can't understand why. but neither can i understand what it is to leave your home, to choose to take to the trechourous seas in an outrigger canoo in order to find safety, to end up living in a high rise in a city of 3million people far across the ocean from your wife and your mother. to have your freedom tied up with international politics and the whole entire world when all that you want is a good life for your family.
i can't understand, why our small community in melbourne is getting broken up by all these politics, when we work in politics simply because we love our community and want everyone to be free. please, please know that we want you to come back not because you are betraying one persons politics or another, but because we care for you, want you to be free, and miss you too much.
no, it is not possible for you to betray me politically. i just want you to be free. but it is possible that for you to betray your communities love. please, please if you are free to do so, please call to us, talk to us allow us to wish you luck if you do choose to leave.
i really mean it, we are all just real people, please all you businessmen and politicians and police and intelligence, please don't turn us into pawns
yunus, please just think for anike, and for all her big sisters and brothers who are crying for her too much. call us.
x reuben
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
major development
major development
HI folks,
there has been a major development in the situation with Anike and Yunus. The AFP have located them, but they are still being held incommunicado which is highly suspicious. We are maintaining that until they have access to their lawyer and he is satisfied that they are not being coerced, that they are under threat still.
At this stage we cannot divulge publicly where we believe they are being held, but we have them under surveillance. There is proof of life.
Please stand by for more info today as it happens. However, the threat of imminent removal is still present, so people still need to be on their guard at airports and ports, especially with Garuda flights.
Nick
there has been a major development in the situation with Anike and Yunus. The AFP have located them, but they are still being held incommunicado which is highly suspicious. We are maintaining that until they have access to their lawyer and he is satisfied that they are not being coerced, that they are under threat still.
At this stage we cannot divulge publicly where we believe they are being held, but we have them under surveillance. There is proof of life.
Please stand by for more info today as it happens. However, the threat of imminent removal is still present, so people still need to be on their guard at airports and ports, especially with Garuda flights.
Nick
Monday, November 24, 2008
WATCH ABC TONIGHT FOR STORY ON ANIKE!!
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i just recieved this email.....
i just recieved this email.....
Hey Kati,
I contacted Louise Byrne this morning (after receiving your email) to let her know that I have video footage of Anike that may assist. She then cpntacted the ABC, who contacted me and the footage has now been sent off the Jeff Waters from the ABC for a possible story tonight. Watch ABC news from 7pm tonight!
monday update
updates - Monday
Hi folks,
we are desperately still trying to locate Anike and Yunus. Many leads have been ruled out now, but we are no closer to finding them.
We now have secured Victoria and NSW police assistance on this, and things are in play, but the reality is is they are legally constrained by what they can do. We aren't, as concerned citizens (so long as we don't break the law.)
The MUA, Volunteer coast guard, boaties, and some truck drivers have joined the search, and we have more than a few cabbies out there. And a very positive develpment with the wider Indonesian community.
SO once again, we really need people in Sydney to offer physical assistance for keeping an eye on things. Obviously we need cars, communications, and people wiling to roster on watching. PLease contact me directly on 0409 268 978 if you can help
cheers
Nick
we are desperately still trying to locate Anike and Yunus. Many leads have been ruled out now, but we are no closer to finding them.
We now have secured Victoria and NSW police assistance on this, and things are in play, but the reality is is they are legally constrained by what they can do. We aren't, as concerned citizens (so long as we don't break the law.)
The MUA, Volunteer coast guard, boaties, and some truck drivers have joined the search, and we have more than a few cabbies out there. And a very positive develpment with the wider Indonesian community.
SO once again, we really need people in Sydney to offer physical assistance for keeping an eye on things. Obviously we need cars, communications, and people wiling to roster on watching. PLease contact me directly on 0409 268 978 if you can help
cheers
Nick
MISSING AT RISK OF IMMINENT FORCIBLE REMOVAL FROM AUSTRALIA
The West Papuan community and their supporters in Australia are holding grave fears for the safety of Yunus and Anike Wainggai. We have reasonable suspicion that their disappearance is linked to an ongoing and high-level Indonesian intelligence operation involving the disappearance of other refugees. Anike and Yunus, went missing from their public housing flat in Collingwood Melbourne on Saturday 15 November 2008. Yunus, 39, and Anike, 7, are two of the 43 asylum seekers who landed at Mappoon on the Cape York Peninsula on 18 January 2006. After the media interest their arrival in Australia generated, the Indonesian government withdrew its ambassador, and a major diplomatic and military rift grew between Australia and Indonesia. Ongoing Indonesian intelligence operations within Australia against the 43 asylum seekers and their key supporters have been documented extensively. They are currently believed to be held in Sydney. IF you see either of these people, please inform them of the immediate need to, or assist them to, contact their community in Melbourne; and immediately notify your nearest police officer, and also call 0409 268 978. If you see them at an airport or port, please immediately contact your security supervisor or AFP. If they are with Indonesian nationals please immediately call 000 and 0409 268 978.
