Pacific conflict: Associate Professor Tarcisius Kabutaulaka, of the University of Hawai'i, and others speak about conflict and transition.
How can
conflict-affected countries break cycles of violence, low trust or weak
institutions? A Praxis panel seminar series.
OPINION by Ellena Savage of Eureka Street
THE PNG Solution is in breach of international law. It doesn't serve the best interest of the asylum seekers it will affect.
And Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship is taking grossly insufficient responsibility for the safety and security of its detainees on Manus Island.
But the PNG Solution is just another in a long line of "border control" solutions which are in breach of legality and morality. There is nothing new about it.
Much has been made of PNG's poverty and gender-based violence, but even more disturbing is its military and police human rights record.
Evidence of abuses in the form of a military blockade, massacres, rape and torture during the Bougainville Crisis, the civil war that spanned the 1990s, are well-documented.
