We Made Our Friend An International Fugitive

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcN31jstzm0

Summary

TLDRThe video tells the story of Kirsten, a YouTuber's camerawoman, who found herself falsely labeled as a terrorist by the Indonesian government. It explores the historical background, specifically relating to West Papua, Indonesia, revealing the struggles there, including colonialism and the devastating effects of the Indonesian military's actions against indigenous peoples. The narrative includes humorous yet critical commentary on disinformation campaigns and government cover-ups. The video not only delves into the false media portrayal and government manipulation but also aims to highlight the broader issues of genocide, exploitation, and international complicity in West Papua. Through a series of comedic yet informative efforts, the hosts venture into risky situations, obtaining proof of the atrocities and exposing the severity of the situation, while inviting viewers to learn more about these ongoing issues through their work.

Takeaways

  • 🖌 Kirsten, a YouTuber's camerawoman, was falsely accused of being a terrorist by Indonesia.
  • 🏝 The history of West Papua plays a crucial role in understanding the conflict.
  • 🇮🇩 Indonesian media exaggerated stories about Kirsten to distract from real issues.
  • 💰 Natural resources are a key motivator in West Papua's exploitation.
  • 🕵️‍♂️ The CIA's historic interventions in Indonesia are intriguingly bizarre.
  • 🎯 Kirsten and her team staged a satire photo shoot to mock sensationalized media.
  • 🗞 Disinformation was used to suppress foreign reports on West Papua atrocities.
  • 🔍 The creators aim to expose genocide and exploitation facilitated by global interests.
  • 🇺🇸 US-backed regimes shifted Indonesia's political landscape significantly.
  • 🎥 The video's creators risked safety to highlight Indonesian military actions.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Kirsten, a cameraman from previous videos, leads a typical life but is labeled a terrorist by the Indonesian government, an assertion backed by historical conflicts in West Papua. Overview of Indonesian colonial history and independence.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The CIA's intervention in Indonesia, particularly a bizarre plot involving pornography, contributed to political upheaval. A subsequent regime change favored Western interests, leading to resource exploitation in Papua.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Current Indonesian control over Papua, controversial mining operations, and ongoing conflict with indigenous Papuans. The struggle of Papuans draws superficial comparisons to 'Avatar', highlighting natural resource exploitation and indigenous resistance.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Kirsten's involvement aims to document evidence of atrocities in Papua. Her journey includes avoiding being caught with bomb fragments, depicting the complicated and dangerous landscape for journalists in the region.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Despite dangerous circumstances, Kirsten and her team manage to document their journey. Their work is inadvertently exposed by Indonesian media, painting her as a terrorist, which raises international awareness of the Papuan situation.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:35

    The fallout from Indonesian media painting Kirsten as a terrorist underscores the global neglect of Papuan issues. The video closures encourage viewers to explore the broader story of Papua and support investigative journalism through Patreon.

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Video Q&A

  • Who is Kirsten in the video?

    Kirsten is a camerawoman for previous YouTube videos and was falsely accused by the Indonesian government of being a terrorist.

  • What is the main focus of this video?

    The video focuses on how Kirsten was falsely portrayed as a terrorist and highlights the historical and ongoing conflicts in West Papua, Indonesia.

  • Why did Kirsten travel to West Papua?

    Kirsten traveled to West Papua to investigate and document evidence of atrocities, such as bombings by the Indonesian military.

  • What role did the Indonesian media play in the story?

    Indonesian media exaggerated stories about Kirsten, falsely presenting her as a terrorist, supported by coordinated disinformation campaigns to distract from real issues in West Papua.

  • What historical context is explained in the video?

    The video explains the colonial history of West Papua, Indonesia's struggle for independence, and the transition to a US-backed military dictatorship following the Indonesian Holocaust.

  • What resources were said to be driving conflict in West Papua?

    West Papua's rich natural resources, like copper and gold, are major incentives for exploitation and cause of conflict.

  • How did the CIA allegedly intervene in Indonesia's politics?

    The CIA attempted to undermine Indonesia's then-leader Sukarno with various methods including a fabricated adult film.

  • What was a major reaction of the Indonesian government to foreign attention on West Papua?

    The Indonesian government appeared to coordinate disinformation and media narratives to suppress foreign reports on the atrocities in West Papua.

  • What method was used by the video creators to mock Indonesian media narratives?

    They staged a fake photo shoot implying Kirsten was a terrorist to see if the Indonesian media would circulate the sensationalized photos.

  • What message do the video creators try to convey about the situation in West Papua?

    The creators aim to raise awareness of the genocide and exploitation in West Papua, facilitated largely by international interests.

