1) Papua Police Officer Killed in Home Invasion
2) One dead in Papua police attack
3) Time to take a stand on West Papua

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1) Papua Police Officer Killed in Home Invasion

By Banjir Ambarita on 3:46 pm April 27, 2013.
Category Law & Order, News
Tags: OPM Free Papua Movement, Papua, Papua police attack,Papua violence

A police officer was fatally stabbed in an early morning home invasion in Yapen Serui Island, Papua, police said on Saturday.

Brig. Jerfi Sesa, of the Yapen Police, was stabbed in the chest by a group of assailants with alleged ties to the militant Ruddy Orarey separatist group, Papua Police spokesman Sr. Comr. I Gede Sumerta Jaya said.

Dozens of men stormed the officers home at 4:20 a.m. local time. The group assaulted Jerfi’s in-laws and slapped his wife before killing the police officer.

They then used a gun stolen from his house to shoot at the home of another police officer before fleeing into the forest.

Yapen police have arrested one man allegedly behind the attacks. Yahya Bonai, 20, is currently being questioned by police.

Jerfi’s remains were sent to a hospital in Serui.

The Ruddy Orarey group has been implicated in several attacks in the region, including a March 13, 2013 attack targeting police. The organization allegedly has ties with the armed Free Papua Movement (OPM).

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2) One dead in Papua police attack

Nethy Dharma Somba, The Jakarta Post, Jayapura | Archipelago | Sat, April 27 2013, 6:47 PM

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One officer was killed and two of his relatives injured when their official housing in Yapen, Papua, was attacked at 1:30 a.m., local time, on Saturday.

Chief Brig. Jefri Sesa died from a stab wound to the stomach in the attack, which occurred when he was asleep at his residence in the Angkaisera police station housing complex.

“Around 10 perpetrators broke into the victim’s house, hitting him, his wife and a relative,” Papua Police spokesman Sr. Comr. I Gede Sumerta Jaya said on Saturday.

Sumerta said that Jefri resisted before he was stabbed and that the assailants made off with his police-issued Pindad SS1-V5 assault rifle.

The group then left and started shooting into the house of another police officer, Brig. Lamek Matui, before fleeing.

Officers later arrested YB, 20, for the attack, which Sumerta said was perpetrated by a group that has extorted several companies in Serui, Yapen Island.

Sumerta said the similar group attacked a police officer in Angkaisera on March 13. (nai/ebf

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3) Time to take a stand on West Papua

FRIDAY, 05 APRIL 2013 04:19

A PAPUA New Guinea Government minister, speaking as a private citizen, has said it is time PNG made a bold stand for the independence struggle of the mostly Melanesian indigenous of the Indonesian province of West Papua, PACNEWS reports.

Health minister Michael Malabag posted on social media site, Sharp Talk, Monday that “sooner or later PNG has to ... bring it before the United Nations Assembly”. 

“Enough is enough,” Malabag wrote, stating that he was making his comments in a private capacity.

Malabag said: “The West Papua issue bugs me all the time.  

“PNG has a number of advocates including Governor (Powes) Parkop. 

“Indonesia is the biggest Muslim nation in the world and I can understand PNG diplomacy where it matters most but does it have to be like this all the time. 

“Indonesia has encroached our homeland both in Western and West Sepik and that is a reality. 

“I am a government minister but I have my own views on this issue but sooner or later, PNG has to make a bold stand and bring it before the United Nations Assembly ... enough is enough.” 

The official PNG government position on the West Papua freedom struggle is that it is an internal issue of Indonesia. 

The struggle, however, has impacted PNG enormously in that periodically there has been rushes of refugees across the unmanned border into PNG. 

The issues has again come to light last week with Governor Parkop speaking openly in support of the movement. 

Also last week, Fiji prime minister Vorege Bainimarama received representatives of the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation in Suva in their quest for membership to the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

Bainimarama heads the group as its chair. 

The West Papua delegation was led by long time campaigner and vice chairman of the grouping, Dr Otto Ondowame, general secretary Rex Rumakiek and former prime minister of Vanuatu, Barrack Sope.

- PACNEWS