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“Even if I am in heaven, surrounded by beautiful white gods, white angels, white gardens, white rainbows, and white food—white everything—living in eternal happiness, if I hear that Papuans on this planet called Earth have regained their stolen land and sovereignty, I will leave that heaven immediately, without telling the gods who rule that dimension, and return to my home: Papua. Even if I am in hell, surrounded by darkness, fire, pain, suffering, death, and monsters—if I hear that my land and my home's sovereignty has been stolen for good and occupied by foreigners, and I am allowed to return, I will never leave that hell.”

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Book:WE ARE THE LAST VOICE OF THE FIRST PEOPLES & THE FIRST VOICE OF THE LAST PEOPLES: 63 Sacred Sayings from the Edge of Extinction: Remembering 63 Years of Invasion, Betrayal, and Resistance
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