ALERTA! Democracia de primer ministro vende fuera de Papua Nueva Guinea, las poblaciones locales y recursos a la Agencia de minería de China Roja

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August 12, 2010 ALERT! Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sells Out Democracy, Local Peoples and Resources to Red China's Mining Agency

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Sir Michael Somare [search] - PNG's deeply corrupted PM, and once the great founder of this amazing country - is illegally clinging to power and giving away natural resources by gutting environmental law. PNG has Earth's third largest rainforests [search] and important intact fisheries which are being threatened by his efforts to run roughshod over landowners, including those trying to stop the dumping of mine waste into Madang's bays and lagoons. Given his increasingly despotic and unbalanced behavior, it is clearly time for Mr. Somare to resign.

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Posted by Dr. Glen Barry on August 12, 2010 11:14 AM

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When I was there as a member of our country's diplomatic mission 5 years ago, PNG's forest cover 90% of the archipelago's land mass.However, greedy multinational logging companies, as Rimbunan Hijao (RH), owned by a Malaysian Chinese, are already starting to corrupt PNG's bureaucracy by massive bribes. In effect, it is a formula for chaos in a highly ethnic and patriarchal PNG society. PM Somare, during his student days, advocates socialist ideologies, which was somehow lost or compromised in exchange for money and political success. He and other PNG bureaucrats have betrayed their own countrymen, languishing in deep poverty.

Posted by: Peachy Sarmiento | August 12, 2010 9:16 PM

Thought you might be interested in this.

Maybe Somare/Pundari has gone too far this time. The government agencies think so...

It certainly needs the spotlight of independent media shone on it.

regards
Charles

http://ramumine.wordpress.com/
Government pulls two lawyers for disobeying Chinese orders

The government has pulled two lawyers from the Solicitor Generals Office off the Ramu mine injunction case for refusing to follow orders from the Chinese mine owners.

The two lawyers, Waliyo Mapiso and Liais Paul Kandi, had been representing the Department of Conservation (DEC) but they were summarily removed and replaced by a junior lawyer after they insisted that it was their job to represent DEC to the best of their ability and that DECs interests (as a regulator) were not the same as those of the Chinese government and its mining company.

The issue came to a head when the two lawyers refused this week to bend to political pressure and remove paragraphs out of an affadavit that the Chinese did not want included. The two lawyers refused to remove the paragraphs and said the Chinese had no right to tell them, as Papua New Guineans representing a PNG government agency what should and should not be in an affadavit.

The junior lawyer who has replaced the two has now briefed Ian Malloy, an Australian barrister who up until now has representing the Chinese in the court case! Malloy is currently staying in an Executive Suite in Peter Barter?s Madang Resort.

It has been known for some weeks that Mapiso and Kandi were not happy with the Chinese bullying in the court case. The two were strong in their defense of DEC, as well as their criticism of Chinese in regards to trying to control the case. It was clear to most obsevers the two were going to be removed by Somare and his National Alliance government.

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Filed under Corruption, Environmental impact, Human rights, Mine construction, Papua New Guinea

Tags: Chinese mining, Landowners, Construction, Environmental damage, Submarine Tailings Disposal, PNG development, Human rights, Prime Minister, Attorney General, Michael Somare
August 13, 2010
Govt tells public servants ?give the Chinese whatever they want?

From a Special Correspondent

Public servants are being told by the National Alliance lead government to ?give the Chinese whatever they want? in respect of the Ramu nickel mine. This is causing much resentment amongst the public servants and those working for the Mineral Resource Authority (MRA).

New Mining Minister, John Pundari, has jumped straight into action to implement Prime Minister Somare?s instructions. Last week Pundari addressed the MRA with Minister Benny Allen and Madang Governor Arnold Amet present. Pundari literally screamed at those present demanding they were to ?give all co-operation to the Chinese and their lawyers and to give the Chinese whatever they want.?

