- Title: Indonesia military evacuate thousands of Wamena migrants to capital of Papua
- Date: 30th September 2019
- Summary: JAYAPURA, PAPUA PROVINCE, INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 30, 2019) (REUTERS) C-130 HERCULES ARRIVE AT JAYAPURA MILITARY AIR BASE TARMAC MILITARY AND OFFICIALS WAIT FOR PLANE VARIOUS OF PLANE TAXIING MILITARY WELCOMING REFUGEES VARIOUS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL WELCOMING REFUGEES WALKING OUT FROM PLANE JAYAPURA, PAPUA PROVINCE, INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 29, 2019) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) JAYAPURA MILITARY AIR BASE COMMANDER, TRI BOWO BUDI SANTOSO, SAYING: "So far, we have focused to bring back refugees from Wamena to Jayapura, there are thousands of refugees … can you imagine that this morning around 7,000 refugees registered to go with us." JAYAPURA, PAPUA PROVINCE, INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 30, 2019) (REUTERS) REFUGEES WALKING OUT FROM PLANE RAMP DOOR JAYAPURA, PAPUA PROVINCE, INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 29, 2019) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) JAYAPURA MILITARY AIR BASE COMMANDER, TRI BOWO BUDI SANTOSO, SAYING: "We are providing the assistance too for people or refugees who are still in Wamena and we have already sent about 39 tons of food and cooking wares and others, as we know that many refugees are still in Wamena and shops are still closed for their daily necessities." JAYAPURA, PAPUA PROVINCE, INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 30, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MILITARY WELCOMING REFUGEES
- Embargoed: 14th October 2019 11:20
- Keywords: Papua unrest refugee military evacuation migrants conflict wamena
- Location: JAYAPURA, PAPUA PROVINCE, INDONESIA
- City: JAYAPURA, PAPUA PROVINCE, INDONESIA
- Country: Indonesia
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
- Reuters ID: LVA001AYUKWNB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
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Indonesia military assisted thousands of migrants to evacuate from Wamena on Monday (September 30) after Indonesian security forces said that 35 civilians and a soldier were killed last week in Jayapura and Wamena, in an escalation of the violence that has convulsed the region for the past six weeks.
Besides evacuating more refugees, the military aircraft had also brought some assistance on its flight back to Wamena to help the affected cope with their daily necessities.
The bloodshed marked a major escalation in unrest in Indonesia's easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua, collectively known as Papua, which were rocked by demonstrations in August over perceived ethnic and racial discrimination. The wave of protests is the most serious civil unrest for decades in an area that is home to a distinct ethnic Melanesian population.
Resource-rich Papua, which shares the island of New Guinea with the nation of Papua New Guinea, was a Dutch colony that was incorporated into Indonesia after a controversial U.N.-backed referendum in 1969. The region has since endured decades of mostly low-level separatist conflict.
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