Taken Hostage in Irian

The Willem Onde group, known for its moderate stance toward the Free Papua Organization (OPM), is holding 16 hostages to back up demands addressed to the Indonesian Military and the government.

January 23, 2001

LEE Hun suddenly found himself faced with a host of problems that lay beyond his sphere of expertise: pay someone else's debt to a bar, embark on a safari through jungles and across rivers, act as negotiator. No sooner had he completed these unexpected tasks than armed OPM guerrillas led by Willem Onde captured him. Hun's safari through the jungles along the Fly River in the Merauke area bordering Papua New Guinea is a sequel to the abduction drama

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