AUSAID AND FSVAC WORK TOGETHER

Post Courier 21 June 2011

Village court officials and trauma counsellors need urgent and specific training and recognising sex education in schools were among several very vital issues discussed by the Family Sexual Violence Action Committee (FSVAC) and AusAID in Port Moresby last week.

A new approach to gender based violence is the introduction of male advocates or champions introduced into all provinces but needs to be re-drawn. In Kokopo, this group is called the style mangis. In other centres, they are known as men against violence.

Comment:

If reduction in gender violence is to be achieved in the long term, the only effective strategy is to tell the men. The overseas women's groups want to
tell only the women so as to promote violent confrontation between men and women.

TRUE CARE DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE

In the Sunday Chronicle, Dame Carol has repeated her stand that the rights of sex workers and transgender people are being blocked by colonial laws. This necessitates a new law to legalize prostitution and same sex relations.

In her last statement, Dame Carol seemed to be saying that discrimination exists at the level of family, police and hospitals for rape victims and sex workers.

Therefore legislation has to be made to overbalance the ineffectiveness of the HIV/AIDS Management and Protection (HAMP) Act.

The problem with the HAMP Act is that it discriminates too much against the employer in Government and business.

It has been drafted to give full rights and no responsibilities to workers with HIV/AIDS and full responsibilities and no rights to business.

No mention is made of the responsibility of an HIV infected worker to give a good days work for a good days pay and be respectfully downgraded once unable to work.

A worker can use confidentiality as a weapon.

The HAMP Act leaves room for abuse by HIV-infected workers. It could be used against managers who want to know why the worker has come to the office only once in the last month. There is a wall of silence in Government and business on the effectiveness of HAMP.

We need never forget that Government and business are not to blame for the positive status of the individual worker.

Dame Carol seems to think that discrimination in families may be addressed by legislation. It can only be addressed by love.

Families may well be the victims in a relationship with a loved one with HIV/AIDS. There can be emotional instability, violence, hatred, paranoia, boozing, marijuana and danger to other family members.

Like the employers in Government and business under HAMP, the family can have all responsibilities and no rights. Some family members with HIV status can play tricks.

It is they who have rejected family. But to work for AusAID or the UN, they have to say that the family has rejected them.

If they do not say that, they will not get a job. Discrimination of family is all part of the ANTI-FAMILY strategy.

Dame Carol wants legislation to force the police to take seriously any complaints from transgender people and sex workers and women who have been raped. Gays and lesbians are not mentioned. It comes down more to having trained police in the right positions to handle such cases.

Last year, AIDS Holistics cared for a young woman who was in a broken marriage and being bashed by her boy friend who was a policeman. We gained much support from the police sexual violence unit and the police internal investigation unit. She is now reunited with her husband.

We read in the media of rapes of young girls that are handled by the police with arrests made. The secret is for the young person to complain in the company of family and with support of a doctor’s certificate.

Dame Carol really has to know that gender gay-lesbian-transgender are not significant factors in the reputable care organizations. She is talking outside her field.

Try Marie Stopes, Provincial AIDS Committees, Anglicare, AIDS Holistics, Simon of Cyrene, St Mary’s private hospital, Department for Community Development and the now defunct 3 Angels Care.

Legislation for decriminalization of gay and lesbian relations and sex workers is overkill. How many such people have ever been arrested?

But it will usher in a new era of the good life for expatriate gays and lesbians who will crowd their way to Papua New Guinea to take advantage of sexual pleasures of PNG boys and girls. Then it will be same sex marriage and adoption of children.

CULT ACTIVITY IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA SCHOOLS

The National 21 June 2011 P.14

Parents of students attending George Brown High School in East New Britain are relieved after witnessing cult materials destroyed in a bonfire at the school.

It followed the suspension of students last month for being involved in such practices.

The George Brown High School in Gazelle District was known as a disciplined school until recently when parents learned that senior students were involved in cult activities.

It is believed the cult practices started in 2003 as part of a cult network in schools in East New Britain.

The cult material included a long thick coat, a black vest, a carved wooded frame containing chants and satanic figures, a bunch of keys known as “60 keys of darkness”, two one metre white cloths with a snake pledge and a triangular prayer contrary to the Lord’s Prayer.

The white cloths had the names of students printed on them from all schools in the province and divided into six tribes of darkness.

Many students accepted generation names without knowing that it was part of the cult network until they were told on Sunday.

Many grade 10 students were dealt with last month by having their boarder privileges disqualified, forcing them to be day students.

The question does arise as to whether or not the cults will continue out of the school grounds or go on long into the adulthood of the students. Are student cults to become a secret political force long after school is finished?

WHO IS TO BLAME FOR PASSAM BURNING?

Who is responsible for the burning of Passam High School? If there have been
United Nations or AusAID advisors going to high schools to indoctrinate the
students on RIGHTS without RESPONSIBILITIES, then they are directly
responsible.

