Ammon Bundy, leader of the armed anti-government militia at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters near Burns, Oregon, January 5, 2016
Ammon Bundy, who led an anti-government occupation at a US wildlife refuge until his arrest in an operation that left one protester dead, Wednesday urged the last remaining holdouts to go home.
"To those remaining at the refuge, I love you. Let us take this fight from here," said a statement issued via Bundy's attorney Michael Arnold.
"Please stand down. Go home and hug your families. This fight is ours for now in the courts."Eight people including Bundy were taken into custody and one of his group was killed, reportedly while resisting arrest, in a dramatic twist late Tuesday to the three-week standoff in Oregon involving ranchers and farmers angry over federal land management policies.
Bundy paid tribute to the deceased, who has not been formally identified, as his "beloved friend" Lavoy Finicum, an Arizona rancher who became a de facto spokesman for the protest movement.
"Lavoy is one of the greatest men and greatest patriots I have ever seen," Bundy said. "I mourn for him and his family."Right now I am asking the federal government to allow the people at the refuge to go home without being prosecuted," he added. AFP
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