Mozes Kilangin Airport
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| Location | Timika, Papua, Indonesia | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 04°31′44.76″S 136°53′11.76″E / 4.5291000°S 136.8866000°E | ||||||||||
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| Location | Tembagapura, Papua, Indonesia |
| Date | April 15, 1996 7:00 a.m. (WIT) |
| Target | Soldiers at Timika Airport |
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Mass murder |
| Weapons | Assault rifle (Pindad SS1?) |
| Deaths | 16 |
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11 |
| Perpetrator | Second Lieutenant Sanurip |
Timika Airport known as Mozes Kilangin Airport, is an airport in Timika, Papua, Indonesia (IATA: TIM, ICAO: WAYY old: WABP).
According to military spokesmen Kopassus Second Lieutenant Sanurip, 36, was reprimanded by another officer for being noisy when he awoke in a hangar that was used by the military as a commando post since the riots in Timika had erupted. As a reaction to this Sanurip began firing with his assault rifle at about 7 a.m. He first shot five other military personnel, including Lieutenant Colonel Adel Gustinigo, commander of Detachment 81, the counter-terrorist arm of the Indonesian army's elite special forces, as well as a major and captain, and then shot indiscriminately at anyone, while running out of the hangar.
Within seconds he killed 16 people – 5 Kopassus officers, 6 ABRI soldiers and 5 civilians, one of them New Zealander Michael Findlay, a helicopter pilot working for Airfast – and injured another 11-13, ten ABRI officers and three civilian/12 were military personnel and the remaining casualty a civil aviation worker. He was being held in military custody in Timika.
Sanurip was eventually shot in the leg and subdued by other soldiers.
The motive behind the rampage was not immediately known, though it was suggested that Sanurip was suffering from depression and was not in a healthy state, perhaps due to a malaria infection.
It was further reported that an army transporter, carrying the two soldiers killed in Mapenduma, made a fuel stop at Timika airport that morning, and that Sanurip began shooting after seeing their remains and realising that one of them was a friend of his, though it was stated by military spokesmen this information was not true and that there was no connection between the arrival of the bodies and the mass murder.
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