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Footage allegedly filmed during February military raid in Puncak regency renews calls for international intervention in contested region Warning: this article contains graphic contentFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFootage of a West Papuan man, bound in a water-filled barrel and being beaten and cut with knives, allegedly by Indonesian...

Separatist fighters who seized Phillip Mehrtens say he will be released to protect humanity and safeguard human rights, but did not say whenRebels in Indonesia’s West Papua region have said they will release a New Zealand pilot who was taken hostage a year ago as a bargaining chip for their independence movement.The chief of general staff of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPN-PB),...