The Indonesian military has been accused of attacking a refugee camp in West Papua territory, reportedly killing at least nine people including a toddler and a pregnant woman.

Free West Papua campaigners have labelled last week's latest attack which came to the attention of western media several days later an unqualified "colonial destruction".

Eyewitnesses say terrified villagers of the Puncak Regency's Kembru districtwere bombarded early in the morning with an array of modern weaponry.

Less destructive operations were also alleged to have been carried out in the Sinak and Pogoma districts of the regency.

United Liberation Movement for West Papua interim chairman, Benny Wenda, said recent actions from strongarm government forces across the western side of the New Guinea Highlands are continuing to intensify.

The violence follows another massacre earlier in the month where at least five people were killed at the hands of Indonesian police in the Dogiyai Regency.

"The true number of victims is currently impossible to know, as Indonesia has blockaded other-affected districts, preventing people and information from getting in or out," Mr Wenda, who is living in exile in London, said about the latest alleged attack. Mr Wenda said the violence has also resulted in "massive internal displacement" in the region, with numerous people forced to flee their homes as a result of the attacks.

One eyewitness told Free West Papua campaigners the bodies of the nine people most recently killed have been burnt in what appears to be a cover-up of the deaths.

The lives of Amer Walia, 77, Tiagen Walia, 76, Pelen Kogoya, 65, Kikungge Walia, 55, Deremet Telenggen, 55, Inikiwewo Walia, 52, Ekimira Kogoya, 47, Wundili Kogoya, 36, and Para Walia, 5, were confirmed to have been taken.

Military operations reportedly commenced around 5am as four attack helicopters began a bombing campaign on a Kembru refugee camp.which were accompanied by ground forces, who were said to shoot indiscriminately into the makeshift shelters.

The helicopters were accompanied by ground forces, who reportedly shot indiscriminately into the makeshift shelters.

The West Papuan civilians were said to be sleeping in their beds when the carnage unfolded.

The victims of the latest Kembru attack were forced from their West Papua homes by previous rounds of military violence in the occupied territory.

"Those refugees that were displaced further into the bush will have no access to healthcare" Mr Wenda said.

"Their children will not be able to attend school.

"Their crops and their livelihoods will perish, as the military prevents them from accessing their gardens.

"Many people will no doubt die from hunger or disease, as over 1100 West Papuans have since 2019.

"Indonesia is a criminal in West Papua and should be made a pariah on the international stage for their actions against my people.

"The inhumane culture of impunity that produced this massacre is a direct result of Indonesia's deliberate isolation of West Papua."

After the camps were first bombed in February, the event marks the second occasion where military forces have targeted Kembru this year, the conflict forcing former residents of nine villages to flee into the nearby forest.

Indonesia's latest attack appears to have been far more brutal and indiscriminate, with the military allegedly utilising bombs, guns, drones and grenades to kill civilians and destroy their temporary homes.

Indonesia's bombing of Kembru appears to be in direct contravention of a 2025 agreement made between the Indonesian military command and the West Papua National Liberation Army, which designated the entire Kembru district as a safe area for refugees.

Bombing designated safe zones, which includes any form of refugee camps, has been declared a crime against humanity by the United Nations and, according to the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, those military forces responsible should be tried for war crimes in the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

"Make no mistake: the targeting of children, pregnant women, and elders is a direct result of a government policy that views all West Papuans as terrorists," Mr Wenda said.

"In the eyes of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, all West Papuans are Kelompok Kriminal Bersenjata (Armed Criminal Group).

"They look on us as subhuman, squatters in our own land, although we've been its guardians for thousands of years."

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua has repeated its demand for Indonesia to allow the international community into the territory to aid its own refugees "at this time of acute crisis".

This extends to allowing the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to report from West Papua, in accordance with the demands of more than 110 UN member states, as well as allowing international journalists and non-government organisations — including the International Red Cross — to freely operate in West Papua without fear of expulsion or harassment, and for an internationally-mediated referendum on self-determination for West Papua.

"I also call on actors within the international community, particularly the Pacific, to do more to pressure Indonesia to open West Papua to the eyes of the world," Mr Wenda said.

Indonesia's Human Rights Minister, Natalius Pigai, said those people responsible for any civilian attacks will face legal repercussions.