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Security personnel continue to persuade Papuan insurgents: police 5 hours ago
Papua Police Chief Inps.Gen. Mathius Fakhiri. ANTARA/Evarukdijati Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA) - Papua Police Chief Insp.Gen.Mathius Fakhiri said security personnel continue to persuade members of armed Papuan separatist groups to be willing to reunite with their families, and declare allegiance to Indonesia.
The efforts are mainly carried out by the Indonesian Defence Forces (TNI s) village supervisory non-commissioned officers (Babinsa) and National Police s security and public order officers (Bhabinkamtibmas).
In carrying out the persuasive approaches, the Babinsa and Bhabinkamtibmas work closely with regional administrations because the separatists are local residents, Fakhiri said in a statement that ANTARA quoted here Sunday.
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West Papua Liberation Army fighters.
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The latest reported deadly violence in Papua occured in Seradala district of Yahukimo regency last Thursday.
Police have blamed the West Papua Liberation Army whose pro-independence guerilla fighters are labelled as terrorists by Jakarta.
A police spokesman told
RNZ Pacific that the four victims were civillian construction workers.
He said police and military forces (Polri and TNI) were in joint pursuit for the suspected killers.
It s the latest violent attack by the Liberation Army in its ongoing campaign against the Indonesian state in Papua s highlands region.
The Liberation Army s spokesman Sebby Sambom has warned civillians that their safety cannot be guaranteed in areas which it has declared as war zones.
Bingki village head survives Papuan terrorists shooting: police 4 hours ago
Bingki Village Head Obaja Nang was evacuated to Jayapura, the capital of Papua Province, to receive medical treatment for a gunshot wound on his thigh on Saturday (June 26, 2021). ANTARA/HO-Papua Police s Public Relations Division Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA) - Bingki Village Head Obaja Nang survived a fatal shooting that several armed Papuan terrorists carried out during their attack on the village on Thursday, according to a Papua police spokesperson.
In a previous report, Nang had reportedly become one of the five slain civilians, Papua Police Spokesperson Senior Commissioner Ahmad Kamal said in a statement that ANTARA quoted here Sunday.