Unspeakable acts

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By PNG Echo. I spent last weekend, peering into Nietzsche’s abyss – not somewhere I’m happy to dwell but, sometimes, something so unspeakable happens that it’s necessary because lives depend upon us knowing what resides in that abyss. Sometimes we can’t and shouldn’t just look away. A human tragedy with inhuman consequences It all started when revered Papua New Guinean businessman and philanthropist, Jacob Luke, left his house in  Lakolam village, province of Enga, in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and never returned. His dead body was found sometime later in the surrounding bush. As I write, there has Continue reading Unspeakable acts→

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Peter Yama: A wolf in sheep’s clothing

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On the website of the Special Parliamentary Committee Against Gender-Based Violence is a public submission by the mother of a GBV victim. In the submission, she states that it will never be safe for her daughter to come home to PNG. Peter Yama: The man whom Satan fears She says that her daughter cannot return from her hiding place overseas, because her daughter fears the violent wrath of the influential Yama family (the alleged perpetrators and her in-laws) whom the mother’s failed to name in the submission for that same reason – fear Under the circumstances, her fear is not Continue reading Peter Yama: A wolf in sheep’s clothing→

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