For decades Julian has devoted his life, risked his security, and willingly sacrificed his limited personal resources in his determination to give the people of West Papua a voice in the world despite their seemingly impossible plight.

Julian's deep sense of honour and loyalty has brought him face to face with atrocities and losses of lives in West Papua, where the people fight with bows and arrows against bombs and helicopter gunships. His doctorate exposes the horrendous breaches of international law throughout over 60 years of occupation. With the crucial knowledge he is bringing, lawful, peaceful resolution is in sight.

Now Julian is under serious threat via underhanded tactics by ASIO. It appears that some people want to silence him by jailing him for the rest of his life. To ensure a fair and unbiased court process he urgently needs our support to secure competent legal counsel.

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In Julian's words:

West Papua, on Australia's doorstep, has been under Indonesian military occupation since 1963. Recent estimates put the loss of life since this time at over 2 million due to what legal scholars, human rights organisations, intelligence agencies and the United Nations describe as systematic genocide.

I am a doctoral candidate at the University of Wollongong assisting the Free Papua Movement (OPM) in the West Papuan people's ongoing struggle for independence. I have been supporting the OPM for over 25 years, first assisting Otto Ondawame at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, and now assisting Amatus Douw, the OPM's Diplomatic Spokesperson based in Australia.

My peer-reviewed published papers detail the legal status of West Papua as an abandoned and annexed Non-Self-Governing Territory, the covert breaches of international law perpetrated by the United Nations in denying the Papuan people their rightful independence and the complicity of Western governments in this denial of independence and the ongoing genocide via their provision of military equipment and training to Indonesia's military and police.

In 2022 Amatus and I visited West Papua collecting evidence on human rights abuses, including the aerial bombing of Papuan communities, mass internal displacement, torture and extrajudicial killings for the International Criminal Court.

Shortly after returning, Amatus was approached by Australian government (ASIO/AFP) operatives pretending to be concerned about the human rights conditions in West Papua while orchestrating to entrap Amatus and myself.

This is intentional targeting of the Free Papua Movement/OPM by the Australian government in order to silence the most ardent critics of the Australian government's complicity in the ongoing genocide of the West Papuan people. The Western governments are all in breach of international law - including the Genocide Convention - in order to facilitate the ongoing exploitation of West Papua's magnificant forests and vast oil, gold and other mineral deposits.

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We, Julian's friends, seek your kind support to help Julian meet this challenge. He needs funds to cover transport and other logistics of securing an appropriate legal pathway to justice.

We definitely don't see Julian as a man who should be punished, and our community does not want to lose him from our midst.

We want to see an end to genocide and an end to lawfare - the abuse of judicial system power against good people for political intents. We want an end to illegal wars in our names.

Please donate if you are able, and share this gofundme far and wide.

Thanking you for taking the time to read this and we hope you can help.

Even now, Julian continues to support the people of West Papua in their efforts to achieve their long-deserved independence.

To learn more about the West Papua situation please see:

Julian's on-line presentations:

https://youtu.be/7qFzQdSaFY8?si=hS1yXEh4UwxwtIqs

Julian's formal academic papers:

McKinlay King, J. 2019, ‘A Soul Divided: The UN’s Misconduct over West Papua’ PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 16, no. ½, (online)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julian-Mckinlay-King

McKinlay King, J. with Johnson, A. 2018, ‘West Papua Exposed: An Abandoned Non-Self-Governing or Trust Territory’ Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity, vol. 6, no. 2, (online) https://griffithlawjournal.org/index.php/gjlhd/article/view/1078