{"id":1371,"date":"2009-06-06T21:43:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T16:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2009-06-06T21:43:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T16:13:59","slug":"indigenous-resistance-aid-rising-but-extreme-poverty-destroys-cash-scam-looting-kwaso-targeting-chinese-with-operation-high-visibility-and-13ft-crocodile-with-new-influx-of-myanmar-muslims-and-pap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE AID RISING, BUT EXTREME POVERTY DESTROYS CASH SCAM, LOOTING, KWASO, TARGETING CHINESE WITH OPERATION HIGH VISIBILITY AND 13FT CROCODILE WITH NEW INFLUX OF MYANMAR MUSLIMS AND PAPUA PRISONERS&#8217; WATER MARK LAW AMID CORAL TRIANGLE FISH POISONING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Council of Women in Papua New Guinea says people of all ages<br \/>\nare dying from starvation, despite the government\u2019s comments that nobody is<br \/>\nlacking food or water.<\/p>\n<p>A haul of skulls and other body parts has been linked to five shipping<br \/>\ncontainers on the sea bed off the southern Chon Buri province.<\/p>\n<p>A central bank worker in the Solomon Islands may have netted millions of<br \/>\ndollars by depositing old currency notes he was responsible for destroying<br \/>\ninto his own bank account. Philip Bobongi was to destroy old and dirty<br \/>\nbanknotes but instead had used them to fill his own accounts and accumulate<br \/>\nproperty and other assets.<\/p>\n<p>A huge crocodile responsible for the deaths of at least seven people has<br \/>\nbeen caught and put on display on the front of a car in a small Papua New<br \/>\nGuinea town.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Solomon Islands Police have warned they will be targeting the<br \/>\nillegal trade and drinking of kwaso as well as people going armed in public<br \/>\nwithout lawful cause.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh stepped up vigilance at its border with Myanmar after a fresh<br \/>\ninflux of Rohingya Muslims was reported.<\/p>\n<p>US-based Human Rights Watch called on Indonesia to look into the reported<br \/>\ntorture and abuse of prisoners in a jail in the province of Papua. Human<br \/>\nRights Watch singled out brutality by prison guards at the state jail in<br \/>\nAbepura, near the Papua capital of Jayapura.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare stated that people in Papua New Guinea<br \/>\nare not short of food or water. The President of the National Council of<br \/>\nWomen Scholla Kakas disagrees, saying Catholic Bishops, who work closely<br \/>\nwith the community have spoken of how people are actually dying from<br \/>\nstarvation. \u201cThis is spreading all over the country where there is urban<br \/>\ndrift from the rural villages into the urban areas into the towns of Papua<br \/>\nNew Guinea. And what is happening in Port Moresby is true; there are people<br \/>\ndying of poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some believe the containers hold the bodies of pro-democracy protesters<br \/>\nkilled by the army in 1992. Police have said that their divers will examine<br \/>\nthem. Rumours have suggested that the bodies were scattered by aircraft<br \/>\nover the jungle or buried at a remote army camp. According to the official<br \/>\ntally, 52 people died when troops opened fire on protesters in Bangkok<br \/>\nduring \u201cBlack May\u201d in 1992. But victims\u2019 groups say that 357 people are<br \/>\nstill missing.<\/p>\n<p>Although police were unable to determine how much had been stolen, the scam<br \/>\noccurred over three years and the total could amount to millions of<br \/>\ndollars. Police also seized cash from the home of Mr Bobongi, who has been<br \/>\ncharged with larceny, false pretences and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>The astonishing &#8216;trophy&#8217;, secured to the vehicle by ropes, was driven<br \/>\nthrough the town of Madang after it was caught by a team of local youths.<br \/>\nBut while the bizarre trip around the town, amid a carnival atmosphere, was<br \/>\nintended to put at ease locals who feared more attacks, the warning went<br \/>\nout that the croc&#8217;s mate was still at large.