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    this is Kirsten now you might recognize
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    her as a cameraman from our previous
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    videos but outside of that she's a
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    pretty normal girl with a normal life
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    right she she likes painting she likes
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    her pet bunny uh she likes music just an
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    allround normal
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    girl I'm so nervous but if you ask the
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    Indonesian government they think she's
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    something completely
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    different the shooter was an armed
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    criminal with a bow and arrows one
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    soldier was wounded in the
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    [Music]
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    incident now if you want to understand
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    how we managed to convince an entire
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    country that our our friend Kirsten was
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    a terrorist U you got to know you got to
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    know a bit about the history of
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    Indonesia or like the history of West
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    Papa specifically so um I don't know if
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    I if I give you like three minutes um
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    then you just you go on Google and just
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    type in in Google type in uh West Papa
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    and then just read like all of it and
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    then and um and yeah then I'll tell the
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    rest of the story once you know what's
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    going on
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    [Music]
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    so actually you know what this is boring
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    um I don't know what you got up to but
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    I'll just I I'll do it from the start um
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    and I'll just explain it so Pap is a bit
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    of a mystery for the world right it's
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    the last place on Earth to be reached by
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    the Europeans and it still has hundreds
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    of uncontacted tribes to this day but
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    Pap was 4,000 years stin of self-love
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    and Me time was interrupted in the 17th
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    century when the Dutch arrived and did
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    what Europeans do whenever they meet new
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    people they immediately started
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    measuring their heads and lecturing them
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    about some guy they were obsessed with
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    called Jesus now eventually the pns
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    managed to get the Dutch to chill out by
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    agreeing that you know they also loved
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    Jesus now but things somehow got even
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    worse after that like the Dutch started
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    building these you know really
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    impressive death camps and introduced
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    the population to the operational
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    efficiency and great profit margins of
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    slave labor this colonial project spread
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    across all these islands from Papa to
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    Indonesia known as the Dutch East Indies
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    one of the most profitable colonies
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    Europe ever created but unfortunately
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    after about 300 years of you know
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    brilliant Dutch entrepreneurship the IND
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    iians finally rose up and after 29 years
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    of brutal fighting they kicked the Dutch
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    out and declared independence which you
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    know good on you I mean you got the
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    slavery and the the death camps which is
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    not good but I think the worst thing the
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    Dutch ever did was you know pretend that
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    they had their own language when it's
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    essentially identical to someone just
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    typing in English but you know you
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    occasionally jiggle the keyboard
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    seriously this is how they write the
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    phrase we have a serious problem it's
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    the dumbest language in the world
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    unfortunately the job of kicking out the
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    Dutch was never fully compl completed
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    they liberated 13,000 islands of the
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    Dutch East Indies and United 1,300
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    ethnic groups under the United States of
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    Indonesia but the island of Papa was
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    still under European colonial rule and
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    it was Indonesia's mission to you know
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    finish the job and finally liberate Papa
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    from the Dutch um the only issue is that
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    this is the guy who liberated Indonesia
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    suano and you can probably tell by how
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    hot he is that he was a socialist which
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    means the US had to destroy him now at
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    one point this this is not a joke uh the
