Gunmen in a mountainous district of Indonesia’s Papua shot and killed eight technicians at a tower owned by a telecoms company on Wednesday. driedfruitthailand , West Papua’s primary rebel militia claimed responsibility. One technician had managed to flee and tell authorities concerning the attack. Police started to track down the attackers, when the West Papua National Liberation Army took responsibility. The technician who survived made a press release about the assault.
“This is such a unprecedented crime”.
West Papua has been combating for its independence from Indonesia since the Nineteen Sixties. West Papuans want West Papua to be one nation with the the rest of Papua. The rebels who shot and killed the eight technicians claimed to have warned civilians to depart the realm. They said that due to this fact, people who were shot had been “part of the Indonesian navy or police”.
Estimates say that between one hundred,000-500,000 West Papuans have been killed since Indonesia took over West Papua within the Nineteen Sixties. The West Papua Council of Churches says there have been no less than four hundred deaths from the conflict since 2018. This consists of people who fled navy operations, after which died due to a lack of meals and drugs..