Britain has the chance to bring a brutal colonial occupation to an end | George Monbiot

The treatment of West Papua has been scandalously neglected by our politicians. Now they have a chance to atone Every colonial enterprise pretends to be inspired by something other than theft. The General Act of the Berlin Conference in 1885, under which the European powers carved Africa into formal colonial possessions, claimed that their purpose was "furthering the moral and material wellbeing of the native populations ... and bringing home to them the blessings of civilisation". Similar rheto...