Announcement comes hours after rebels said the Indonesian army had bombed its headquarters where Mehrtens is being kept
The West Papua National Liberation Army has released terms for the release of Phillip Mehrtens a year and seven months after he was taken hostageThe West Papua National Liberation Army has released terms for the release of Phillip Mehrtens a year and seven months after he was taken hostageNational Liberation Army released a statement saying the Indonesian army bombed its headquarters in Alguru, which is where Mehrtens is being kept. The statement also said Mehrtens “survived the attack”.
The terms proposed that Mehrtens should be escorted from Ndugama by New Zealand police and army to Sentani airport in Jayapura, on a plane arranged by the New Zealand government or an Air Niugini aircraft chartered by the army. Andreas Harsono, who covers Indonesia for Human Rights Watch, said the proposal was “realistic”, despite Indonesia’s ongoing restriction of reporters and human rights monitors into the region., which makes up the western half of Papua New Guinea, since Indonesia took control of the former Dutch colony in 1969.National Liberation Army is the armed wing of the Free West Papua Movement, which has continued to demand a fair vote on self-determination.
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