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Papua New Guinea: Aust. exec Admits Role in Human Rights Abuse

 

Source: Greenleft

By Kristian Lasslett

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Champion of Aborigines Gummi Fridriksson 'evicts' PNG's Poor

The following article via The Australian is the most recent development in the Paga Hill saga (The Forced Eviction at Paga Hill - A Brief History of Portion 1597 Granville)

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Why I Give 'bout Paga Hill

By Scott Waide

The Paga hill story isn’t just about the demolition of houses and the displacement of families.

It is not about "stupid, uneducated people who should go back to their villages.” No. It’s about a global profit driven economic and political system that dictates that profits are far more important than human lives.

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Pomio: Logging, lawlessness & a crisis of legitimacy

Andrew Lattas gives an account below of logging, lawlessness and a crisis of legitimacy in one (out of a hundred other) areas of Papua New Guinea, where local land grab, has left a group of aggrieved locals intimidated and brutalized by members of the Royal PNG Constabulary.

State Agencies that are supposed to be Regulators of foreign investment activities, are actively facilitating human rights abuse in defense of foreign interests.

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