From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 20:53:04 MST
How *does* one say "noble savage" nowadays? "<x> indigene", but I can't seem
to solve for x.... And "indigene" looks too much like "indignant", and "jeans"
are sweatshop tools of the oppressor. I'm sooooo confuuuuused.
Damien Broderick wrote:
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6038056%255E27
> 03,00.html
>
> Ethnic killings hit PNG
> By Mary-Louise O'Callaghan, South Pacific correspondent
> 25feb03
>
> SEVEN people are dead and more than 20 houses have been destroyed in Port
> Moresby during weekend clashes between rival Papua New Guinea ethnic groups.
>
> The deaths are the latest in a series of violent incidents to have beset the
> capital since the country's economic downturn sharpened ethnic tensions.
>
> PNG has more than 700 different language groups, with many still practising
> tribal warfare and the tradition of "payback" or revenge killings.
>
> At least three of the men killed at the weekend were chopped to death in one
> of the town's more notorious outskirt squatter settlements, Nine Mile,
> populated by people from the Central Province Goilala language group.
>
> The incident occurred when relatives of a Southern Highlands businessman,
> who was killed after a dispute with people from Goilala the previous
> evening, allegedly rampaged through the settlement, slashing the three men
> and pulling down housing and shelters.
>
> Port Moresby police chief Geoffrey Vaki said he wanted "instigators and
> escalators" of ethnic clashes to be dealt with harshly.
>
> "I will not tolerate ethnic trouble here," he said.
>
> "Not a weekend goes by without some sort of tribal clashes. It makes the
> call for repatriation of people to their home (provinces) more credible," he
> said in a reference to calls by PNG politicians for the repatriation of all
> settlement dwellers from the capital.
>
> [etc]
>
>
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