TIGblogs - David Ephraim

Papua New Guinea my homeland is blessed with untouched natural resources but faces a lot of growing development challenges. After 33 years of Independence the violations of Human Rights remains one of the main concerns of this prevailing Democracy.

I am taking this steps to get much support in campaigning against people who taken law into their own hands by destroying and killing innocent people who are blamed for law and order issues. In a lot of cases vulnerable group of tribes have become the very victim of this kind of action.
One of the issue that happened recently from where I come from Morobe Patrol Post a historical part of Papua New Guinea in Morobe Province; A man was killed by criminals who where trying to steal from his Garden while he was guarding his garden due to continues stealing from his garden food. Later villagers from the deceased party blamed other village. And mobilized people and went over and destroyed people’s properties including burning down of Houses and beating up innocent people. This is not the first time this vulnerable group of people who are about 50 plus in population have been attacked. This is a contining process of attacks by other villagers living up and near Waria Valley. I come from a big and much populated part of the village further up the Waria river; Zare Ainse is where I come from. As Papua New Guinean I am not in any way of supporting such evil of my people and I condemn attack.

On other hand the Morobe Provincial Government have failed in engaging this people past 33 years; Even though some of our people have contributed greatly to the development of Papua New Guinea. The likes of former UN ambassador of PNG to UN and USA and Premier of Morobe Province Mr. Utula Samana the first Female eye specialist Dr. Bage Yominau.
The both elected Member of Huon Gulf Electorate Mr. Sasa Zibe and former Member Tukape Masani have not addressed or engage our people in the process of development of the patrol post which shares a historical part in former German Colonization of German New Guinea.

I am setting this Blog up to get more support from the Global Community to pressure my Government to try and prevent such incidents to happen in future. Please sing up and let your views be heard.