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner said Operation High Visibility will run again this<br \/>\nweekend. &#8220;This operation will feature traffic management, foot and mobile<br \/>\npatrols with a strong focus on black market outlets in Central Honiara,<br \/>\nPoint Cruz, the Ba&#8217;hai and White River areas. General duties officers and<br \/>\nsupporting personnel from other Police units will continue to routinely<br \/>\ntarget disorderly and criminal behaviour, drinking in public and illegal<br \/>\ntrading in kwaso.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rohingya refugees have presented problems for several other countries in<br \/>\nthe region in recent months, with reports of Thailand putting those who<br \/>\ncome by boat back to sea, and others reaching Malaysia and Indonesia and<br \/>\ntrying to work illegally. Local residents and media said about 1,000<br \/>\nRohingya Muslims entered Bangladesh in just the past three days, alleging<br \/>\nincreased persecution by Myanmar&#8217;s military junta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can the government turn a blind eye to beatings and torture in one of<br \/>\nits prisons? Jakarta needs to put an end to this disgraceful behavior,<br \/>\npunish those responsible and start keeping a close eye on what is happening<br \/>\nthere.\u201d Reports of more than two dozen cases of beatings and physical abuse<br \/>\nsince Anthonius Ayorbaba, became the prison warden.<\/p>\n<p>The government should send out officers to investigate people\u2019s living<br \/>\nconditions and confirm for themselves that people really are starving to<br \/>\ndeath. The land below high and low water mark are the beaches or<br \/>\nforeshores, reefs and seabed. \u201cThis area of land is significant because it<br \/>\nis where many developments like wharfs and tourist facilities are taking<br \/>\nplace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeventeen years on no significant progress has been made in searching for<br \/>\nthe people reported missing,\u201d The military government responsible was<br \/>\nforced to step down but the issue of the killings remains extremely<br \/>\nsensitive in Thailand because they were never fully investigated. \u201cThe<br \/>\nperson who ordered the mass killing has not been punished, nor have the<br \/>\nothers involved &#8230; who are still living a happy life, playing golf,<br \/>\nsipping wine and making comments to the media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The case was uncovered after central bank workers noticed that large<br \/>\nnumbers of old notes were still in circulation. Police are applying to the<br \/>\ncourts to freeze Mr Bobongi&#8217;s bank accounts and seize several vehicles and<br \/>\nproperties. Chinese nationals in Papua New Guinea have been subjected to<br \/>\nattacks and protests for a third straight day, leading police to use tear<br \/>\ngas against rioters.<\/p>\n<p>It is known that seven people have been killed by the 13ft captured croc<br \/>\nbut there are fears there were other victims who have vanished from their<br \/>\nvillages without trace. The latest victim was a 17-year-old girl who was<br \/>\ngrabbed by the crocodile from the banks of the Gum River. Her body was<br \/>\nnever found. Fearing that the attacks would continue unless the man-eater<br \/>\nwas captured, Madang businessman Samuel Aloi called together a group of<br \/>\nyouths whose families had learned the art of capturing crocodiles from<br \/>\nearlier generations.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers will also be checking people they suspect to have concealed<br \/>\nweapons and identifying if they are going armed in public without lawful<br \/>\ncause. &#8220;Under existing Statute Law, officers of the RSIPF already have the<br \/>\nright to confiscate weapons from people and seize on suspicion on unlawful<br \/>\nactivity, at any time. This is not a new power, our officers will simply be<br \/>\nreinforcing their focus on street crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They forced us from our homes and threatened to treat us even worse if we<br \/>\ngo back,&#8221; said Syed Alam, who crossed the Naf river on the border in a<br \/>\nsmall boat with five family members. &#8220;The eviction of Muslims in Rakhine<br \/>\nstate &#8230; increased in recent weeks after the (Myanmar) military started<br \/>\nclearing space to build an army garrison.