Republic of the South Moluccas

AN ISOLATED WAR

(The twofold suppression of the Moluccan Right of Independence)

(a) Moluccan Peoples Mission.

On behalf of the Republic of the South Moluccas we express ourselves with an appeal to the conscience of all nations to lend us support to make our opinion heard in the General Assembly of the United Nations and in the Security Council, in order that our conflict with the "neo colonial R.I." further can be discussed on an international level.

As a nation, we (the Moluccans) have fulfilled the "condition sine qua non" of the International Conventions to the Right of Independence (see supplements). We therefore insist, that the Dutch government gives an explanation "why" she still supports a "neo colonial regime" (the R.I.) in committing ethnocide and genocide against us, the Moluccans, and many other nations in Southeast Asia and West Melanesia, the former Dutch colonies.

The struggle of our forefathers to defend our independence has been carried on from 1621 and onwards (1). It has been severely weakened by the Dutch monopoly system and military force. Ultimately the Dutch even passed to a violent policy of deportation (see chapter 5). In 1949 we, together with other Southeast Asian and west Melanesian nations, achieved freedom, which was settled in the Consti­tution of the United States of Indonesia. Retrospectively it is clear that this was a wrong "supposition" because among us a new colonizer had emerged, mani­festing itself as a "State": the Republic of Indonesia (R.I.).

We have based ourselves however on our inalienable right a5 nation, on the Right of Self-determination, as it is recognized in the Atlantic Charter, the textbook of the United Nations. Ultimately on April 25, 1950 in Amboina the unquenchable desire of the people to once and for all reclaim the sovereignty of the Moluccas was realized through the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of the South Moluccas (Republik Maluku Selatan).

In principle the intention of our leaders together with the leaders of the North Moluccas (Sultans of Ternate and Tidore) was to form the Unity Republic of the Moluccas (Republik Maluku Selatan).

(b) Isolated and manipulated.

A declaration of independence, to be "de facto and de jure" independent Erom all constitutionality's of the United States of Indonesia, gras made, even before the United States of Indonesia were liquidated by the Republic of Indonesia, which initially was part of the federation (its official territory was Central Java).

The Kingdom of the Netherlands willfully violated the International Law by arresting in 1952 the official representatives upon their arrival in former New Guinea. Especially the leader of our political mission, Ir. Alvarez Manusama was affected most severely: on September 11, 1953 a prohibition to speak was imposed on him by the Dutch government,. (2).

Several military missions, which were sent, afterwards, did not succeed to ful­fill their instructions. They were subtly boycotted and politically isolated from their oven people in the Netherlands, but most of all, isolated from their government in the Interior of Nusa Ina (Ceram).

Our struggle for recognition and freedom slowly became isolated from the Organization of the United Nations and Security Council. Because of the Dutch policy, which was persistently carried through, the R.I. was enabled to, in a violent manner, grow into the present day unlawful Unitary State: the Republic of Indonesia.

In the year's 1950 1967, the military aggression from the R.I. against the Republic of South Moluccas did not meet with any protest from the United Nations. The devotion of our young freedom fighters abroad in the years 1966 up to 1978 was punished by the Dutch government with unjust penalties and military force, still without any serious attention from the U.N.O. As a consequence of the U.N.O. attitude and the Dutch policy, the R.I. got the opportunity to iso­late and manipulate our cause.

(c) Opinion.

Considering the blond of our people shed through the centuries in our struggle for our self preservation, to break through the isolation and to break the manipulation, and especially to claim recognition and respect of our Right of Self-determination, I, Docianus Sahalessy, was sent abroad on the ground of a decision of the emergency parliament in the Moluccas.

On November 1, 1979 I appeared before the Hoge Raad (one of the highest advi­sory committees of the Dutch government) in The Hague in order to defend my request to be recognized as a political refugee. Then I made up this memorandum in order to open the eyes of the public opinion to the Rights and Struggles of our nation, that is still being unlawfully occupied by what is Galled the R.I. together with it's accomplice the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Before we come to our prime indictment against the neo colonial regime, I would like to note some facts regarding our Inalienable Right as a Nationality.