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Blood of your blood: The enemy within

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By PNG Echo There is a humanitarian crisis in the Pacific…well there’s more than one… but it’s not with the plight of the West Papuan people that this article is concerned. This article is about the violence against women in Papua New Guinea. A recent article in the Brisbane Courier (and replicated around Australia) reported many instances of gut-churning abuse in Papua New Guinea where the perpetrators proudly boasted and showed off their brutality – Including the gang on the left. It ended with a video of a young mother who had sought refuge in a ‘safe house’ after the Continue reading Blood of your blood: The enemy within→

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…then the crowd watched as they burned her alive.

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By PNG Echo It’s funny what gets etched into memory and what gets forgotten – I remember that today, February 6, is the birthday of the now adult twin boys of my childhood friend, whom I have not seen for decades. Today is also the anniversary of the brutal slaying of Kepari Leniata – and I had forgotten. Yet it was just one short year ago that this young mother, from Papua New Guinea was accused of witchcraft and publicly burned alive. How she suffered is unimaginable. After many hours of torture, with the perpetrators committing unspeakable acts of sexual violence Continue reading …then the crowd watched as they burned her alive.→

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