THIS MATTER IS URGENT AND LIFE THREATENING
THIS MATTER IS URGENT AND LIFE THREATENING
HELP FIND ANIKE AND YUNUS!!!!
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The West Papuan community and their supporters in Australia are holding
grave fears for the safety of *Yunus* and *Anike Wainggai.* We have
reasonable suspicion that their disappearance is linked to an ongoing
and high-level Indonesian intelligence operation involving the
disappearance of other refugees. Anike and Yunus, went missing from
their public housing flat in Collingwood Melbourne on Saturday 15
November 2008.
Yunus, 39, and Anike, 7, are two of the 43 asylum seekers who landed at
Mappoon on the Cape York Peninsula on 18 January 2006. After the media
interest their arrival in Australia generated, the Indonesian government
withdrew its ambassador, and a major diplomatic and military rift grew
between Australia and Indonesia. Ongoing Indonesian intelligence
operations within Australia against the 43 asylum seekers and their key
supporters have been documented extensively. They are currently believed
to be held in Sydney.
*IF you see either of these people, please inform them of the immediate
need to, or assist them to, contact their community in Melbourne; and
immediately notify your nearest police officer, and also call 0409 268
978. If you see them at an airport or port, please immediately contact
your security supervisor or AFP. If they are with Indonesian nationals
please immediately call 000 and 0409 268 978.*
*THIS MATTER IS URGENT AND LIFE THREATENING
*
*
A FACEBOOK GROUP HAS BEEN STARTED AT
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/156343?m=b6c92252&recruiter_id=6935222*
*
urgent assistance is also required in Sydney : **If you are in in
Sydney, you can help practically. We need people to be on the ground, to
help look, to help with fuel, cash, cars, radios, etc.
Please contact ONLY 0409 268 978 if you can help (and please forward
this widely).*
Two West Papuans of the 43 asylum-seeking group have been missing from Melbourne since last Saturday, and cannot be contacted.
Yunus Wainggai and his seven-year old daughter Anike are believed to be held in Sydney by an Australian woman they call 'Lisa Hobby'. Yesterday they telephoned a West Papuan woman who has been based in Canberra for twenty years, and asked to speak to their lawyer in Melbourne. However the woman has refused to reveal their telephone number or their whereabouts.
AWPA (Melb) informed ASIO a week ago of the disappearance of the high- profile refugees who are believed to be under the control of Indonesian intelligence agents in Australia. Members believe the disappearance is closely linked to Indonesian operations against the Wainggai family and independence supporters in West Papua, PNG, Vanuatu, and Australia.
AWPA (Melb) has been regularly updating Victoria Police and Australian Federal Police. "While our security agencies are probably working hard, we have put up a thousand posters in Sydney, and have opened a facebook group, so that people can report any sitings of Yunus and Anike" said Louise Byrne from the Australia West Papua Association.
Hannah Gobel and Yubel Kareni, two asylum-seekers who returned to Indonesia recently, have been paraded before television cameras across Indonesia. They have been used for propaganda purposes through the time of the Bali executions, saying they were treated very badly in Australia, and are believed to be under guard in West Papua. West Papuans were involuntarily and unwillingly incorporated into the Indonesian Republic in 1962 as part of an agreement between Holland and Indonesia under the auspices of the United Nations.
Anike Wainggai is an engaging intelligent little girl who famously 'high-fived' with Family First Senator Steve Fielding in 2006, bringing about the withdrawal of the Migration Amendment legislation and Prime Minister Howard's first defeat in parliament. She has a wide friendship group, and recently topped her class for 'computer studies'. She and her father have said they don't want to go back to Indonesia. Anike's mother who had to escape Indonesian intelligence after her husband and daughter landed in Australia, has been hoping for reunification with her family.