&#8221; Rakhine borders Bangladesh&#8217;s<br \/>\nCox&#8217;s Bazar district. Alam said about 120 families were evicted from his<br \/>\nvillage, and more were being forced out. &#8220;I chose to leave my country as a<br \/>\nlast resort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The government should replace the prison administration, open the<br \/>\npenitentiary to international monitoring and set up an independent team to<br \/>\nprobe the reports of abuse in Abepura prison, which currently has about 230<br \/>\nprisoners, including more than a dozen incarcerated because of their<br \/>\npolitical activities. Human Rights Watch cited cases that included the<br \/>\nalleged beatings of prisoners for trivial offenses often with the offending<br \/>\nprison guards in a drunken stupor and sometimes leading to serious<br \/>\ninjuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEqually because of the significance of this area of land, it is one of the<br \/>\nmost contested lands among people. The law that applies to this area of<br \/>\nland is not clear. The ownership and other rights that the people and the<br \/>\nGovernment may have over this area of land is not clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Relatives presented a letter to the prime minister, who has promised to<br \/>\ninvestigate. \u201cWe ask that the government act quickly on this for the sake<br \/>\nof clarity, We don\u2019t hope for much apart from claiming the bones of our<br \/>\nrelatives.\u201d The fishermen have reportedly been making their grisly haul for<br \/>\nseveral years but were initially reluctant to report it for fear that<br \/>\norganised criminals were involved.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese-owned stores were ransacked in the capital Port Moresby and then in<br \/>\nPNG&#8217;s second largest city, Lae. Police intervened in another anti-Chinese<br \/>\nprotest in Port Moresby, using tear gas to disperse a riot in a popular<br \/>\nmarket directed at Chinese businesses. Chinese nationals and businesses in<br \/>\nPort Moresby have beefed up security, some hiring off-duty police as<br \/>\nguards, while many have shut their shops as advised by their embassy. The<br \/>\ntrouble in the capital began when an anti-Chinese march attended by 100<br \/>\npeople ended in violence and looting.<\/p>\n<p>The team of young men attached a large piece of lamb to a hook and hung it<br \/>\nabout 2ft above the surface of the river. Then they lay in wait. At 5am the<br \/>\ncrocodile suddenly leapt from the water to grab the meat\u00a0 &#8211; and was snared<br \/>\non the large hook. The youths hauled it to shore where they managed to kill<br \/>\nit, before it was tied to a four-wheel-drive vehicle. &#8220;We decided to put it<br \/>\non display to show everyone that this big crocodile which has killed so<br \/>\nmany people has finally been caught,&#8217; said Mr Aloi as he posed for<br \/>\nphotographs with the trophy. It&#8217;s a very unusual icon to have on the front<br \/>\nof my car, but I wanted the whole town to see it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Weapons are any item capable of causing injury to another person and<br \/>\ninclude any small knives, bush knives, clubs, firearms or explosive.<br \/>\nWrecking implements, screwdriver, iron bars, stones and timber qualify as a<br \/>\nweapon if misused on another.&#8221; The punishment for going armed in public &#8211; a<br \/>\nmisdemeanour offence &#8211; was up to the courts but generally fines or prison<br \/>\nterms up to 2 years can apply depending on the circumstances. Long jail<br \/>\nterms apply when serious assaults are proven by the courts.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladeshi officials said some of the Rohingyas stated they feared torture<br \/>\nas they supported the democracy movement of Aung San Suu Kyi, charged with<br \/>\nallegedly harbouring a U.S. citizen in her home while under house arrest.