"We the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB ... Last month another New Zealand pilot, 50-year-old Glen Malcolm Conning, was shot dead by a pro-independence group known as Free Papua ...

Very little about West Papua reaches the outside world because Indonesia tightly controls access for foreign journalists and human rights monitors. New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens was ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than ... Then on Tuesday, leaders of the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement known as ...

A New Zealand pilot held prisoner for more than ... overshadowed by armed insurgents such as the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), Mehrtens' captors. Indonesia has proscribed the ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The New Zealand pilot who’s been held hostage for ... Papua to become a sovereign country. Leaders of the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua ...

JAYAPURA, Indonesia--Gunmen stormed a helicopter and killed its New Zealand pilot shortly after it landed ... was shot to death by gunmen allegedly with the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed ...

The leader of the rebel group who took New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens hostage has denied a bribe was involved in his release, offering an explanation on the motive behind the kidnapping. General ...

In particular, the conflict in West Papua, between the Indigenous Papuan independence ... to the move by West Papuan ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than ... Then on Tuesday, leaders of the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement known as ...