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    CIA tried to get rid of Sak with the
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    power of pornography now like I I know
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    it sounds insane but it kind of just
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    keeps getting even dumber like I feel
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    like a psychopath even telling you about
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    it but the CIA hired Bing Crosby the guy
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    who sang White Christmas the most
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    popular singer in the world of the time
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    which firstly it's insane they managed
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    to flip such a giant celebrity and turn
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    him into a full-on CIA asset but maybe
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    it's even more insane that they picked
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    him for this Indonesian spy job in the
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    first place cuz like what relationship
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    does he have to Indonesia it's just I
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    mean it was the ' 50s so I assume that
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    CIA was you know too racist to work with
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    an actual Asian person so they just
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    assumed because his name was Bing he'd
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    have a unique insight into Asian culture
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    anyway Bing produced an adult film
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    called happy days so they they found a
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    Mexican porn star and put a latex mask
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    on him to make him look like the
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    president of Indonesia and they recorded
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    him having sex so this was a plan right
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    the CIA has this film and then they
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    release it claiming that you know the
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    KGB did it and they secretly recorded
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    him you know having sex on his many
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    trips to the Soviet Union and look I
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    mean Indonesia the Muslim country right
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    and if the CIA released this the idea is
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    that they get a two for one deal they
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    turn the people of Indonesia against
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    their leader and they strain the
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    friendly relationship between Indonesia
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    and the Soviets but when sakano found
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    out about the film he was really excited
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    right like he he wanted copies for
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    himself he wanted to broadcast a to of
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    Indonesia cuz he wanted the country to
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    see that you know he [ __ ] Like a Porn
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    Star the scheme didn't work but you know
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    if you think about it for a second it
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    was kind of predictable right a guy who
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    dresses this good is obviously a sex
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    machine you there's no way you could
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    ever embarrass him but luckily for the
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    CIA they moved on to a much less sexy
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    plan they coordinated and funded the
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    Indonesian military to pull off what's
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    been dubbed the Indonesian Holocaust
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    essentially the Army rampaged through
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    the country rounding up torturing and
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    murdering every single communist
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    feminist and trade unionist they
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    liquidated a million unarmed civilians
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    and overnight Indonesia flipped from a
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    socialist country to a right-wing
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    military dictatorship it's one of the
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    most successful CIA operations in world
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    history and and it was a pivotal point
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    that aside of the fate of the Cold War
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    they took the Third third biggest
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    socialist country in the world just
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    killed all the Socialists and swapped
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    Sano with a pro Western
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    Sahar I mean like the the names are the
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    same but they're completely different
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    people right in the same way that Mary
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    Kate is like the rebellious tomboy and
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    Ashley's the girly girl Sano was the the
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    good guy and he's and he's hot and then
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    suado is just this real piece of [ __ ]
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    just like a western backed military
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    dictatorship guy who like ran the
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    country for the next 30 Years now
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    Indonesia never fully recovered from
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    from su's system you know he left power
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    after embezzling $35 billion and for a
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    little while it looked like the people
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    of Indonesia would be able to overcome
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    the military dictatorship but
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    unfortunately now the country is run by
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    another General who is also
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    coincidentally su's son-in-law but
