A retired colonel who attempted to take over Papua New Guinea’s military and ordered the prime minister to step down has been arrested and charged with mutiny.
Police spokesman Dominic Kakas said Yaura Sasa was arrested Saturday night in a suburb of Port Moresby, the capital. A court spokesman said Sasa was charged with mutiny and appeared in court Sunday.
Sasa led a small group of soldiers in a mutiny Thursday in which the military’s top commander was briefly held under house arrest. The mutiny was part of a power struggle in which Prime Minister Peter O’Neill and former Prime Minister Michael Somare claim to be the rightful leader of the South Pacific
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