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Stop Human Rights Violations In Papua New Guinea
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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.
Stop Human Rights Violations In Papua New Guinea
Translated into French by: David Ephraim
Stop Human Rights Violations In Papua New Guinea
Translated into Spanish by: David Ephraim
Stop Human Rights Violations In Papua New Guinea
Translated into Arabic by: David Ephraim
Stop Human Rights Violations In Papua New Guinea
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Stop Human Rights Violations In Papua New Guinea
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I heavily support this concern and the issues that are associated with it that are taking place in Papua New Guinea. I believe that strong government support of human rights is a good way to tell how much a government cares about this people. Obviously the constitutional parliamentary democracy in Papua New Guinea isn't a total failure because it has a good economy, based upon the sales of exports and imports. However i believe that the many different sections of PNG, that are home to many different tribes of indigenous people, makes it very hard to govern due to the lack of closeness of the people. Also, i believe that Somare is doing a good job fixing the economy and medical problems, but should focus some more attention on the social aspects, such as human rights violation, because in order for Somare to have support, which he does because he served the first 5 year term, he needs to show the people he cares,and he can do that by making life better for the people who gave him his power.
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I agree with both IamGod and David Ephraim. The government in Papua New Guinea, as in most countries, has a very influential stance on the people. Unfortunatley for many, Human Rights are being taking advantage of. As David said, people are taking their problems into their hands. This can not only be said about the people. The police are not doing their job either. I was reading in an article that police violence has been up since 2005. People in custody of the police have been complainning about how they are being treated. It was reported that some were getting beaten, burned, or forced to have sex with other people in custody. The police producing these harsh crimes are not getting in trouble either. It seems as if the police force in Papua New Guinea is doing the opposite of what they should be doing. On top of that, the conditions of the cells are not safe to be held in. Nor are the guards treating the people with the respect they deserve. (I know these people may have commited a crime, but it could be a very minimal one. The convicts deserve the respect you would give to anyone else.) The conditions of the cells are very rough. Many times the police do not provide sufficient help if the inmate was bleeding or injured. Also, the inmates are not always provided with healthy drinking water nor beds to sleep in. Lastly, many a times children are mixed in with the adults. The police force in no way shape or form helps out the Human Rights. The government needs to take a strong look at this.
Along with the government taking a look at the police force, they need to be looking into discrimantion against woman. Woman are often gang raped and tortured for no apparent reason. In October it was reported a man pulled out the fetus from his pregnant wife's womb. This action got widespread public issue, but in the end the police did nothing about it. There was a petition on violence against woman sent to the parliament. Over 4,000 woman signed this petition. Parliament has declined to talk about the issue. Parliament needs to get their act together. Between this and the police force Papua New Guinea is not seeming like a good country. Acts like this are very wrong to woman. No people, man or woman, should ever go through discrimanation like this. Parliament must open it's eyes and see what is happening right in front of them.
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That was Godly
Even though i am God, i could not have blogged that argument better myself.
I would further like to add to George's comment by stating this statistic
"Research conducted in Papua New Guinea in the 1980s found that on average two thirds of women had been hit by their partner. In two Highlands provinces included in the study almost one hundred percent of women reported that they had been hit by their partners."
That is not acceptable, however the lack of human rights in Papua New Guinea allows men to feel that is is acceptable. The fact that men control everything because they have a heavy hand, is not right and the government should acknowledge this and make an attempt to fix it immediately. Two major reasons that men having total control is not the best option for PGN families is one, because it is not morally fair. And secondly, the heavy amounts of unprotected sex, is leading to a very high aids epidemic. Which is quickly become a massive problem is the field of health in PNG.
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I completely agree with you, God. The government must take action against these human rights violations! Did you know some police have been abusing their powers and unlawfully killing some citizens INCLUDING children?! I think that this is terrible. The government MUST take action!!!
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Human Rights Violations
I agree with all of you, the violence is terrible and unproductive. Though, I don't think this issue concerns "human rights" (although innocent people are becoming casualties of unneccessary fighting) as much as it reveals a problem with the Papau New Guinea government failing to police the area of said incidents. The way I see it, the murdering of innocent civilians is a crime, much like a common murder case, just like the raping of innocent women in the country. What the government needs to do is send in some kind of ruling hand, like the police force, army, etc, to occupy the areas with the most violence against humanity, or simply crimes. This way they can prevent the harm that is being done.
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I LOVE ALL MY CHILDREN
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Human Rights Violations
The issues going on in Papua New Guinea are not the governments fault. With only 109 people in one city looking out for the welfare of over 800 primitive tribes, there are going to be problems. For most people, hitting their wives and killing others for perceived wrongs is how life works, it's what they've grown up with and has occured since people arrived in New Guinea
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Killing others for perceived wrongs
Like you said, Mimi, the government is not at fault for all the problems in PNG.
It is a problem for individual villages and tribes and people too. In David Ephraim's original post, a man was killed at his garden because people were stealing from it and he didn't let them.
But why were people stealing from his garden? Because they didn't have other food to eat? Or was it for some kind of pay back?
Were the people who stole from the garden actually from another village, or were they just raskols? If they were from the other village, why didn't the people in that village stop them? Wouldn't it be better if people from the steal man's village stopped him (before anyone was killed) instead of having the police stop him and put him in jail (with all the problems previously mentioned).
I think traditional ways of controlling violence can go a long way toward reducing problems that the government cannot control. It is not taim bilong kiap anymore.
I don't know how to stop the raskol problem, but maybe part of the problem is that they don't have a garden or a job. Everybody wants to be able to eat and get what they need to live...and more if they can.
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