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Two killed in clash in Indonesia's Papua province
 


By Reuters
Saturday December 9, 02:40 PM 
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Two people including an Indonesian military officer were 
killed in a clash between security forces and separatists in the remote eastern 
province of Papua, a military official said on Saturday. 

The clash occurred on Friday after the officer and some residents tried to 
enter a separatist camp in Puncak Jaya regency, about 325 km southwest of 
Jayapura, the capital of Papua, Imam Santosa told Reuters. 

No other details were available. 

Papuan independence activists have waged a campaign for more than 30 years to 
break away from Indonesia while a low-level armed rebellion has also simmered 
for decades. 

Human rights groups have accused the Indonesian military of widespread abuses 
in Papua. 

Critics say grievances among Papuans stem from such abuses and from 
dissatisfaction over Jakarta's distribution of wealth generated by the 
province, rich in gold and natural gas. 

Jakarta took over Papua from Dutch colonial rule in 1963. In 1969 its rule was 
formalised in a vote by community leaders which was widely criticised as 
political theatre. 

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said last August he wanted to end conflict 
in Papua after the signing of a peace accord with rebels from Aceh province, 
Indonesia's other separatist region in the country's far northwest. 





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