In addition to upsetting officers who were already unhappy with being ?bullied by the Chinese? this behavior by Pundari trying his best to please the leaders of the National Alliance, is completely contrary to the purpose of why the MRA was set up. The Mineral Resource Authority was established to keep the mining regulatory body separate and independent of political interference!

Both MRA workers and those from the Department of Conservation (DEC) say they are ?sick and tired of being told what to do by the Chinese.?

One officer said ? it is bad enough being told to do whatever these people say, but the manner in which the Chinese just boss us around and the obvious lack of respect for us as people is making more and more of us angry. It can?t continue.?

The officers were speaking under the guarantee their names would not be used, although two said they were fed up and their names could be used. They later retracted that and requested anonymity. The two with a combined public service of 32 year said they have never seen anything like this (Chinese just taking over) before.

?There is no attempt by either the government or the Chinese to hide what is going on or who is in control,? They siad. ?Everyone in the public service is talking about it. To say PNG is an independent country at the moment is a joke ? and we all know it.?

One higher ranking official said, ?There is a resentment building, not just in the public service, but all across the country ? and why shouldn?t there be? The Chinese are furious with what is happening up in Madang. They have no idea of customary land tenure in PNG nor of the PNG legal system. All they are doing is DEMANDING that PNG ?get their nickel mine going?. They are issuing various threats ? including pulling the plug on several other projects if the Ramu Nickel issue is not ?taken care of quickly.?

Another official said ? the Chinese simply do not care about anything except their agenda. Any suggestion or any criticism is seen as being ?anti-Chinese?. There is simply no dialogue with them ? and this is partly because so few speak English, tok pisin or motu nor do they make any attmept.?

The PNG officials have said Pundari?s behavior has alienated the public service and caused the resentment already there to increase dramatically. Madang Govenor Arnold Amet was said to be unhappy with Pundari?s latest outburst at MRA, suggesting all parties need to be consulted and work toward a mutal agreement to move forward especially for the people. That bit of advice was simply glossed over as the Chinese pushed for ?THEIR MINE? to be continued as soon as possible and their apparent PNG puppets ? the National Alliance -running around to the tune of the Chinese.

Posted by: Charles | August 13, 2010 1:08 PM

Beautiful country and people, but terribly poor citizenship. Countries such as this are ripe of the picking by large foreign multi-nationals. Friends just returned from PNG and talked about how roads are being constructed throughout the wilderness which is great for the people, but bad for the countries' resources as this makes it easier to strip the country of it's benefit to the world at large. It's a shame the gov.'t is more interested in the corporate relationships than its own people. Pristine areas such as PNG must be conserved and balanced with the needs of its people. Eco-tourism would be a very dynamic industry in PNG.

Posted by: 55 gallon water barrel | August 13, 2010 10:49 PM

Hi - this is the first time I have found your website, and I'm very happy that I have! In 1991 I spent four wonderful months in Papua New Guinea, and have followed the country's progress with interest - and some considerable sadness - ever since. Even back then there were illegal logging camps, mainly Japanese and Korean (don't know if they were North or South), in remote areas, and guarded at gunpoint. I am a member of Green Light Trust which works in many countries promoting Global Kinship - the whole thing having begun with a visit to PNG by its founders. On a more esoteric level, I also belong to Fountain International, which works with healing for the planet, based on the belief that the power of thought can move mountains!I have always wanted to go back, specially to Karkar Island and Madang - but as I'm now 70, with dodgy hips and knees, and not much money, I doubt if that will ever happen. However, I continue to watch from afar. I'm grateful that I've found you - and even more grateful for the work you're doing. Here's strength to your elbow! Rowanna (Hastings, UK)

Posted by: Rowanna Web | August 15, 2010 12:56 PM

The Chinese are invading all over the places in the third world.Also here in het Caraibean area.They are here in Curacao very suspect for bribing in order to get permits etc.

Posted by: Marc | September 1, 2010 7:20 PM

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