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MERCENARIES' HAD ROLE IN IRIAN JAYA | Pacific Islands Report

MERCENARIES HAD ROLE IN IRIAN JAYA
Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/14/1999 - 00:00
By Peter Cronau
SYDNEY, Australia (July 13, 1999 - Bushfire Media/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire) -The former CEO of the South African mercenary group, Executive Outcomes, has revealed that his company provided training and operational advice to the Indonesian special forces in an operation to rescue hostages held in West Papua (Irian Jaya) in 1996.
Nick van den Bergh informed the writer that he led a team of five military advisers who traveled to Indonesia to provide training in special techniques to KOPASSUS special forces troops led by now-disgraced Major-General Prabowo Subianto. ....

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WHY A FIJI WOMAN STOLE A BABY | Pacific Islands Report

WHY A FIJI WOMAN STOLE A BABY
Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/14/2000 - 00:00
By Sanawaka Inoke
SUVA, Fiji Islands (April 13, 2000 – Fiji’s Daily Post/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire) -A Nausori woman who stole a newborn baby from Fiji s main hospital on Monday [has told a court] she was under pressure from her husband s family to have a child.
Druma Tavoinayako, 21, pleaded guilty to stealing the baby girl from the Colonial War Memorial Hospital before Magistrate Makereta Waqavonovono in Suva court.
Suva lawyer Nepote Vere, representing Tavoinayako, said she stole the baby to please her husband s family. Tavoinayako lived in a childless marriage with her in-laws. ....

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BODY BLOW TO TERTIARY EDUCATION IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Pacific Islands Report

BODY BLOW TO TERTIARY EDUCATION IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Submitted by admin on Fri, 01/29/1999 - 00:00
THE NATIONAL Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
EDITORIAL January 27, 1999
By the end of this year, the University of Papua New Guinea will not be the institution it has been and its intellectual capital will be much reduced.
Those words are taken from a staff circular issued by the university’s embattled Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Rodney Hills.
They refer to the university council s decision to abolish two faculties and the library, journalism and most of the information programs, and to raise student fees by a quarter from next year. ....

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THE VOICE OF FIJI'S CHURCHES | Pacific Islands Report

THE VOICE OF FIJI’S CHURCHES
Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/15/2000 - 00:00
By David Robie Â© USP Journalism Programme
SUVA, Fiji Islands (June 14, 2000 – USP Journalism Programme/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire) -Fiji s churches have made belated appeals this week for their parishioners to refuse support for rebel leader George Speight s insurrection and for the 31 hostages to be freed.
But leaders of the country s most influential church, the Methodist Church, have given mixed messages by condemning the attempted coup, yet apparently also giving tacit support for calls for a Christian state, and visiting Speight as well as the head of the military government, Commodore Frank Bainimarama. ....

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SOLOMONS AUTHORITIES UNDER FIRE OVER MEDIA GAG | Pacific Islands Report

SOLOMONS AUTHORITIES UNDER FIRE OVER MEDIA GAG
Submitted by admin on Mon, 08/09/1999 - 00:00
( See PMW items 2203, 2201, 2195, 2194. PIM website is at http://www.pim.com.fj)
SUVA, Fiji Islands (August 4, 1999 Â Pacific Media Watch/Pacific Islands Monthly/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire) -An international news agency reporter covering the recent Solomon Islands ethnic clashes has criticized the media gag and a severe personality clash among authorities as problems for journalists.
Writing in the August edition of the Suva-based Pacific Islands Monthly newsmagazine, Michael Field cited a gagging writ against the weekly Solomon Voice newspaper by police commissioner Frank Short over a critical letter.
The letter reportedly targeted the Englishman who has a background in South Africa s apartheid era police force. ....

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