PAPUAN TRAGEDY Quotes

“The greatest tragedy is not that Papuans disappear. It is that Papua disappears while Papuans remain.”
― Yamin Kogoya, PAPUAN TRAGEDY: 300 Warnings From The Edge Of Extinction

“The deepest horror of the Psycho-Cosmocide is not the conquest of land or a people. Conquest has always been a part of history. Nor is it that a people are exploited, displaced, assimilated or governed by external powers. The deepest horror begins when the instruments of conquest become internalised by the conquered themselves. This occurs when foreign realities become familiar, when imposed meanings become self-evident truths, when survival becomes participation and when adaptation becomes reproduction. At that point, the coloniser no longer stands outside the walls. The walls themselves start to rebuild the labyrinth. The gatekeepers become its guardians. The prisoners decorate their cells. The language forgets itself. The library burns its own books. The forest grows the handle of the axe. The tragedy of West Papua and many other colonised Cosmobian peoples is therefore not just a story of external domination. It is also a story of how domination learns to speak with the voice of the dominated, think with their thoughts, dream with their dreams and reproduce itself through their love for their children. Psycho-Cosmocide is victorious when a people continue to walk, work, study, vote, develop, consume and progress while the world that once made them has disappeared. At that point, the labyrinth no longer requires walls because it has been rebuilt inside the colonised minds themselves.”
― Yamin Kogoya, PAPUAN TRAGEDY: 300 Warnings From The Edge Of Extinction

“Papuan existence is being destroyed simultaneously at the physical, political, metaphysical, and cosmological levels — and must be understood as a unified system of extinction.” This is the essence of Psycho‑Cosmocide.”
― Yamin Kogoya, PAPUAN TRAGEDY: 300 Warnings From The Edge Of Extinction

“Papuan extinction is a systematised, structured, programmed, manufactured, engineered, monitored, funded, managed, organised, systematic, highly planned, bureaucratised, corporatised, institutionalised, civilisationalised, projected and promoted and advertised as progress, development, salvation, improvement — and for these to guarantee the outcome – the extinction itself — the system is militarised, securitised and guarded with all the world’s industrial, technological, arms machinery, manpower, technology, scientists, psychologists, priests, developers, anthropologists, sociologists, educators, bankers — all working hand in hand to ensure that one of the most original cosmobian societies, of the original memories of the human species on this planet, is deleted permanently with all their languages, memories, myths, legends, stories, songs, poetry, gods, goddesses, guardians, wisdom, cosmologies and ontology.
Don’t blame God, don’t blame the Devil — it is the human species who are doing this on the wretched earth.”
― Yamin Kogoya, PAPUAN TRAGEDY: 300 Warnings From The Edge Of Extinction

“The real resurrection of Papua begins the moment Papuans stop performing suffering and victimhood—and abandon the psychopathic loop of waiting for an external messiah. It begins when life is no longer performed for the sympathy of a ‘Good Samaritan,’ but is consciously re-engineered for continuity, sovereignty, and state-building.”
― Yamin Kogoya, PAPUAN TRAGEDY: 300 Warnings From The Edge Of Extinction