<br \/>\nBangladesh and Myanmar share a 320 km (200 mile) border, partly demarcated<br \/>\nby the Naf, with frontier guards on both sides keeping an eye on illegal<br \/>\nimmigration. Yet the flow of Myanmar refugees has been unabated. The army<br \/>\nhad pushed back nearly 300 new entrant Rohingyas recently, increasing<br \/>\nvigilance at the border to prevent the influx of Rohingyas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although the country has the 1995 Law on Rehabilitation, setting out<br \/>\nprocedures for prisoners to complain about mistreatment in prison, efforts<br \/>\nto lodge complaints so far have been fruitless and Ayorbaba has been<br \/>\nunwilling to address any abuse complaints. Prisoners and their relatives<br \/>\noften reported incidents of abuse by guards to the Ministry of Justice and<br \/>\nHuman Rights, but no action was ever taken. Prisoners say they have stopped<br \/>\nreporting abuses because they lack faith in the system and because they<br \/>\nfear retribution.<\/p>\n<p>Laws introduced and court decisions made before and after independence have<br \/>\nnot clarified the position. Neighbouring countries in the region have<br \/>\ndiverse laws relating to this area of land. In Samoa this area of land<br \/>\nbelongs to the Government. In Vanuatu this area of land is customary land.<br \/>\nIn some countries of the region like Fiji, Kiribati, Tuvalu and New Zealand<br \/>\nthis area of land belongs to the Government except where customary rights<br \/>\ncan be proved to have existed.<\/p>\n<p>Although there are about five containers on the sea bed, they may simply<br \/>\nhave fallen off a passing ship. \u201cWe have the same curiosity. Why doesn\u2019t<br \/>\nsomebody open up these containers and do away with this myth?\u201d\u00a0 The<br \/>\ndirector of the National Forensic Science Institute, has been ordered to<br \/>\ninvestigate but required official clearance before beginning her work.<\/p>\n<p>The Port Moresby police chief has been criticised for allowing the protest<br \/>\nto go ahead, blamed the violence on hooligans. &#8220;It was just hooligans<br \/>\ntaking advantage of the situation with an emotional build-up. There is<br \/>\nnothing to worry about, as we will continue our patrols and increase<br \/>\npresence on the streets.&#8221; In Lae, on the northwest coast, hundreds of men<br \/>\nattacked Chinese nationals and their small businesses across the city.<br \/>\nThere were unconfirmed reports of one death and serious injuries to several<br \/>\nlooters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re planning to operate on it to check for the remains of the young girl<br \/>\nwho was killed recently, but we&#8217;ll also be sending tissue samples to<br \/>\nAustralia for DNA testing in the hope of determining how many other people<br \/>\nit has eaten over the years.&#8217; Mr Aloi said that the crocodile had been seen<br \/>\nin various parts of the Madang waterfront in recent times but no-one had<br \/>\nbeen able to catch it. &#8216;This one&#8217;s a female and we know that the &#8220;husband&#8221;<br \/>\nis still at large. We&#8217;ve got a warning out to people to remain vigilant and<br \/>\nnot to rest on their laurels just because this one&#8217;s been caught.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police seek the public&#8217;s cooperation and understanding in these random<br \/>\nsearches for weapons and enquiries. We are trying to reduce the risk of<br \/>\ndrunken fights turning into fatalities. If someone has fair cause to be<br \/>\ncarrying a bush knife around town and are not intending harm to others,<br \/>\nthey have nothing to fear from police. If you are out to cause trouble,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s another matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Rohingyas might be trying to use the recent turmoil in Myanmar over Suu<br \/>\nKyi&#8217;s trial as a pretext to leave. More than 21,000 Rohingyas have been<br \/>\nliving in two Cox&#8217;s Bazar camps, run by the U.N. High Commissioner for<br \/>\nRefugees, since early 1992, when some 250,000 Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indonesian government needs to replace the Abepura prison management.<br \/>\nBut this is not just a failure of one prison warden. It\u2019s a failure of<br \/>\nJakarta to set proper standards and enforce them.\u201d Access to Papua has been<br \/>\nstrictly limited. