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January 4, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Levo in Port Moresby In all of the meandering years in the life of Papua New Guinea, 2021, which ended on Friday has to be it. The colours were there, the love and laughter were there, the sadness, emotions, losses, highs and lows, the bleakness of our long-suffering population and blackness of ... <a title="The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea to the core" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/the-bleak-and-black-covid-year-that-shook-papua-new-guinea-to-the-core/" aria-label="Read more about The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea to the core">Read more</a>
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December 27, 2021
By Rebecca Kuku and Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby As families prepare to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones, a safe house in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby has kicked out gender-based violence survivors, leaving them homeless for the festive season. One of the survivors, 37-year-old Gathy Peter from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, ... <a title="Christmas on the street for PNG survivor of jailed wife basher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/27/christmas-on-the-street-for-png-survivor-of-jailed-wife-basher/" aria-label="Read more about Christmas on the street for PNG survivor of jailed wife basher">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2021
By Kizzy Kalsakau and Jason Abel in Port Vila The interim President of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) provisional government, Benny Wenda, has condemned Indonesia for the arrest and torture of eight students, and appeals to Melanesian countries to support their plea. The eight West Papuan students were arrested by Indonesian police ... <a title="Wenda slams Jakarta over Papuan student arrests, seeks support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/21/wenda-slams-jakarta-over-papuan-student-arrests-seeks-support/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda slams Jakarta over Papuan student arrests, seeks support">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2021
By Jan Kohout in Noumea There have been mixed opinions from New Caledonia’s communities after the third and final referendum returned a 96 percent vote against independence. While anti-independence parties welcomed the victory, the pro-independence Kanak side refuse to recognise the result. The turnout of potential voters was especially low among the Kanak community because ... <a title="‘France still doesn’t understand us Kanaks after 30 years of dialogue’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/21/france-still-doesnt-understand-us-kanaks-after-30-years-of-dialogue/" aria-label="Read more about ‘France still doesn’t understand us Kanaks after 30 years of dialogue’">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2021
By Yance Agapa in Jayapura The Papuan people have rejected the investigation team formed by the Indonesian state through the Attorney-General’s Office (AGO) to investigate alleged gross human rights violations in Paniai on 8 December 2014. “To this day Indonesia has never solved any cases of gross human rights violations in the land of Papua, ... <a title="Families of victims reject Jakarta 2014 Paniai massacre investigation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/19/families-of-victims-reject-jakarta-2014-paniai-massacre-investigation/" aria-label="Read more about Families of victims reject Jakarta 2014 Paniai massacre investigation">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2021
RNZ Pacific The United Nations says Indonesia must immediately drop charges and look into threats, intimidation and reprisals against human rights defender Veronica Koman and her family. Veronica Koman, a human and minority rights lawyer, is in self-imposed exile in Australia. However, she still faces several charges in Indonesia for alleged incitement, spreading fake news, ... <a title="UN warns Indonesia to stop reprisals against human rights defender" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/19/un-warns-indonesia-to-stop-reprisals-against-human-rights-defender/" aria-label="Read more about UN warns Indonesia to stop reprisals against human rights defender">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby Hundreds of settlers from the controversial Garden Hills settlement along Waigani Drive in Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District (NCD) have been thrown out of their homes after a court order enforced by police. Their homes on church-owned land were razed by bulldozers yesterday. Policemen deployed at the eviction ... <a title="Garden Hills squatters evicted in Port Moresby crackdown on church land" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/garden-hills-squatters-evicted-in-port-moresby-crackdown-on-church-land/" aria-label="Read more about Garden Hills squatters evicted in Port Moresby crackdown on church land">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
ANALYSIS: By David Robie After three decades of frustratingly slow progress but with a measure of quiet optimism over the decolonisation process unfolding under the Noumea Accord, Kanaky New Caledonia is again poised on the edge of a precipice. Two out of three pledged referendums from 2018 produced higher than expected – and growing — ... <a title="Betrayal of Kanaky decolonisation by Paris risks return to dark days" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/betrayal-of-kanaky-decolonisation-by-paris-risks-return-to-dark-days/" aria-label="Read more about Betrayal of Kanaky decolonisation by Paris risks return to dark days">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s pro-independence parties say the French overseas minister’s visit in the next few days is unwelcome, describing it as “another provocation”. Overseas Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced his trip as New Caledonia readies for Sunday’s third and final independence referendum after rejected pleas by the pro-independence parties to postpone it to next year ... <a title="French minister’s visit ‘a provocation’, say pro-independence parties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/french-ministers-visit-a-provocation-say-pro-independence-parties/" aria-label="Read more about French minister’s visit ‘a provocation’, say pro-independence parties">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
By Robert Iroga in Honiara The Malaita for Democracy (M4D) group has been declared an illegal organisation because of the alleged role of individuals in last month’s riots in the capital Honiara. The Governor-General and Commander in Chief of Solomon Islands, Sr David Vunagi, declared M4D an unlawful society under section 66 (2) (ii) of ... <a title="Malaita’s M4D group declared illegal for alleged role in Solomons riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/malaitas-m4d-group-declared-illegal-for-alleged-role-in-solomons-riots/" aria-label="Read more about Malaita’s M4D group declared illegal for alleged role in Solomons riots">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific A late legal bid to postpone Sunday’s independence referendum in New Caledonia has reportedly failed. A leading anti-independence leader and president of New Caledonia’s Southern Province, Sonia Backes, said the highest French administrative court had rejected an urgent submission to defer the third and final independence referendum until next year. The submission was ... <a title="Paris court clears way for Sunday’s New Caledonia referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/paris-court-clears-way-for-sundays-new-caledonia-referendum/" aria-label="Read more about Paris court clears way for Sunday’s New Caledonia referendum">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific Malaita province in Solomon Islands is planning to poll people on self-determination. It comes two weeks after a Malaitan-led protest against the national government in Honiara degenerated into a violent riot. The Malaita Premier, Daniel Suidani, said he was seeking the help of the United Nations in the referendum, which he hoped to ... <a title="Malaita plans self-determination poll to see if it’s ‘still in the mind’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/malaita-plans-self-determination-poll-to-see-if-its-still-in-the-mind/" aria-label="Read more about Malaita plans self-determination poll to see if it’s ‘still in the mind’">Read more</a>
