Thousands flee violence in Indonesia’s Papua
By AFP
November 01, 2021
Timika, Indonesia: Church leaders in Indonesia’s conflict-wracked Papua region called for calm on Sunday as thousands fled to shelters after a two-year-old boy was killed in a firefight between government troops and independence-seeking rebels.
The restive region at the easternmost edge of the Southeast Asian archipelago has been the scene of intermittent clashes for decades in one of the world’s longest-running insurgencies.
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