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also ordered the<br \/>\nInternational Committee of the Red Cross to close its field office in<br \/>\nJayapura. The ICRC ran sanitation projects in Papua and also visited<br \/>\ndetainees, including political prisoners, in Abepura prison.<\/p>\n<p>The review will consider how the law could deal with the competing rights<br \/>\nof land owners and the public benefits that any sustainable development<br \/>\nwill bring to the people. The Commission encourages people, offices, and<br \/>\ninstitutions to make submissions or have their say on how the law should<br \/>\nchange to deal with this area of land.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s foreign aid program will focus on health, education and food<br \/>\nsecurity in the region to alleviate the &#8220;enormous human cost&#8221; of the global<br \/>\nfinancial crisis. The Government affirmed it would raise aid levels to 0.5<br \/>\nper cent of gross national income by 2015-16, though next year&#8217;s rise will<br \/>\nbe minuscule, from 0.33 to 0.34 per cent &#8211; amounting to spending of $3.8<br \/>\nbillion. These levels keep Australia in the bottom half of aid donors among<br \/>\ndeveloped countries and fall far short of a long-held promise to raise aid<br \/>\nto 0.7 per cent of GNI.<\/p>\n<p>Unnamed youths involved in the Lae attacks complained Asian small-business<br \/>\nowners were &#8220;ripping us off&#8221;. &#8220;Who is allowing these Asians to come into<br \/>\nour country and own small businesses which should be owned by Papua New<br \/>\nGuineans? They are ripping us off and investing their money in their<br \/>\ncountry.&#8221; Earlier in the week, PNG workers clashed with management at the<br \/>\nChinese-run Ramu nickel mine in Madang Province, on the northeast coast,<br \/>\nafter a tractor injured a worker. PNG&#8217;s Chinese community began with<br \/>\nimmigration in the late 19th century, but local resentment has grown as an<br \/>\ninflux of &#8220;new Chinese&#8221; have slowly taken over small businesses like trade<br \/>\nstores and food shops in the past 15 years. Many in PNG feel squeezed out<br \/>\nand complain about working for ruthless Chinese bosses who impose tough<br \/>\nconditions. Allegations of a rise in Chinese organised crime and corruption<br \/>\ninvolving PNG officials has also added to community anger. It is estimated<br \/>\nthe Chinese population in PNG now outnumbers Australians by more than two<br \/>\nto one.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have come up with a theory that attributes the historic<br \/>\nmigrations of the Polynesians from the Cook islands to New Zealand, Easter<br \/>\nIsland and Hawaii in the 11th to 15th centuries, to fish poisoning. Based<br \/>\non archeological evidence, paleoclimatic data and modern reports of<br \/>\nciguatera poisoning, some theorize that ciguatera outbreaks were linked to<br \/>\nclimate and that the consequent outbreaks prompted historical migrations of<br \/>\nPolynesians.<\/p>\n<p>Threatening violence, challenging another person to a fight, fighting in a<br \/>\npublic place, and going armed in public are all existing offences under the<br \/>\nPenal Code of the Solomon Islands. The Police officers would continue to<br \/>\nwork closely with government and community leaders to reduce kwaso-related<br \/>\ncrime in Honiara and other communities. &#8220;Recent stabbings at the weekend<br \/>\nare not an indication that crime is one the rise in the Solomon Islands.<br \/>\nStatistics on reported crime to the RSIPF actually show a significant drop,<br \/>\nwith crime down 20% across the Solomon Islands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Rohingyas allege persecution by the military in what was then Burma,<br \/>\nbut the UNHCR managed to send most of them back within a short time. The<br \/>\nrest refused to return and the U.N. agency says they cannot force anyone to<br \/>\ngo back against their will. Cox&#8217;s Bazar officials say more then 200,000<br \/>\nRohingyas live outside the camps, mixing with local Muslims who have an<br \/>\nalmost common language. Muslims are a minority in Myanmar, where most of<br \/>\nthe population is Buddhist.