Dossier
Balinggama village
Coverage of Balinggama village in the Nexus archive.
- Papua separatists claim to have shot dead a US pilot who transported Indonesian troops
A Papua separatist group claimed to have shot dead an American pilot, Nicholas F. Goselin, who operated an Indonesian airline aircraft transporting troops. The group accused the pilot of violating a ban on civilian flights in their designated operational zones and set fire to the aircraft. The separatists called for international negotiations to resolve the conflict in Papua.