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The journalist, the Human Rights’ Commissioner, the Prime Minister and the abuses.

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By PNG Echo It is, by now, well known that, last weekend, this journalist was refused entry into Papua New Guinea (PNG) by order of the Prime Minister. It was heavy handed, provocative and ultimately an exercise in futility. May I remind the Prime Minister that there have been very successful revolutions enacted remotely – the Ayotollah Khomeini effected the Iranian revolution from enforced exile in Paris, for instance.   In PNG, political revolution is not called for – the government was democratically elected and ought to be free to do its job. It’s the fact that this government is Continue reading The journalist, the Human Rights’ Commissioner, the Prime Minister and the abuses.→

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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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