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch said that international monitors such as the ICRC and<br \/>\nindependent human rights groups should be able to visit prisoners in<br \/>\nAbepura to investigate reports of abuse. Papua has seen a low-level<br \/>\nseparatist movement since the 1960s but pro-independence sentiments have<br \/>\nbeen on the rise in the face of perceived injustice in the economy and<br \/>\nalleged abuses by security forces in their drive to rid the province of<br \/>\nseparatism. The UN special rapporteur for torture visited Indonesia and<br \/>\nfound that police used torture as a \u201croutine practice in Jakarta and other<br \/>\nmetropolitan areas of Java.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About 100 million people living on Australia&#8217;s doorstep could be forced to<br \/>\nleave their homeland due to climate change this century. Australia will<br \/>\nhave a key role in avoiding ecological and humanitarian disaster in what is<br \/>\ncalled the Coral Triangle &#8211; the marine area including Indonesia, Malaysia,<br \/>\nthe Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and East Timor.<br \/>\nFailure to take effective action on climate change will diminish the food<br \/>\nsupply drawn from the area&#8217;s coasts by up to 80 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The federal budget paper on aid, A Good International Citizen, said the<br \/>\neconomic slowdown would reverse a four-year reduction in the number of<br \/>\npeople living in extreme poverty. An extra 90 million people &#8211; including 62<br \/>\nmillion in Asia &#8211; are expected to live in extreme poverty this year.<br \/>\nCountries that will receive the largest aid allocations are Indonesia ($453<br \/>\nmillion), Papua New Guinea ($414 million) and the Solomon Islands ($246<br \/>\nmillion). The Pacific will surpass East Asia as the biggest regional<br \/>\nrecipient as the Rudd Government focuses on assisting the neighbourhood and<br \/>\npreventing an outbreak of failing island states.<\/p>\n<p>The Indigenous Resistance dub attitude can be, by turns, either a<br \/>\nburn-down-Babylon fiery dub or a self-reflexive, meditative dub. The label<br \/>\nreleases Bogota&#8217;s DJ Rodrigo&#8217;s new take on crucial tracks from the IR<br \/>\narchive in two formats; the full 48 minute head-tripping mix and as<br \/>\nindividual tracks-all available through iTunes and Believe digital of<br \/>\nFrance.<\/p>\n<p>Ciguatera poisoning is a food-borne disease that can come from eating<br \/>\nlarge, carnivorous reef fish, and causes vomiting, headaches, and a burning<br \/>\nsensation upon contact with cold surfaces. It is known that the historic<br \/>\npopulations of Cook Islanders was heavily reliant on fish as a source of<br \/>\nprotein, and the scientists suggest that once their fish resources became<br \/>\ninedible, voyaging became a necessity. Modern Cook Islanders, though<br \/>\nsurrounded by an ocean teeming with fish, don\u2019t eat fish as a regular part<br \/>\nof their diet but instead eat processed, imported foods. In the late 1990s,<br \/>\nlower-income families who could not afford processed foods emigrated to New<br \/>\nZealand and Australia. Past migrations had similar roots. The heightened<br \/>\nvoyaging from A.D. 1000 to 1450 in eastern Polynesia was likely prompted by<br \/>\nciguatera fish poisoning. There were few options but to leave once the<br \/>\nstaple diet of an island nation became poisonous. This approach brings us a<br \/>\nstep closer to solving the mysteries of ciguatera and the storied<br \/>\nPolynesian native migrations. It will lead to better forecasting and<br \/>\nplanning for ciguatera outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>Under the worst-case scenario the ecology of the region would be destroyed<br \/>\nby rises in ocean temperature, acidity and sea level. Poverty increases,<br \/>\nfood security plummets, economies suffer and coastal people migrate<br \/>\nincreasingly to urban areas. Tens of millions of people are forced to move<br \/>\nfrom rural and coastal settings due to loss of homes, food resources and<br \/>\nincome, putting pressure on regional cities and surrounding developed<br \/>\nnations such as Australia and New Zealand. Even under a best-case scenario,<br \/>\nthe region will lose coral and have to deal with