University of Papua New Ginea students still not back in class Featured
16 June, 2016. A student leader at the University of Papua New Guinea says students have chosen not to attend classes today out of respect for those hurt by police during last week's unrest.
More than 20 people were injured, four of them seriously, after police opened fire on the protesting students as they tried to leave the campus.
The student leader Henry Norrie-Maim said students are free to resume classes but today they have all chosen to stay away.
"The lecture rooms are open for us to go to school and also the staff are on campus, but it's the students themselves that due to our traditions and customs as embedded in our constitution, most of us don't want to go to classes while our friends that took bullets are suffering in the hospital and recovering."
"We are not intimidated or anything, it's just that out of respect and concern we are not attending classes. But we sure can attend classes on our own free will," he said.
Henry Norrie-Maim said some students have observed a customary mourning ritual by covering themselves in mud and parading around the campus.
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Kuo osi fakamahino mai ia heikai lavamai ha tokoni ia pea oku tonu pe ia ke pehee he ku lahi ange fiekaia ia moe masiva i Papua. Koe laka tonu ena ia a e Tamaiki Ako ke fkfepakii e PM he ku feinga ia ke tauhi ene palomesi fakapolitikale kae tuenoa e mea totonu ia ke fai. Sai kimoutolu Tamaiki oku iai homou kete koe mamahi pea fakaha ki mamani oku iai e pango oku hoko. Ko sii tuunga maatua he Potungaue kotoa a e Puleanga Tonga oku nau taefiemalie lahi kihe tataki a Akilisi moene Kapineti ka oku nau kukuta pe. Kuo mei paaloto ha taha tautautefito kihe Potungaue Ako pea nau toki lea ee
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Koe palopalema fkloto Fonua pe 'eni I PNG he va 'oe Tamaiki ako univesiti moe PM .O Neill. Koe mahu'inga ki Tonga ni, na'a UESIA 'ae Tala'ofa 'ae Pule'anga PNG 'e TOKONI kihe Sth Pacific Games 2019. Tau fkamu kotoa pe 'e kei tu'u la hook ai pe 'ae fu'u tokoni 'ae Pule'anga PNG kihe TEU Langa 'oe Sipoti 2019 I Tonga ni.
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Taimi totonu 'eni ke me'a atu ai e PM ki PNG 'o fakahoko 'ene polokalama fakamelino mo tokoni kia O'Neill, hange ko 'ene fo'i 'eva ki UK ke poupou ki West Papua. Kou tui 'e fiema'u lahi 'e 'O Neill 'ene tokoni, pea ke toe fakapapau'i ai pe ki PNG 'oku tau kei tali atu ki he 'enau tokoni $30 miliona. Taimi tatau kou toe pehee na'a sai pe aa ke nofo na'a 'omi 'ehe fanauako hano ha'unga fakafonua koe "vali pelepela'i"