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March 12, 2024
PNG Post-Courier A ceasefire is expected on the battlefields of Wapenamanda in Papua New Guinea’s Enga Province that has claimed hundreds of lives and caused massive destruction to properties in three constituencies. According to lead peace negotiator and Enga Provincial Administrator Sandis Tsaka, a ceasefire agreement is anticipated to be signed this week among three ... <a title="Talks herald Wapenamanda massacre ceasefire in PNG tribal warfare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/talks-herald-wapenamanda-massacre-ceasefire-in-png-tribal-warfare/" aria-label="Read more about Talks herald Wapenamanda massacre ceasefire in PNG tribal warfare">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2024
Warning: This story contains details that may be distressing to some readers. By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent As women and children seek hope of a future without tribal fighting, the cycle of killing continues in Papua New Guinea’s remote Highlands. Tribal warfare dating back generations is being ... <a title="‘Chopped boy with a bush knife’: A PNG massacre killer says revenge is ‘only way’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/02/chopped-boy-with-a-bush-knife-a-png-massacre-killer-says-revenge-is-only-way/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Chopped boy with a bush knife’: A PNG massacre killer says revenge is ‘only way’">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2024
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Women’s rights advocates in Papua New Guinea are calling for peace and for the men in Parliament to act against the violence in the country. The call comes following tribal fighting in Enga Province ended in a mass massacre at the weekend, ... <a title="‘National crisis’: PNG women demand MPs act against all forms of violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/23/national-crisis-png-women-demand-mps-act-against-all-forms-of-violence/" aria-label="Read more about ‘National crisis’: PNG women demand MPs act against all forms of violence">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2024
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier Some people are literally making a killing in Enga. Yes, they really are. Hired gunmen are getting rich by the day and picking up women and girls as payments as well, leaving deaths and destruction in their wake in what is apparently becoming a booming industry. PNG POST-COURIER The news is ... <a title="Post-Courier: Stop PNG’s booming death and destruction industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/21/post-courier-stop-pngs-booming-death-and-destruction-industry/" aria-label="Read more about Post-Courier: Stop PNG’s booming death and destruction industry">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A man housing people who fled a massacre in Papua New Guinea’s Enga province yesterday says pregnant mothers and children are displaced. More than 50 bodies have been retrieved, with police still searching as intertribal tension continues. Prime Minister James Marape said he was “deeply moved” and “very, very ... <a title="Wapenamanda massacre: ‘Pregnant mothers fled for their lives’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/20/wapenamanda-massacre-pregnant-mothers-fled-for-their-lives/" aria-label="Read more about Wapenamanda massacre: ‘Pregnant mothers fled for their lives’">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2024
By Miriam Zarriga Under the banana leaves on a roadside in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands lies the dismembered and bullet-riddled bodies of eight men. All have been pulled out from the hillside along the highway from Wapenamanda to Wabag in Enga province. They were among at least 64 people killed in the worst outbreak of ... <a title="Wapenamanda massacre – 64 killed in PNG’s worst tribal fighting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/20/wapenamanda-massacre-64-killed-in-pngs-worst-tribal-fighting/" aria-label="Read more about Wapenamanda massacre – 64 killed in PNG’s worst tribal fighting">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guineans engaged in tribal fights will face life imprisonment once Parliament has its way with the amendment of the Tribal Fights Act in October. And the PNG government is looking at amending laws to also give police additional powers and immunity under special operations to protect the lives of policemen and ... <a title="PNG to upgrade Tribal Fights Act with life in jail for ‘domestic terrorists’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/png-to-upgrade-tribal-fights-act-with-life-in-jail-for-domestic-terrorists/" aria-label="Read more about PNG to upgrade Tribal Fights Act with life in jail for ‘domestic terrorists’">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2023
By Cretilda Alokaka in Port Moresby Six hired gunmen in Enga were shot dead by men from the Ambulin tribe on Friday in what Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has described as “jungle justice”. Police alleged that on Friday around 5am, the six men sneaked into Ambulin tribal territory to ambush them but ... <a title="PNG’s Marape condemns ‘jungle justice’ after 6 gunmen shot dead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/22/pngs-marape-condemns-jungle-justice-after-6-gunmen-shot-dead/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Marape condemns ‘jungle justice’ after 6 gunmen shot dead">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea police in Madang and the National Capital District have arrested a total of 101 men suspected of being involved in two separate incidents reported in both provinces over the long weekend. In Madang, 34 villagers were arrested after they clashed with police over the death of a local man from ... <a title="PNG police arrest 101 men in two-city crackdown after local killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/26/png-police-arrest-101-men-in-two-city-crackdown-after-local-killings/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police arrest 101 men in two-city crackdown after local killings">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2023
SPECIAL REPORT: By Miriam Zarriga at Wapenamanda, Papua New Guinea Standing in the middle of the countryside, the sound of heavy gunfire is loud and the shouts of the people in rural Wapenamanda in Papua New Guinea’s Enga province are fearful. Police and the PNG Defence Force officers are crouched hidden on the hillside, safeties ... <a title="‘We’re outgunned,’ says local PNG police chief – ‘give us firepower’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/15/were-outgunned-says-local-png-police-chief-give-us-firepower/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re outgunned,’ says local PNG police chief – ‘give us firepower’">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby At least 32 people have been killed in an all-out war between Kulumata and Kuboma tribes in Milne Bay’s Kiriwina island. Internal Security Minister Peter Tsiamalili Jr confirmed that the killings had erupted early last month after yam gardens were destroyed. “A police team from Port Moresby was deployed ... <a title="‘Frightening to see such violence’ in tribal war on PNG’s Kiriwina island" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/frightening-to-see-such-violence-in-tribal-war-on-pngs-kiriwina-island/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Frightening to see such violence’ in tribal war on PNG’s Kiriwina island">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Thirty people are reported to have been killed and many seriously injured in the worst tribal warfare on Kiriwina Island in Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay Province yesterday. The number of deaths will be the highest ever recorded during a tribal warfare on the island. Douglas Tomuriesa, the member for Kiriwina-Goodenough and Deputy ... <a title="30 killed, many injured in PNG ‘island of love’ tribal massacre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/25/30-killed-many-injured-in-png-island-of-love-tribal-massacre/" aria-label="Read more about 30 killed, many injured in PNG ‘island of love’ tribal massacre">Read more</a>