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    anyway back to Papa with Indonesia in
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    the hands of the US suddenly the
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    Americans had no problem with Indonesia
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    taking over Papa and kicking out the
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    Dutch in fact you're currently watching
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    a video of Nixon visiting Papa in 1969
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    to cheer on the Indonesians as they
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    Annex it but what the US actually gain
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    from just doing all these horrific
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    things they got the same thing that the
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    Dutch got from doing it you see papa is
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    incredibly rich in natural resources and
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    su's first order of business was to
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    grant us companies like free Port
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    exclusive rights to take it all so soon
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    enough places like grasberg start
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    popping up which is the biggest copper
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    and gold mine in the world a hole in the
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    earth that's so big that astronauts on
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    the International Space Station look at
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    it and say wow that's a really big hole
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    on the earth and those holes are going
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    places there's so much untapped stuff in
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    Papa but you know inconveniently there's
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    also a bunch of papn trying to live
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    their lives on on top of it and the
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    other problem for Western corporations
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    is that you know no matter how much
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    brutality the Indonesian military
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    dictatorship dishes out the poins have
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    continued resisting for the past 60
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    years and it turns out they're really
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    good at fighting in the
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    jungle now look I I know it's really
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    cheesy and even even dehumanizing to
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    like compare these people's struggle to
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    a Hollywood movie like James Cameron's
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    Avatar but it it's exactly the same as
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    Avatar like it's it is Avatar you got
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    thousands of uncontacted tribes and
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    their first contact with the outside
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    world isn't even a person it's an
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    unmanned drone dropping bombs and
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    poisonous chemicals all for the purpose
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    of wiping them out so they can mine that
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    land's untapped resources all the while
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    the heroes of the story are defending
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    their homes with bows and arrows and
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    this is where Kiron comes into the story
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    they heard about a particular massacre
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    in Papa last year where Indonesian
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    drones drop bombs and chemical weapons
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    on a village in the middle of the Jungle
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    now look I know what you're going to say
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    you're going to say so what right
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    Indonesia's been doing these massacres
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    for the past 60 years what's a big deal
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    right and I would say to that that this
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    massacre is different because um I'm
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    going to explain it using Jeffrey the
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    boy boy
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    bird it's [ __ ] cool bird isn't it um
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    so he's going to explain to he's going
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    to explain to you this [ __ ] hurts
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    it's not that sharp stop complaining I
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    we just don't need we don't need a bird
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    it's just it's stupid G have use no no
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    okay um so the massacre was just
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    different right you see the refuges in
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    this recent Massacre managed to escape
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    they hiked across the mountains for a
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    week to get across the border to Papa
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    New Guinea and they brought with them
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    fragments of the bombs that were dropped
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    on them they wanted to bring proof so
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    International media could finally start
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    reporting on the secret extermination
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    going on deep in the jungle but
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    obviously no one cared right and as if
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    the horrors that these people had to go
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    through wasn't enough these refugees had
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    to make one of the most crushing
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    decisions of their lives they had to do
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    a collab with YouTubers I'm here to
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    figure out who dropped the bomb who made
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    the bomb and why it was used on
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    civilians and I'm kind of screwing up
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    this intro because um because I'm
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    holding a bomb and I'm terrified kson
