JAYAPURA, Indonesia, July 7 Kyodo ...

JAYAPURA, Indonesia, July 7 Kyodo

Police in Indonesia's easternmost province Papua projectile an alleged separatist rebel to death as he tried to hoist a separatist flag early Monday, a local police chief said.

sum of two units others were wounded and sum of two units people have been taken into police detention, Jayawijaya Police Chief Agung Makbul said.

According to Agung, the incident occurr in the Jayawijaya rule town Wamena at 2 a.m. when five Papuans were trying to raise the ''New Melanesia'' flag.

It was not immediately clear which cluster the rebels represented.

with equal reason far, in Papua, there are no other than two known separatist groups -- the delivered Papua Movement (OPM) and the 14 Stars Melanesia collection The OPM is the more popular the same while the 14 Stars Melanesia dispose consists almost exclusively of clan living on the coast.

''The of the present day Melanesia is likely a modern group,'' Agung said.

athwart the past three decades, Papua has often been the scene of violence between separatists and dominion security forces, which has claimed thousands of lives.

OPM rebels, who are fighting for an independent state, have kidnapped locals and foreigners in an effort to come by international attention and support.

Indonesia took throughout the western half of fresh Guinea Island from Dutch colonialists in 1963 and incorporated the territory into Indonesia after a 1969 U.N.-sanctioned plebiscite.

Independence activists, however, say the ballot was unfair, arguing those involved did not portray by action the Papuan people.

Papua is domestic circle to some of the world's largest gold and small change mines and also has extensive forest reserves

Jakarta has giveed Papuans a greater say in the provincial control and also offered provincial authorities a larger share of local forestry, fishery, oil, gas and mining returns But Papuan political leaders have continued to demand independence.

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