File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0106, message 515


From: "Peter Jovanovic" <peterzoran-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: AUT: recent events in Papuan New Guinea
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:48:18 +1000


hi all

a few days ago police in the PNG capital Port Moresby attacked a mostly 
student crowd who were protesting IMF/World Bank and Australian influence in 
PNG. Three students were killed. The students had successfully blockaded the 
suburb housing most of the government offices for about a week. on TV i saw 
an ex-prime minister of PNG, who is currently in hopsital in Oz, say that 
what was needed was a government of national unity to deal with this crisis. 
it's great how the ruling class are able to forget their differences when 
threatened isn't it? the oz foreign minister said in parliament that it 
would be a disaster for the PNG economy and people (ie Australian capital) 
if the 'reform' program was stopped. there's a few stories on melbourne 
indymedia about these events including this one:

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=12614&group=webcast

people could also try www.smh.com.au which is one of the better bourgeois 
papers in oz.

pete
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