Kwalik’s End Game

Police killed OPM commander Kelly Kwalik in a dawn raid on his hideout in Timika.

January 5, 2010

IT was 3am on Wednesday three weeks ago when someone knocked on the door of a house in Kampung Gorong-Gorong in the Papua district of Timika with a greeting in Amungme, the local language. Unsuspectingly, the occupants of the house responded to the greeting and opened the door. Fifteen armed men rushed in.

The dawn raid by the police on the white-painted house left one of the occupants, Kelly Kwalik, dead. He was taken to the Kuala Kencana Hospi

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