A man was hacked to death and three others injured in two separate attacks by an anti-colonial guerrilla group in West Papua on March 10.
The attacks both took place on March 7 in Seradala a village in Intan Jaya district and Kumbalagupa, a village in Yahukimo district.
A gold miner was killed by rebels armed with machetes and another was injured in the attack in Kumbalagupa.
The other two injured were construction workers.
The West Papua National Liberation Army and Free Papua Movement (TPNPB-OPM) later admitted responsibility for the attacks.
The anti-colonial guerrilla group also claimed responsibility for the killing on March 2 of eight technicians fixing a transceiver station in a remote part of Papua’s Puncak district.
The eight technicians were killed because they entered a restricted zone, according to the guerrilla group.
Note: The workers who were attacked are similar to the private contractor workers who operated during the US-led coalition’s invasion of Iraq – they are not innocent ‘civilians’ – they have been warned numerous times by TPNPB not to enter the conflict zones or their would be consequences. The workers all chose to forgo these warnings and profiteer from working in the conflict zone.
Via Raddle