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Ammon Bundy issues new call for last occupiers to leave Oregon refuge [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Ammon Bundy issues new call for last occupiers to leave Oregon refuge
Speaking through his attorneys, jailed militia leader tells four holdouts at
Malheur wildlife refuge that there ‘was never meant to be an armed standoff’
Carol J Williams in Burns, Oregon
Saturday 30 January 2016 20.24 GMT
The jailed militia leader Ammon Bundy has again appealed to the four people still occupying the Malheur national wildlife refuge in south-east Oregon to surrender, saying the protest he led there “was never meant to be an armed standoff”.
In a cellphone call from the Multnomah County jail in Portland, where Bundy and other activists have been held on federal felony charges since their arrests and the fatal shooting of activist Robert LaVoy Finicum in a traffic stop on Tuesday, the Idaho rancher told the remaining occupiers to “go home to your families”.
“Please do not make it about something it wasn’t supposed to be,” Bundy said in the call to his attorneys, Mike Arnold and Lissa Casey, who taped the conversation and relayed it to the holdouts at the refuge 30 miles north-east of Burns.
Bundy’s “militia” group seized the headquarters buildings of the 187,000-acre refuge on 2 January, to demand that the public lands be released to local control.
On Saturday, Bundy’s wife, Lisa, seated next to the attorneys, issued a separate appeal to the four to bring the nearly monthlong confrontation to an end.
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Speaking through his attorneys, jailed militia leader tells four holdouts at
Malheur wildlife refuge that there ‘was never meant to be an armed standoff’
Carol J Williams in Burns, Oregon
Saturday 30 January 2016 20.24 GMT
The jailed militia leader Ammon Bundy has again appealed to the four people still occupying the Malheur national wildlife refuge in south-east Oregon to surrender, saying the protest he led there “was never meant to be an armed standoff”.
In a cellphone call from the Multnomah County jail in Portland, where Bundy and other activists have been held on federal felony charges since their arrests and the fatal shooting of activist Robert LaVoy Finicum in a traffic stop on Tuesday, the Idaho rancher told the remaining occupiers to “go home to your families”.
“Please do not make it about something it wasn’t supposed to be,” Bundy said in the call to his attorneys, Mike Arnold and Lissa Casey, who taped the conversation and relayed it to the holdouts at the refuge 30 miles north-east of Burns.
Bundy’s “militia” group seized the headquarters buildings of the 187,000-acre refuge on 2 January, to demand that the public lands be released to local control.
On Saturday, Bundy’s wife, Lisa, seated next to the attorneys, issued a separate appeal to the four to bring the nearly monthlong confrontation to an end.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/30/oregon-militia-standoff-malheur-wildlife-refuge-ammon-bundy-attorneys
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