The beating of Kundu drums fills the air. At intervals of the energetic strumming of guitars, a wood flute plays a soft melody and the harmony of Melanesian voices begins to rise; young people in traditional clothes signing a song outlawed in their own land. As the crowd begins to erupt into cries of “Papua Freedom, Papua Freedom” the young musicians emotionally sing
“The only thing I desire and am waiting for is nothing else but freedom.”
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