We Have Come To Testify, by Various Artists

We Have Come To Testify

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PHYSICAL BOOKS TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT - NEW STOCK TO ARRIVE SOON. DIGITAL ALBUM + PDF BOOKLET STILL AVAILABLE.

While purchase of this book is free of cost (excluding postage), donations are welcome. All donations received will be forwarded to Pasifika, a West Papua social justice organisation.

‘We Have Come To Testify – There Is Much We Want The World To Know’ is an incredible collection of stories and music centred around 1998 Byak Massacre in West Papua.

Dulwich Centre Foundation, Pasifika, Wantok Musik, Further Arts, Make West Papua Safe and Elsham have come together to produce this stunning resource - a beautifully illustrated book and CD with the recordings of survivor’s testimony and music, telling of the human rights atrocities that occurred during the massacre, and of which are still being perpetrated by the Indonesian Government to this day across West Papuan territory.

The CD enclosed in this book features real passages from the 2013 Citizens Tribunal. The events as told by the survivors echo the stories coming out of West Papua over recent uprisings in the towns and villages. The testimonies are spoken/written by Mama Tineke, Yudha Korwa, Ronny Kareni, Sixta Mambour, and Marcel Meltherorong with music produced by David Bridie and performed by Radical Son, the late Ferry Marisan, and Tio Bang.

This research was partially supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme (project LP150100973). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council.

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1.	Prelude 02:25	info	buy track
2.	Underneath The Water Tower 04:54	info	buy track
3.	These Are Some Of The Injustices 02:58	info	buy track
4.	Morning Star Bai Kam 03:56	info	buy track
5.	Rewui Infun (Pride In Showing Who We Are) 03:49	info	buy track
6.	Mura Muma 03:35	info	buy track
7.	And For Women, It Has Been Worse 01:12	info	buy track
8.	Black Butterfly 03:07	info	buy track
9.	Yame Wero 04:13	info	buy track
10.	We Will Always Remember Them 02:47	info	buy track
11.	Lament 04:13	info	buy track
12.	Yumi Mas Save Long Byak Stori 04:08	info	buy track
13.	Barbar Mak Meser (Morning Star) 02:19	info	buy track
14.	Story Of Rescue 02:39	info	buy track
15.	Dreams From The Jungle 02:15	info	buy track
16.	Orishun 02:35	info	buy track
17.	We Carry A Big Hope 03:07	info	buy track

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This project encompasses a music/documentary recording and an illustrated book which tells the stories from the survivors and witnesses of the 1998 Byak Massacre in West Papua.

In July 1998, when unarmed West Papuans protested for the independence of their nations, they were tortured and killed by Indonesian security forces. Many more were detained and continued to be tortured in custody after the event.

The perpetrators of this violence were never held to account and in 2013 a Citizens Tribunal was held to hear the stories and testimonies from the survivors and witnesses of this horrific event.

Real passages from these testimonies are combined with songs produced by David Bridie and performed by artists from across West Papua and their Pacific neighbours, including Radical Son (Kamilaroi/Tonga), Tio Bang (Vanuatu), Ronny Kareni (West Papua), Sixta Mambour (West Papua), Ferry Marisan (West Papua), Marcel Meltherorong (New Caledonia/Vanuatu), Eyuser Stringband and Mama Tineke (West Papua).

The project aims to give voice to these stories and share the events and plight of the West Papuan people with a wider audience.

With the recent and premature passing of Ferry Marisan, a West Papuan civil rights activist and musician (who contributed heavily to this project), and investigator into the human rights abuses in his homeland of Byak, we embrace this release as a legacy to his life dedicated to a free West Papua.

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released September 23, 2019

CD Credits

TESTIMONIES
retold by Mama Tineke (4)
Cyndi Makabory (14)
David Leha (3, 7, 10, 15, 17)
Marcel Melthérorong (2, 6)
Ronny Kareni (12)
Sixta Mambour (5)

MAIN SINGERS
David Leha (2),
Tio Bang (4, 8, 11, 17)
Ferry Marisan (5, 9, 13, 16)
Hendrik Baransano (5, 9, 13, 16)
Marcel Melthérorong (6)

MUSICIANS
Ferry Marisan - guitars, tifa (drum);
Tio Bang - guitars, kalimba, tifa, aiberok (bass)
Manuel Kubiari - ukelele
Hendrik Baransano - aiberok, tifa, guitar
Marcel Melthérorong - flutes, mambu, kalimba
David Bridie - piano, keyboards, sounds

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS
Monika Stern - violin (8)
Emmanuel Hakalitz - Drums
Phil Wales - guitar noises
John Phillips - guitar noises;
The Memberambo Stringband of West Papua (14)

ADDITIONAL SINGERS
Paula Makabory, Cyndi Makabory, Ronny Kareni, Amos Wainggai, Erwin Bleskadit, Lucius Itlay, Mama Tineke, Gero Brown, David Bridie, Kelly Kwalik Village singers bilong Amungme people West Papua (11).

PRODUCED by David Bridie
RECORDED and MIXED by Andrew Robinson
RECORDED at Further Arts Port Vila Vanuatu
MIXED at ToRurua Studios Thornbury Melbourne
RELEASED on Wantok Musik. www.wantokmusik.org

SONGWRITERS
Ferry Marisan/Eyuser (5, 9, 13, 16)
Tio Bang (2, 4, 7, 11, 17),
Marcel Meltherorong (2, 3, 6, 7, 10)
David Leha (2)
David Bridie (1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 15).

THE SPOKEN WORD PIECES were written by those Byak people who had come to testify trial (1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17).

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BOOK Credits

Mama Tineke Rukabu, Ferry Marsian, Yudha Korwa, Raymond, Agus, Jeff, George, Irene, Mama Babuan, Gustaf Kawer, Ronny Kareni, Jason Macleod, David Dedborough, Cheryl White, David Newman, Barbara Wingard and Eben Kirksey

Edited by Jason Macleod, Ferry Marisan, Viviane Obed, Ronny Kareni and Tom Dick
Foreward by Cardinal John Ribat MSC
Illustrations by Michael Kumnick

PHOTOS
Ni-Van Photography
David Bridie
Ferry Marisan
Amy Chapman
Jason MacLeod
John Walton

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