Ancestors Begged Quotes by Yamin Kogoya

“The greatest tragedy is not that Papuans disappear. It is that Papua disappears while Papuans remain.”

— Yamin Kogoya

“An Indonesianised Papuan mind is more dangerous to Papua’s sovereignty than an Indonesian weapon.”

— Yamin Kogoya

“Papuan extinction is a systematised, structured, programmed, manufactured, engineered, monitored, funded, managed, organised, systematic, highly planned, bureaucratised, corporatised, institutionalised, civilisationalised, projected and promoted and…

— Yamin Kogoya

“Papuan ancestors never stood before the world begging for the right to exist. They carved their existence into the mountains, forests, clans, rivers, memories…

— Yamin Kogoya

“Papuan ancestors never begged for survival. They engineered it. They did not ask the world for permission to exist; they organised their lives in…

— Yamin Kogoya