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    and Christo went and treed Through the
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    Jungle to document this evidence and
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    bring it back to a friend in Australia
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    who could conduct forensic testing now
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    it's hard enough to get to a secret war
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    zone you know completely cut off from
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    the outside world but doing it as a
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    journalist is extra hard cuz Indonesia
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    won't let journalists into West Papa and
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    you know they have a track record of
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    killing the ones that do manage to get
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    in so Kon and Christo decide to get in
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    through the back door through Papa new
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    guini which also doesn't let journalists
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    in but their story is a little bit
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    different Papa new guini is the other
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    half of the island of Papa and unlike
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    the Dutch half papini was first a
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    British colony and then it was handed
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    down to Australia and became an
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    Australian colony which is so cocked
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    like like it's [ __ ] being an Australian
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    cuz we have to deal with the fact that
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    you know a quarter of our flag is
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    someone else flag I just what are the
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    paps meant to do right they they're
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    getting [ __ ] but they didn't have to
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    worry about this for too long because
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    apparently Pap you get declared
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    independence in the' 70s but
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    mysteriously the Australian federal
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    police still operate hundreds of bases
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    across the country and their government
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    is made up of the weirdest looking poorn
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    I've ever seen but that brings me to the
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    main point right Indonesia hasn't
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    invaded you know the other side of the
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    island because they're both on the same
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    team Australia is part of the Dream Team
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    along with the US and Britain that
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    created Indonesia's military
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    dictatorship in the' 60s and we fund and
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    trained the Indonesian military to this
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    day while our companies are digging up
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    the island on both sides of the Border
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    anyway now getting these bomb fragments
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    out of the country wasn't going to be
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    easy because you know Australia controls
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    who comes in and out of Papa Guinea we
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    were arrested in PNG on the way back
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    yeah twice twice did you know that twice
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    what was the what happened we we we got
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    should we you guys are so giggly for
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    [ __ ] being arrested you're like yeah
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    we flew back from the mountains and we
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    landed and we're like it was the best we
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    were like oh we've got the story we're
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    like we didn't
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    die that is nice got the footage too
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    even more importantly but then we come
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    out and these guys they go they go um
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    crysto Kiren stressing cuz we why do
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    they know our names and so we try and
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    like walk out of the airport we're like
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    no we're going
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    to must be the other two white people in
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    West 20 m next door is the airport we
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    need to go to to fly back to msby to get
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    out and so I'm trying to walk there but
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    they shut the gates on us and they're
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    going no no no wait you're so close to
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    to being back home me away what what was
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    I saying I was being a real Karen like
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    I've got a job if I don't get back yeah
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    I'm going to lose my job you came up
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    with a way better excuse than mine like
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    I've got a job to do this guy doesn't
  • 00:11:52
    have a job what was yours oh I had
  • 00:11:54
    malaria malaria so it was like if I get
  • 00:11:57
    sick here you know and notat breed you
  • 00:11:59
    know it's going to be a bigger pain in
  • 00:12:01
    the ass than just letting us go and then
  • 00:12:03
    they go we'll drive you to the airport
  • 00:12:04
    I'm go what do you what do you mean the
  • 00:12:06
    airport is like I'm not exaggerating
  • 00:12:08
    it's 20 M it's there like it's it's not
  • 00:12:11
    a it's a it's about five stabs don't get
  • 00:12:13
    in the car they're like no no just get
  • 00:12:15
    in that police truck load your bags in
  • 00:12:17
    yeah so we had no choice we have to get
  • 00:12:19
    in the van and then and zoom
  • 00:12:22
    straight the airport on the way there
  • 00:12:25
    they um the police car stopped and they
  • 00:12:28
    got out like beat up some bus driver bu
  • 00:12:31
    driver pull bus driver pulled out in