Further inquiries/photos: Louise Byrne (61 03) 9510 2193; 04329 24 212
****
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*AT RISK OF IMMINENT FORCIBLE REMOVAL FROM AUSTRALIA*
*__*
**
**
* *
The West Papuan community and their supporters in Australia are holding
grave fears for the safety of *Yunus* and *Anike Wainggai.* We have
reasonable suspicion that their disappearance is linked to an ongoing
and high-level Indonesian intelligence operation involving the
disappearance of other refugees. Anike and Yunus, went missing from
their public housing flat in Collingwood Melbourne on Saturday 15
November 2008.
Yunus, 39, and Anike, 7, are two of the 43 asylum seekers who landed at
Mappoon on the Cape York Peninsula on 18 January 2006. After the media
interest their arrival in Australia generated, the Indonesian government
withdrew its ambassador, and a major diplomatic and military rift grew
between Australia and Indonesia. Ongoing Indonesian intelligence
operations within Australia against the 43 asylum seekers and their key
supporters have been documented extensively. They are currently believed
to be held in Sydney.
*IF you see either of these people, please inform them of the immediate
need to, or assist them to, contact their community in Melbourne; and
immediately notify your nearest police officer, and also call 0409 268
978. If you see them at an airport or port, please immediately contact
your security supervisor or AFP. If they are with Indonesian nationals
please immediately call 000 and 0409 268 978.*
*THIS MATTER IS URGENT AND LIFE THREATENING
*
*
A FACEBOOK GROUP HAS BEEN STARTED AT
http://apps.facebook.com/
*
urgent assistance is also required in Sydney : **If you are in in
Sydney, you can help practically. We need people to be on the ground, to
help look, to help with fuel, cash, cars, radios, etc.
Please contact ONLY 0409 268 978 if you can help (and please forward
this widely).*
Two West Papuans of the 43 asylum-seeking group have been missing from Melbourne since last Saturday, and cannot be contacted.
Yunus Wainggai and his seven-year old daughter Anike are believed to be held in Sydney by an Australian woman they call 'Lisa Hobby'. Yesterday they telephoned a West Papuan woman who has been based in Canberra for twenty years, and asked to speak to their lawyer in Melbourne. However the woman has refused to reveal their telephone number or their whereabouts.
AWPA (Melb) informed ASIO a week ago of the disappearance of the high- profile refugees who are believed to be under the control of Indonesian intelligence agents in Australia. Members believe the disappearance is closely linked to Indonesian operations against the Wainggai family and independence supporters in West Papua, PNG, Vanuatu, and Australia.
AWPA (Melb) has been regularly updating Victoria Police and Australian Federal Police. "While our security agencies are probably working hard, we have put up a thousand posters in Sydney, and have opened a facebook group, so that people can report any sitings of Yunus and Anike" said Louise Byrne from the Australia West Papua Association.
Hannah Gobel and Yubel Kareni, two asylum-seekers who returned to Indonesia recently, have been paraded before television cameras across Indonesia. They have been used for propaganda purposes through the time of the Bali executions, saying they were treated very badly in Australia, and are believed to be under guard in West Papua. West Papuans were involuntarily and unwillingly incorporated into the Indonesian Republic in 1962 as part of an agreement between Holland and Indonesia under the auspices of the United Nations.
Anike Wainggai is an engaging intelligent little girl who famously 'high-fived' with Family First Senator Steve Fielding in 2006, bringing about the withdrawal of the Migration Amendment legislation and Prime Minister Howard's first defeat in parliament. She has a wide friendship group, and recently topped her class for 'computer studies'. She and her father have said they don't want to go back to Indonesia. Anike's mother who had to escape Indonesian intelligence after her husband and daughter landed in Australia, has been hoping for reunification with her family.
Further inquiries/photos: Louise Byrne (61 03) 9510 2193; 04329 24 212
****
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Help Find Missing Papuan Asylum Seekers Anike and Yunus Wainggai
Positions:
- to stop Yunus and Anike Wainggai from being forcibly returned to Indonesia
- to locate Yunus and Anike immediately, and enable them to make contact with their community
- To ensure Indonesian intelligence cease opertations against refugees on Australian soil
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