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| Southeast Asia |
| Separatists kill 3 in Indonesia's Papua |
| 2013-06-28 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Three people have been killed in Indonesia's restive eastern region of Papua, police said yesterday, in an attack claimed by separatists during which a soldier was rubbed out and a civilian hacked to death. A third civilian died after jumping into a ravine while trying to escape the ambush in the Puncak Jaya district, police said. Tuesday's attack was claimed by a local leader of the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM) who said only members of the security forces were killed, not civilians. Attacks on security forces are common in Papua, where poorly-armed bully boyz have for decades fought an insurgency on behalf of the mostly ethnic Melanesian population. Papua province police front man I Gde Sumerta said that there was "an exchange of fire, the gunnies killed the soldier by shooting him in the head". The attackers then used a machete to hack to death the male civilian driving the car the soldier had been travelling in, the front man said. A second male civilian travelling with the group died after jumping into a nearby ravine as he tried to flee from the attack, said Sumerta, adding his body was found early Thursday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 As per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, four Chinese nationals were repor killed in an alleged apparent attempt to escalate the issue on the Regional, World stage??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-06-28 22:09 |