  • 00:12:34
    front some Road R and they just punched
  • 00:12:36
    him in the face what the [ __ ] if I saw
  • 00:12:38
    that I'd be like oh [ __ ] what are they
  • 00:12:39
    going to do to me I mean yeah I was
  • 00:12:41
    [ __ ] myself like then they took us
  • 00:12:43
    to the police station I was just being
  • 00:12:44
    really annoying like I got to get to the
  • 00:12:46
    airport my flights in a second first was
  • 00:12:48
    much smarter and actually giving him a
  • 00:12:50
    good
  • 00:12:53
    reason and then at one point they go can
  • 00:12:55
    we search your bags and I go we're like
  • 00:12:57
    [ __ ] CU we bom fragments saying the
  • 00:13:01
    whole time we were just there for bird
  • 00:13:03
    watching yeah yeah not that any of this
  • 00:13:06
    is like illegal or like you're not
  • 00:13:07
    allowed to do it it's completely fine
  • 00:13:09
    but it's just not a great look when
  • 00:13:11
    you've got a 40 mm grenade
  • 00:13:13
    cartridge so it turns out Kirsten's
  • 00:13:15
    malaria performance was so believable
  • 00:13:17
    they ended up letting them on their
  • 00:13:19
    flight to port morby and then they were
  • 00:13:20
    just one plane ride away from home
  • 00:13:22
    needless to say they felt pretty good at
  • 00:13:24
    this point so we managed to race through
  • 00:13:27
    and we checked our bags in and and
  • 00:13:30
    then like laughing right we done it how
  • 00:13:33
    do we do it and then we they look at our
  • 00:13:35
    passports and they're like okay you have
  • 00:13:37
    to come with us like they took us
  • 00:13:39
    downstairs to the interrogation room 40
  • 00:13:41
    minutes an hour about to leave keep like
  • 00:13:44
    being really annoying like can we have
  • 00:13:45
    our like interrogation now like we've
  • 00:13:48
    got to go and they're going no you're
  • 00:13:50
    not going to make the plan and just like
  • 00:13:52
    like [ __ ] it like we were almost
  • 00:13:55
    there they're like you went to a really
  • 00:13:57
    strange place at the border when when
  • 00:13:59
    you were there did you um see any um OPM
  • 00:14:03
    and Ken goes OPM like OPM the
  • 00:14:07
    drug you're really good at this they're
  • 00:14:10
    like you're the journalist right I
  • 00:14:13
    go what and and and then they pull up
  • 00:14:16
    YouTube and they pull up his previous
  • 00:14:19
    video you made that video what what
  • 00:14:22
    video my God and then they have my last
  • 00:14:25
    video on Papa there oh I got that a Pap
  • 00:14:28
    I thought it would be like k reviews
  • 00:14:30
    all and then I went oh that one yeah
  • 00:14:34
    this time just tourism now it was
  • 00:14:36
    looking like they were going to be
  • 00:14:37
    locked up in papini for a very long time
  • 00:14:39
    but lucky for them the cops couldn't
  • 00:14:41
    find the missile fragments they had in
  • 00:14:43
    their luggage because we'd already
  • 00:14:44
    checked Dage in which was big [ __ ]
  • 00:14:47
    because it's just like a string of like
  • 00:14:49
    coincidences they got you out of there
  • 00:14:51
    it's so ridiculous now the craziest
  • 00:14:53
    thing about all this isn't the fact that
  • 00:14:54
    you know they got arrested twice it's
  • 00:14:56
    it's the fact that arresting them was
  • 00:14:58
    the most any government's ever done
  • 00:15:00
    about these massacres no one has tried
  • 00:15:02
    to help these people no one even
  • 00:15:03
    acknowledges it happened like that the
  • 00:15:04
    most resources the government ever put
  • 00:15:06
    into this was sending police to harass
  • 00:15:07
    anyone who tries to report on it but we
  • 00:15:10
    found out not all the media was silent
  • 00:15:12
    like there was some news about this
  • 00:15:15
    right like about a month after they got
  • 00:15:17
    back to Australia somehow a picture of
  • 00:15:19
    Kon visiting the papin came out on
  • 00:15:21
    Indonesian media and she became an
  • 00:15:23
    overnight
  • 00:15:24
    sensation
  • 00:15:26
    a what's in the hand cirs
  • 00:15:33
    out of nowhere there emerged hundreds of
  • 00:15:34
    news articles and videos claiming that
  • 00:15:36
    Kiren was a terrorist and they all
  • 00:15:38
    revolved around this one photo of
  • 00:15:39
    Kirsten shaking hands with some pns what
  • 00:15:42
    am I giving to her only you
  • 00:15:46
    know the nuclear nuclear codes watch
  • 00:15:50
    out what what was in your hand I think
  • 00:15:53
    we're just shaking
  • 00:15:56
    hands how many of these are there
  • 00:15:59
    there's so many pictures of you
  • 00:16:00
    Indonesian media now having photos of
  • 00:16:03
    yourself all over the news is one thing
  • 00:16:04
    but there was some serious allegations
  • 00:16:06
    here like they claimed that Kirsten
  • 00:16:09
    personally killed like Indonesian
  • 00:16:11
    government officials while she was there
  • 00:16:12
    saying who they say they killed no it
  • 00:16:14
    was I think it was government officials
  • 00:16:16
    there um you don't even know who you
  • 00:16:18
    killed yeah just you know you're that
  • 00:16:21
    deep don't care just the agent a chaos
  • 00:16:24
    member of the armed criminal group
  • 00:16:26
    whoever
  • 00:16:27
    honestly you have haven't seen this
  • 00:16:29
    before have you no how does it feel
  • 00:16:31
    being a
  • 00:16:33
    terrorist feels kind of scary I don't
  • 00:16:35
    know what I'm capable of now there's
  • 00:16:38
    something really odd about these
  • 00:16:39
    articles right they they seem strangely
  • 00:16:42
    coordinated right they came from all
  • 00:16:43
    over the place but they pretty much
  • 00:16:45
    copied each other of the batim although
  • 00:16:46
    While most of them only insinuated that
  • 00:16:48
    the death of Indonesian soldiers was
  • 00:16:49
    linked to kon's arrival some of them
  • 00:16:51
    straight up said that she shot them
  • 00:16:53
    personally but when you look it up you
  • 00:16:55
    realize it's not that coincidental
  • 00:16:58
    Indonesia's milit has been exposed
  • 00:16:59
    running bot Farms spreading
  • 00:17:01
    misinformation about Papa and this is
  • 00:17:02
    nothing new right a lot of countries do
  • 00:17:04
    this but it it's just baffling that such
  • 00:17:06
    a coordinated disinformation campaign
  • 00:17:07
    was directed at Kirsten which got me
  • 00:17:10
    thinking right we're we're in a pretty
  • 00:17:12
    funny situation here right Indonesia and
  • 00:17:14
    their Western backers you know don't
  • 00:17:15
    want anyone talking about what they're
  • 00:17:16
    doing in Papa but at the same time like
  • 00:17:19
    domestically the Indonesian media goes
  • 00:17:21
    crazy like their bot Farms go wild
  • 00:17:22
    whenever a foreigner takes interest in
  • 00:17:24
    it so we thought maybe we could use
  • 00:17:27
    Indonesian sensationalist media against
  • 00:17:29
    them right if we can turn K into like a
  • 00:17:31
    world famous terrorist like Bin Laden or
  • 00:17:34
    or Tony Blair then maybe we can get some
  • 00:17:36
    more International attention on Papa so
  • 00:17:38
    we got to work but this time we created
  • 00:17:40
    a spectacle for the Indonesia media on
  • 00:17:42
    purpose you know while trying really
  • 00:17:44
    hard to not actually get curs in trouble
  • 00:17:46
    for you know actual terrorism because
  • 00:17:48
    that that wouldn't be very nice so we
  • 00:17:50
    like think of something like that
  • 00:17:51
    insinuates being a terrorist but like
  • 00:17:54
    isn't is like obviously completely
  • 00:17:56
    benign so if we like go to like pain
  • 00:17:59
    and get a photo of you there and see if
  • 00:18:00
    it'll catch laser tag yeah would they
  • 00:18:04
    think they know what like Hightech
  • 00:18:05
    military equipment is though we can't
