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The February 2024 Enga Province massacre occurred on 18 February, 2024, where dozens of people were shot and 44 killed in a tribal dispute in Wapenamanda District, Enga Province, the remote highlands region of Papua New Guinea. [1] Casualties numbered at least 49, including both combatants and bystanders. [2]
The 2024 Papua New Guinean unrest occurred on 10 January 2024 in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby, later spreading to Lae and other cities. The unrest began following protests by security officers due to a sudden reduction in their salaries and prime minister James Marape's tax deduction announcement which was later retracted.
Indonesian authorities suspected the Free Papua Movement's militant wing, the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), of responsibility, specifically of Army Tabuni and Egianus Kogoya group. [1] [4] [5] One of the perpetrators of the attack is Yotam Bugiangge, an Indonesian Army (TNI-AD) deserter with the former rank of Private Second ...
Indonesian security forces on Tuesday recovered the body of a New Zealand pilot who was killed in an alleged separatist attack in the restive Papua region, officials said. Glen Malcolm Conning, a ...
Officials have confirmed the identities of an Australian bomber and the remains of two air crew members more than 80 years after they crashed in flames off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Beaufort ...
The unification of Western New Guinea with Papua New Guinea was official Australian government policy for a short period of time in the 1960s, before Indonesia's annexation of the region. [49] Generally, proposals regarding federation with Papua New Guinea are a minority view in the freedom movement.
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Surface Forces/Flickr A group of Papua New Guinean tribesman hunted a foreign couple through the forest to a river, then shot them with arrows and pelted them with rocks, the Associated Press ...