New Zealand hostage pilot Phillip Mehrtens . . . photographed last year with his pro-independence Melanesian rebel captors in Indonesian-ruled Papua region. Image: TPNPB/RNZ More videos appear to have ...
A New Zealand pilot taken hostage in West Papua says his life is in danger amid a wave of Indonesian air strikes on the area where he is being held. “Indonesia military have been dropping bombs ...
More videos appear to have been released by the West Papua Liberation Army showing Kiwi hostage Phillip Mehrtens. The New Zealander was taken hostage more than a year ago on 7 February in Paro, Papua, ...
A man is in custody after a chaotic night that saw police officers shot at and people taken hostage in their own homes in the eastern Bay of Plenty overnight. The ordeal began at around 10pm on ...
Indonesia's military has denied using air strikes in a remote, restive part of the country after a video of a New Zealand pilot kidnapped by Papuan rebels featured him saying military actions had made ...