Wrong. Netherlands New Guinea held national elections in Jan/1961 and installed a 28 member New Guinea Council in April/1961; after hearing in October that the United States was forcing the Netherlands to trade their nation to Indonesia the Council held an emergency session and elected a National Council who selected the national anthem and designed the "Morning Star flag" and national emblem including motto "One People, One Soul".
The Dutch accepted the new flag and symbols and these were raised on 1st December 1961 next to the Dutch Tri-colour. The Americans forced the Netherlands & paid the United Nations to sign the "New York Agreement" in August 1962; after General Suharto came to power he sold West Papua's mining rights to Freeport McMoRan in 1967; and in 1969 the military staged a thing called the 'Act of Free Choice' to try and claim the mine license was legal.
Today West Papua is a colony under Indonesian rule and according to the Yale University Law School suffering genocide.
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Wrong. Netherlands New Guinea held national elections in Jan/1961 and installed a 28 member New Guinea Council in April/1961; after hearing in October that the United States was forcing the Netherlands to trade their nation to Indonesia the Council held an emergency session and elected a National Council who selected the national anthem and designed the "Morning Star flag" and national emblem including motto "One People, One Soul".
The Dutch accepted the new flag and symbols and these were raised on 1st December 1961 next to the Dutch Tri-colour. The Americans forced the Netherlands & paid the United Nations to sign the "New York Agreement" in August 1962; after General Suharto came to power he sold West Papua's mining rights to Freeport McMoRan in 1967; and in 1969 the military staged a thing called the 'Act of Free Choice' to try and claim the mine license was legal.
Today West Papua is a colony under Indonesian rule and according to the Yale University Law School suffering genocide.
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