Students have the right to gain good grades. You have no right to be suspended.
Teachers have no right to suspend you.

There have been thousands of books given out to libraries by AusAID and the
UN. We read that Moslem nations ban such free books as these are thought to
be the books of Satan.  But not the soft target Christian nations. Are the books
going to PNG schools promoting subversive messages?

Do these books promote gay / lesbian rights? And the right to defy authority
of police, parents and teachers?

PASSAM HIGH BURNED BY GRADE 12 STUDENTS

Reports in the PNG newspaper advise that Passam High school in Wewak is to be closed indefinitely.

A group of high school boys armed with sling shots burned the administration building and destroyed all student files and test results. They tried to burn down the girl's dormitory.

There were 30 boys, 10 who had been disciplined and suspended from school. Now they have destroyed the right to study of a whole school.

Let them graduate from Grade 12 to gaol. And the Australian advisors think they are doing a great job to talk about rights without responsibilities.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS SUPPORT FAMILY

I was very pleased to find that the Seventh Day Adventist Church plans another family crusade in this country during this year. We are very proud to regard the SDA church as friends.

The crusade last year was mind-boggling. Conducted in Jack Pidik Park over 2 weeks, the campaign brought together the widest possible range of expertise to cover all possible aspects of loving family life.

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The SDA church has long accepted part-ownership of the family message. Their home study booklets for family regularly have the family issue for study and discussion.

Most memorable at the crusade last year was the family of 8 children who came up on the stage with their parents to explain their responsibilities within their family.

The oldest boy of about 17 years had various duties in looking after his brothers and sisters. So too his 14 year old sister.

The youngest child helped the washing of dishes and bringing the clothes in from the line. Good husbands and wives in the making here.

There was no mention of RIGHTS only RESPONSIBILITIES. They did not have to talk of these things. Loving families have rights. That goes without saying.

The crusade was conducted in conjunction with the Department for Community Development, two major rocks in the support of family.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: NOT THE SOCIETY I KNEW

I feel a stranger in this land. This is not the country of thirty years ago. The rule of law is crumbling to be replaced by overriding greed.

The cult of the clan and individual now dominates often with just one consideration to steal whatever money comes their way.

People can kill for little or no reason at all. The police can not stop the carnage as many of them are drunk and involved. We dare not give the police more power.

In parts of PNG, the police are outgunned and lack transport. Fear of police authority has given way to the power of automatic weapons.

Violence is endemic from the official levels down. Many of us have seen the NCDC thugs patrolling the streets and harassing ordinary citizens. They carry long wooden or iron sticks with which to dispense violence.

Mob rule is taking over from the rule of law. We see this in villages and in schools where male students have formed mobs to fight students in other schools.

Authority of teachers has dropped. Killings in villages are being copied in schools and colleges. Boys will start to graduate from schools to gaols. That is not what is supposed to happen.

At the bottom of it all is the boom conditions of LNG and the corruption of the DSIP slush fund of some K19 million given out annually to politicians.

Villages are starting to know that the only way to get access is to have their own politician elected. Otherwise they are likely to get nothing. So the wantok slush fund will be worth killing for and intimidating voters and candidates at election time.

The slush fund is being used primarily for the needs of wantoks in the towns and villages. Why build a bridge and road into that area? They are our traditional enemies. Besides they did not vote for me.

Schools are being closed by landowners demanding payment for the land on which the school was built. There seems to be no understanding that the children from the landowner villages are among those who have attended that school for over half a century.

In the media, there seems to be little good news and mainly focus on grand theft and murder. We read of killings page after page followed by millions of kina in a fund somewhere that has just disappeared.

With the decline in the health system, the incidence of sorcery killings is rising. This has to have a negative effect on village health awareness.

There is the implied belief that people can live forever to have their lives cut short, not by HIV/AIDS, not by malaria, not by tuberculosis but by sorcery. Someone has to die to take the blame for the villager who died.

There was an expatriate woman who recently came to PNG with the ideological bias that sorcery killings are gender based and focused on women.

She did not understand so much about sorcery, particularly in the distribution of women and men between matrilineal and patrilineal areas. It is not about just killing women. Villagers know more about who is involved in sorcery than they are prepared to admit.

There is no fairness in killings. A person may be attacked and defend himself. It does not mean that the attackers will retire and go on with their lives.

They still have to come back in greater numbers to kill the victim. Recently a man was killed in an argument about a hand of bananas. A retired Supreme Court judge now writes a column in the media advising that in a killing all involved can be charged.

And on top of all this, Papua New Guinea has to contend with overseas advisors who come to these shores at great expense to spread the gospel that people have rights, rights and more rights. They have no responsibilities.

How many school children believe in rights and no responsibilities? This message is destroying the authority of parents and teachers.