  • 00:18:07
    like have you a laser tag and like
  • 00:18:08
    concentrated energy weapons or something
  • 00:18:10
    well an empty hand was good enough for
  • 00:18:13
    story true like this you should be
  • 00:18:15
    shaking with two hands two
  • 00:18:17
    hands if the handshake was enough maybe
  • 00:18:20
    we could just be doing
  • 00:18:21
    nothing be playing
  • 00:18:24
    chairs we could do laughing like
  • 00:18:26
    Renaissance fair
  • 00:18:30
    like medieval weapons archery would work
  • 00:18:32
    cuz they they don't like they're not
  • 00:18:35
    they're not fans of um you know the bows
  • 00:18:37
    and arrows that the tpn use I mean
  • 00:18:39
    archery would be cool and then what we
  • 00:18:41
    do we' like put it out there being like
  • 00:18:44
    yeah are you training them surely they
  • 00:18:46
    know how to do Ary like what's the
  • 00:18:48
    insation are you
  • 00:18:50
    like
  • 00:18:52
    providing hour they can make completely
  • 00:18:55
    F they're training me I don't know
  • 00:18:57
    that's what that's what quite like um
  • 00:19:00
    that's also what's really funny about it
  • 00:19:01
    is like oh yeah they they need our
  • 00:19:04
    help I'm going to teach them a thing or
  • 00:19:06
    two from being our extensive experience
  • 00:19:09
    their early 20s West to teach po how to
  • 00:19:13
    do how to do archery going to teach them
  • 00:19:15
    how to um go to
  • 00:19:17
    gigs what else do a coffee yeah we could
  • 00:19:22
    just go do archery I want to do archery
  • 00:19:24
    anyway we just we just do that
  • 00:19:27
    atery excuse too yeah let's go and if
  • 00:19:30
    the video doesn't work out we did after
  • 00:19:33
    how are you
  • 00:19:34
    feeling um I'm feeling very
  • 00:19:38
    uncoordinated what's this thing for I
  • 00:19:41
    don't know he just started handing me
  • 00:19:43
    things coffee in my head I feel like
  • 00:19:46
    it's meant to match a part of our body
  • 00:19:48
    but I can't work out what that is
  • 00:19:49
    there's a hole really it looks like a
  • 00:19:52
    penis protector like for one slightly
  • 00:19:54
    bigger ball than the other doing a scary
  • 00:19:56
    terrorist photo shoot of Cur was than we
  • 00:19:59
    thought you know the bow wasn't really
  • 00:20:04
    cooperating you
  • 00:20:08
    think
  • 00:20:10
    no it's not looking
  • 00:20:13
    good um cut
  • 00:20:17
    that that's all right that's all right
  • 00:20:20
    the target targets can move in the in a
  • 00:20:22
    real fight you know Target is subjective
  • 00:20:24
    yeah now I knew that making curs look
  • 00:20:26
    scary was going to be hard but got even
  • 00:20:28
    more complicated when the instructor
  • 00:20:29
    revoked her bow and arrow privileges let
  • 00:20:32
    go
  • 00:20:33
    that so what I want you to do put the
  • 00:20:35
    knot in there when you grab this put it
  • 00:20:38
    here you can't be trusted with a bow
  • 00:20:40
    they put you they put you on the rubber
  • 00:20:45
    band no no no
  • 00:20:48
    no you me my God I feel like I couldn't
  • 00:20:52
    be worth it hey careful with that rubber
  • 00:20:54
    band don't pointed at
  • 00:20:57
    me I out of nowhere like a Taliban
  • 00:21:00
    Sleeper Cell she started doing
  • 00:21:03
    this holy [ __ ] what is going on oh my
  • 00:21:07
    God you are actually cracked at aring
  • 00:21:10
    she is the terrorist that's why they
  • 00:21:12
    that's why they this is all real so she
  • 00:21:15
    ended up getting dressed up and you know
  • 00:21:16
    we did our militant photo shoot and I
  • 00:21:19
    don't know I guess you could say it was
  • 00:21:20
    a successful day in the sense that you
  • 00:21:22
    know we got some tax deductible archery
  • 00:21:24
    lessons and we took a couple of photos
  • 00:21:26
    but in terms of this actual video
  • 00:21:29
    I just kind of felt like we're wasting
  • 00:21:30
    our time like there's in no world with
  • 00:21:31
    the Indonesian government you know see
  • 00:21:33
    these photos and be like oh yeah Kirsten
  • 00:21:35
    is an international terrorist or like a
  • 00:21:37
    mercenary but we've come this far the
  • 00:21:40
    least I could do is make sure the photos
  • 00:21:41
    get into the hands of the Indonesian
  • 00:21:43
    government so I looked it up and it
  • 00:21:45
    turns out they live here okay so we got
  • 00:21:47
    the dossier here I've compiled an
  • 00:21:50
    extensive list of sources about um Kiren
  • 00:21:53
    being a super soldier
  • 00:21:55
    mercenary um they're all kind of the
  • 00:21:58
    same fol
  • 00:21:59
    but um it's a lot of interesting news
  • 00:22:02
    here and then you got the the Glamour
  • 00:22:04
    Shots the actual like real deal badass
  • 00:22:07
    terrorist photo shoot what do you reckon
  • 00:22:10
    this looks pretty serious right not me
  • 00:22:14
    yeah I'm terrified yeah scared of her I
  • 00:22:17
    think that aim I mean those arrows are
  • 00:22:20
    going kilometers at a time I feel like I
  • 00:22:24
    probably should have patted it with more
  • 00:22:25
    paper it's like this doesn't
  • 00:22:29
    this doesn't scream like top secret
  • 00:22:31
    documents there's like four pages of
  • 00:22:34
    just like screenshots from the news what
  • 00:22:37
    secret training camp uncovered oh yeah
  • 00:22:40
    should I put on my sunnes does that look
  • 00:22:41
    more like undercover like you a secret
  • 00:22:44
    dossier kind of guy you look like or is
  • 00:22:47
    this more like reliable I mean I'm just
  • 00:22:50
    really having trouble picturing the type
  • 00:22:52
    of person that's snitching about a
  • 00:22:54
    training camp in
  • 00:22:55
    marra I think the stud is there yeah
  • 00:22:58
    theud
  • 00:22:59
    yeah this is sick [ __ ] I feel cool hi
  • 00:23:03
    there how are you um I've got some um
  • 00:23:06
    documents that I think the Indonesian
  • 00:23:07
    government might be interested in it's
  • 00:23:09
    about these mercenaries that snuck into
  • 00:23:12
    West Papa she's actually like a bow and
  • 00:23:15
    arrow expert so they they train um
  • 00:23:18
    really close to here it's down at lean
  • 00:23:20
    Park they've been training archery to go
  • 00:23:24
    infiltrate West Papa you can talk to
  • 00:23:28
    in there number four left
  • 00:23:31
    okay oh perfect thanks so much oh thank
  • 00:23:35
    you now look we're trying to get our
  • 00:23:38
    friend classified as a terrorist which
  • 00:23:40
    is you know dodgy enough so the last
  • 00:23:41
    thing we want to do is get done for the
  • 00:23:43
    crime of you know secretly filming
  • 00:23:44
    inside a foreign consulate so there's no
  • 00:23:47
    footage from inside the building but it
  • 00:23:48
    was awful in there I mean like the place
  • 00:23:51
    was nice it was lovely and people were
  • 00:23:52
    really nice to me but I just felt like a
  • 00:23:54
    psycho right like I just seem like a
  • 00:23:56
    really unwell person who just like
  • 00:23:58
    strolled in in his pajamas and is just
  • 00:24:00
    like ranting about this conspiracy
  • 00:24:01
    theory and they they're kind of confused
  • 00:24:03
    like they didn't know what to do with me
  • 00:24:04
    so they just kind of what they ended up
  • 00:24:05
    doing was they just kept escalating it
  • 00:24:08
    right they'd be like oh I don't know
  • 00:24:09
    what to do he here's my manager and it's
  • 00:24:11
    like oh here's my manager's manager and
  • 00:24:12
    it just kept going up until it reach
  • 00:24:14
    like the Consular staff like the actual
  • 00:24:16
    political people and then like the only
  • 00:24:18
    way they got me to shut up was by you
  • 00:24:20
    know agreeing with me and being like
  • 00:24:22
    okay we'll we'll get we promise we'll
  • 00:24:25
    we'll the president will see these
  • 00:24:26
