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An illustrated story for adults
Based on actual events in 2012, Vanishing Tribes is a young woman's shocking yet tender and inspiring story about her love for her brothers, her need to protect them, and the quest to free their homeland from a brutal military occupation.
Join Vivi as she struggles to find courage in the midst of political intrigue, espionage and imminent danger. Her personal story is set against the true-to-life backdrop of a fifty-year global conspiracy to hide genocide, Christian persecution and militarized commerce in West Papua, a place arguably as biologically and culturally diverse as the Amazon.
This interactive eBook was created by a collaboration of artists, academics and activists from four continents as a tribute to fifty years of peaceful protest in West Papua. The eBook can be read on three levels. You can:
a) scan the story and browse the paintings like an art gallery
b) read the full story which includes more than sixty paintings and illustrations
c) open the pop-up footnotes and image descriptions to better understand what's happening to these astonishing people who inhabit the world's second largest island.
You can also visit a wiki at vanishingtribes.info to verify the facts behind the fictional story. Links there include videos showing evidence of recent atrocities and the West Papuans' amazing determination to regain their freedom through passive resistance. The wiki also offers bonus dialogue, a forum to express your views, and a variety of action ideas.
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Vanishing Tribes: Unheard Voices from West Papua
2014, Freedom 50 Creative
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“It was a patriotic dance,” she continued, “celebrating the rebirth of our nation and asserting our basic right to freedom. The TNI watched us from their tanks with guns pointed, waiting to see how the dance might end. My spirit was lifted by the crowd – all of them singing our anthem and traditional songs in spite of the flagrant intimidation, and it gave me strength.
“Then I heard Edison Waromi speak, and witnessed President Forkorus Yaboisembet defiantly reading out our nation’s new Declaration of Independence. He’d read almost all of it, when shots rang out and people started to fall."
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