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Papuans gather in congress, seek independence from Indonesia

PORT NUMBAY, Indonesia - In a ceremony attended by senior Indonesian government officials, some 3,000 Papuans on May 29 kick off a six-day congress in the provincial capital to ''clarify the history of Papua's independence.'' Amid shouts of ''Merdeka (Independence),'' Theys Eluay (R), chairman of the pro-independence Papuan People Council, said the Indonesian government has given the Papuan people ''only lies,'' so ''the people of Papua must wake up to grab again your homeland.''