Indonesian soldiers kill rebel, injure another in Papua


Thousands of residents rally in Deiyai, Papua on Monday to demand the perpetrator of the recent fatal shooting is brought to account. They also want contractor firm PT Putra Dewa Paniai and the police’s Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel to be expelled from the Mee Pago indigenous area. And on Wednesday (Feb 19) Indonesian troops gunned down a member of a separatist group and wounded another one in a gun battle in the country's easternmost province of Papua, the provincial military's spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Eko Daryanto said. - Jakarta Post/ANN

JAKARTA: Indonesian troops gunned down a member of a separatist group and wounded another one in a gun battle in the country's easternmost province of Papua, the provincial military's spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Eko Daryanto said on Wednesday (Feb 19).

The exchange of fire between the soldiers and the separatists who belong to what Indonesia calls "the criminal armed group," occurred in Gulanggama village in Intan Jaya district a day earlier when the troops were carrying out a patrol, the spokesman said.

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