WEST Papuan independence activists who fled across the Torres Strait to Australia have been “dumped” in the Papua New Guinean capital, Port Moresby, in an apparent bid to sidestep a diplomatic row with Indonesia.
The seven asylum-seekers, who reached the Queensland island of Boigu on Tuesday, were flown to Port Moresby by Australian authorities overnight on Thursday and remained without guard last night at a hotel near the city’s airport.
They told The Weekend Australian yesterday of their flight from West Papua, describing how they waded through waist-deep sea waters at low tide to bypass an Indonesian border post.
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