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*AT RISK OF IMMINENT FORCIBLE REMOVAL FROM AUSTRALIA*
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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
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A FACEBOOK GROUP HAS BEEN STARTED AT
http://apps.facebook.com/
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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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