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Weasel words from the Tin Man: The Prime Minister’s response to the torture of a 6yr old girl.

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The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Peter O’Neill, presides over a country where, according to Médecins Sans Frontières, the women are the most abused in the world outside of a conflict zone and where they “…endure some of the most extreme levels of violence in the world,” according to the Lowy Institute. (Reported in an article published in The National by journalist Grace Maribu.) Over this humanitarian crisis the Prime Minister expresses his “outrage” – but does little. When the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea finally came out with a press statement on the recent torture of a Continue reading Weasel words from the Tin Man: The Prime Minister’s response to the torture of a 6yr old girl.→

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Somare’s Singapore sling leaves Koim with a hang-over

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By PNG Echo The recent revelation that PNG’s former Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare, was named in a Singapore criminal prosecution as a recipient of $US784, 000.00 (K2, 540,000.00) has exposed Sam Koim’s position as a so-called anti-corruption fighter in PNG, as fundamentally compromised. Since Task Force sweep was decommissioned by the NEC, Koim has been kept afloat by unknown private sources. Is it Somare himself, or Somare’s political allies who are providing this funding? It’s really time Koim came clean with the people of PNG about who is funding his operations.  If Koim is, in fact funded by Somare Continue reading Somare’s Singapore sling leaves Koim with a hang-over→

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