Tag: Porgera killings
PNG police chief Manning declares emergency for Porgera
The National
Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner David Manning has declared emergency orders to safeguard infrastructure and residents in Porgera due to escalating law and...
‘Let your children live in peace’ plea by PNG’s Marape over...
RNZ Pacific
The Papua New Guinea government is calling for local communities in Porgera, Enga province, to end the violence as it works to reopen...
Porgera mine ‘killing fields’ – 21 Papua New Guineans die since...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The successful restart of Papua New Guinea's New Porgera Limited gold mine is currently at high risk due to...
Slaughter goes on in Porgera mining town as PNG police plan...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
While Papua New Guinean policing continues to be an issue in Porgera, Enga Province, the killings continue in the...
Post-Courier: Our capital Port Moresby our last stand for peace
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier editor Matthew Vari
For weeks, we have seen the election violence as it spread in horrific proportions around the Highlands...
Porgera villagers helpless, unsafe in their homes as ‘warlords’ kill freely
By Melisha Yafoi of the PNG Post-Courier
“It’s okay, we'll just sit here and they can come kill us.”
These chilling words are from a defenceless...
18 people hacked to death in Porgera in under an hour...
By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier
A brutal massacre in Porgera town yesterday afternoon in which 18 innocent people were killed has rocked Enga...