    documents and then I
  • 00:24:29
    well it's out of my hands now now it's
  • 00:24:33
    up to the
  • 00:24:34
    president now it seemed pretty obvious
  • 00:24:37
    by my reception at the consulate that
  • 00:24:38
    everyone thought I was insane like
  • 00:24:40
    there's there's no way that anyone would
  • 00:24:42
    be looking at these photos and be like
  • 00:24:44
    Oh yeah this is serious this is a
  • 00:24:45
    terrorist I'm going to take this
  • 00:24:48
    seriously what do they say mystery of
  • 00:24:51
    the Australian Caucasian girl girl who
  • 00:24:53
    dared to enter the papa for PN Forest
  • 00:24:56
    [Laughter]
  • 00:24:59
    brother's Grim fairy tale that's why you
  • 00:25:02
    never enter the popwood forest why you
  • 00:25:05
    have to be a good girl and stay with
  • 00:25:12
    Grandma
  • 00:25:14
    see oh my God how do they not like real
  • 00:25:19
    a joke like is the stupidest SP the news
  • 00:25:23
    stories just kept coming and coming that
  • 00:25:25
    they were making them faster than we
  • 00:25:26
    could watch them
  • 00:25:30
    how does that I don't understand how
  • 00:25:33
    those two pictures follow each other it
  • 00:25:35
    goes from these guys with [ __ ]
  • 00:25:37
    automatic weapons there's a picture of
  • 00:25:39
    you crouching in a tree look at how many
  • 00:25:41
    look we got that one the behind the tree
  • 00:25:45
    the artistic angle everything we got
  • 00:25:47
    every photo and they've like flipped
  • 00:25:49
    them around everyone has like a
  • 00:25:51
    different preference for how they want
  • 00:25:53
    you shooting your bow and arrow just
  • 00:25:55
    like these two just just flip them yep
  • 00:25:57
    we now we have two articles now I
  • 00:25:59
    thought the previous articles used some
  • 00:26:00
    pretty colorful language but these new
  • 00:26:02
    articles blew them out of the water OPM
  • 00:26:04
    inserts two Caucasians into kkb Pap
  • 00:26:07
    headquarters we were inserted inserted
  • 00:26:11
    Caucasians which we kind of have done
  • 00:26:14
    two Australian foreigners infiltrate
  • 00:26:16
    Papo spread the charm of opm's Promise
  • 00:26:18
    of Independence spread the charm you
  • 00:26:21
    guys feel like you're CH you Charmed
  • 00:26:22
    your way into West Papa that's right we
  • 00:26:24
    had a little half time good day sir but
  • 00:26:28
    amidst all the charm and the inserted
  • 00:26:30
    Caucasians there were some scarier
  • 00:26:32
    allegations trying to link KS to even
  • 00:26:33
    more murders some of them as recent as 2
  • 00:26:35
    weeks ago wait second November that was
  • 00:26:38
    just then yeah you
  • 00:26:41
    guys what did you do that was probably
  • 00:26:44
    like the day we were doing archery I
  • 00:26:46
    still think it was you
  • 00:26:48
    guys I don't know where you were on
  • 00:26:49
    November 2nd two weeks ago oh my God
  • 00:26:53
    he's fing everywhere oh
  • 00:26:56
    wa he's really terrified by these this
  • 00:26:59
    Indonesian media he didn't realize he
  • 00:27:01
    was owned by a terrorists [ __ ]
  • 00:27:04
    himself now these weren't just random
  • 00:27:06
    bot Farms calling curs a terrorist this
  • 00:27:08
    story spread and it was being reported
  • 00:27:10
    by real news networks Tribune jeang like
  • 00:27:13
    it's a big paper um 3 million
  • 00:27:16
    subscribers wait what this is so much
  • 00:27:19
    bigger than putting it on boy boy yeah
  • 00:27:21
    that being said there were definitely
  • 00:27:23
    some military bot Farms this one's by
  • 00:27:25
    hippo Academy what the [ __ ]
  • 00:27:29
    legitimate news Outlet Indonesia not
  • 00:27:31
    sending their best one like three
  • 00:27:33
    followers what is this it's just like an
  • 00:27:36
    AI generator paid for subscribers yeah
  • 00:27:38
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    unated just what is going on
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    who watches
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    this let's see how many views do 21,000
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    views That's Impossible fake that is
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    impossible no no no no no no no they got
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    you this is real if there are
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    Australians who interfere in poo Affairs
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    them oh
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    God on my phone Kirsten's bunny was
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    acting out exactly what we were all
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    thinking right there's no point reading
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    another thousand identical articles
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    about Kon being a terrorist it's absurd
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    that a photo this stupid was enough to
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    trigger such a massive reaction from
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    Indonesia's media and you know military
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    bot Farms so they inadvertently made a
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    massive deal out of something they you
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    they don't want anyone talking about
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    right like the fact is the world isn't
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    just ignoring what's happening right the
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    world is facilitating and profiteering
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    off of you know the extermination of
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    some of planet Earth's last uncontacted
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    tribes right and and these are just
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    subsistence Farmers like these are
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    people who are just trying to defend
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    their vill from unmanned drones and
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    chemical weapons sent by us now I don't
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    know about you guys but I honestly
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    wouldn't have known anything about this
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    if it wasn't for Kiron and Christo and
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    their bravery they traveled to a secret
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    war zone put their lives at risk and
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    physical proof of Indonesian bombing in
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    yourself right click the link in the
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    description and see the full story about
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    Indonesia's war crimes and you know it's
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    not just that right they're some of the
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    they're the only journalists in the
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    world to have actually like followed the
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    secretive OPM like resistance movement
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    as they March through the jungle like
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Tags
  • Kirsten
  • West Papua
  • Indonesia
  • Terrorism Accusation
  • Colonial History
  • Media Disinformation
  • CIA
  • Natural Resources
  • Genocide
  • International Complicity