JAKARTA - The police in Indonesia have charged seven people for their alleged involvement in a number of shootings, some of them with deaths as a result. The shootings were organized in the area of the Freeport gold mine in Indonesia's most easternmost and remote province of Papua. All of them have been charged with murder and possessing a weapon. Two of them are workers of Freeport.
Attacks earlier this month killed and Australian technician, an Indonesian policeman and a security guard. The attacks are blamed on separatists in the region and locals who do not benefit from the mine. Twelve other people, mostly Indonesian police, were wounded in the attacks that all took place along the same long road between the town of Mimika and the mine itself.
Papua has been the scene of mainly peaceful activism against the Indonesian 'occupation' of Papua, as the separatists call the situation. Ever since the rigged vote for independence in 1969 there have been skirmishes in the province every now and then. Separatist rebels were also blamed for this attack, but the Free Papua Movement OPM denies any involvement.
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JAKARTA - The police in Indonesia have charged seven people for their alleged involvement in a number of shootings, some of them with deaths as a result. The shootings were organized in the area of the Freeport gold mine in Indonesia's most easternmost and remote province of Papua. All of them have been charged with murder and possessing a weapon. Two of them are workers of Freeport.
