Authorities plan to cut off power to militia at occupied Oregon refuge

Federal authorities are planning to cut off the power of the wildlife refuge in Oregon that has been taken over by militia, exposing the armed occupiers to sub-zero temperatures in an effort to flush them out.

 

Armed militants will begin their third day at the Malheur national wildlife refuge, a remote federal outpost in eastern Oregon, on Tuesday, and have vowed to remain for months in protest over the treatment of two local cattle ranchers.

 

A federal government official told the Guardian that authorities were planning on Monday to cut the power at the refuge.

 

“It’s in the middle of nowhere,” said the official, who is based in Washington, DC, and has knowledge of the planned response to the militia. “And it’s flat-ass cold up there.”

 

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