FILE PHOTO: Janius Bagau, lying on a makeshift stretcher, is carried by his two brothers, Soni (black T-shirt with back to camera) and Yustinus (in green and yellow tracksuit top), and others on the way to a local health clinic in Intan Jaya regency, Papua, Indonesia, February 15, 2021. Handout via REUTERS
JAKARTA (Reuters) - One mid-February morning in the central highlands of the Indonesian province of Papua, the army said Prada Ginanjar Arianda, a 22-year-old member of the 400 Banteng Raiders commando battalion, was shot in the stomach by separatist fighters and died.
About 24 hours later, after a sweep by security forces through nearby hamlets that sent hundreds of residents fleeing to the safety of two churches, distraught family members were at a health clinic collecting the bodies of three brothers, Janius, Soni and Yustinus Bagau.
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