West Papua freedom fighter defends military campaign

In the past two years, the West Papua Liberation Army has launched a series of deadly attacks against Indonesian security forces in Papua's rugged central Highlands.

The campaign escalated in late 2018 when the Liberation Army's fighters under commander Egianus Kogeya killed at least 17 Indonesian road construction workers in Nduga regency. 

Among its various attacks, the pro-independence guerilla force also claimed responsibility for an attack on the Freeport mining company in which a New Zealander Graeme Thomas Wall was killed in March this year in Mimika regency.

Johnny Blades caught up with Jeffrey Bomanak, who claims to be the Chairman of the wider Free Papua Movement (OPM), for a chat about the merits of military action.