Footage shows hostage Phillip Mark Mehrtens, from Christchurch, New Zealand, in Indonesia with rebels from the Free Papua Organisation.
Rebels in Indonesia’s West Papua region have released a series of videos of themselves with a pilot who was taken hostage last week.
The pilot was scheduled to pick up 15 construction workers who had been building a health centre in Paro after a group of rebels, led by Egianus Kogoya, had threatened to kill them, said Nduga district chief Namia Gwijangge. Sitting in the plane’s cockpit, Kogoya said he took the pilot hostage as part of their struggle ‘to free Papua’ from Indonesia.
‘I took him hostage for Papua independence, not for food or drinks,’ Kogoya said in the video with the man standing next to him.
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