higher seas, more frequent<br \/>\nstorms, droughts and less food from coastal fisheries. Large cuts in<br \/>\ngreenhouse emissions and international financial support for the region&#8217;s<br \/>\nenvironment are needed. It is in Australia&#8217;s interest to invest early to<br \/>\nhelp avoid the worst-case scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Woven throughout this new mix you will hear indigenous voices and chants<br \/>\ncollected by Indigenous Resistance from all over the world: the Malaitai<br \/>\nfrom Solomon Islands, the Krikati indians from Brasil, traditional Cree<br \/>\nchants from Turtle Island, traditional instruments from Sosolakam and<br \/>\nSolomon Islands embedded into tracks recorded in Jamaica, the U.K, Germany,<br \/>\nSolomon Islands, Sosolakam, Brasil, Colombia, Cuba &amp; Turtle Island. IR&#8217;s<br \/>\neclectic production techniques pulls together producers with different<br \/>\nstyles and methods to create their releases. This is especially evident on<br \/>\nthe full IR18 where DJ Rodrigo deftly maneuvers successfully through the<br \/>\nmany genres, which include: Drum N Bass, Jungle, Detroit Techno, Electro,<br \/>\nBig Beat, Dub, Reggae, House and the multi-ethnic stew (breakbeat, dub,<br \/>\ndancehall, ragga) of Dr Das and Asian Dub Foundation (which some pile<br \/>\ntogether into the term of World Beat) and the punk and hardcore sound of<br \/>\nknob-twirler extraordinaire, Ramjac. As a matter of course, IR travels the<br \/>\nglobe working with pockets of Indigenous Resistance in the Fourth World to<br \/>\nget their messages out from behind the propaganda machines that deny them<br \/>\nthe freedom of the press. Through free releases and downloads, and funded<br \/>\nby sales of albums through CD Baby, iTunes and Believe Digital, IR has set<br \/>\nup a campaign to send these tracks back into the indigenous communities as<br \/>\nwell as back out to the world to fall on sympathetic ears. IR utilizes any<br \/>\nmeans necessary to get the music and messages heard passed the restrictive<br \/>\nregimes that keep the indigenous down and disenfranchised.<\/p>\n<p>$464 million will be spent over the next four years on food security to<br \/>\nalleviate the impact of shortages, volatile prices, increased consumption,<br \/>\nclimate change and the use of crops to produce bio-fuels. Programs will<br \/>\nfocus on helping communities to improve their farming and fisheries<br \/>\nmanagement. The biggest boost is to education, which will receive $690<br \/>\nmillion this year and focus on improving participation rates and teaching<br \/>\nquality. The Government will also extend links between aid and the<br \/>\nperformance of partner countries.<\/p>\n<p>Four looters were shot as Papua New Guinean (PNG) police was on high alert<br \/>\nto clamp down on the Anti-Asia sentiment across the country. Since the<br \/>\nweekend, four men were shot as police tried to stop the ongoing violence<br \/>\ndirected at Asian-run stores in the Highlands region. One Southern<br \/>\nHighlands man was shot in Mount Hagen. Another Southern Highlander, who was<br \/>\nshot by police, could lose one of his legs after being smashed by a bullet.<br \/>\nPolice in Goroka shot a 20-year-old man who was also likely to lose a leg,<br \/>\nas police tried to control thousands of people that went on a rampage and<br \/>\nlooted several shops in the town. In Lae, one man was shot in the leg by<br \/>\npolice. Police in the Highlands have gone on full alert, keeping<br \/>\nsurveillance over Goroka, Mount Hagen, Kainantu and Wabag as hundreds of<br \/>\npeople converged in the region and broke into shops operated by families of<br \/>\nKorean and Chinese origins. Most Asian-run shops remained closed in the<br \/>\nHighlands with armed security guards. Meanwhile, trouble makers on streets<br \/>\nattempted to loot those shops again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Council of Women in Papua New Guinea says people of all ages are dying from starvation, despite the government\u2019s comments that nobody is lacking food or water. A haul of skulls and other body parts has been linked to five shipping containers on the sea bed off the southern Chon Buri province. 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