{"id":190416,"date":"2018-11-20T05:15:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=190416"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:15:21","slug":"police-storm-papua-new-guinea-parliament-for-apec-summit-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/20\/police-storm-papua-new-guinea-parliament-for-apec-summit-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Police storm Papua New Guinea Parliament for APEC summit pay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: BREAKING NEWS Arm Security forces storm parliament over outstanding allowance (Photo<\/a>: Bryan Kramer\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea \u2014 Disgruntled police and prison guards stormed Papua New Guinea’s Parliament on Tuesday in a pay dispute that stemmed from an international summit hosted by the South Pacific island nation over the weekend, a lawmaker said.<\/p>\n

Images posted by opposition lawmaker Bryan Kramer on social media showed broken windows, smashed furniture, framed pictures torn from corridor walls and plants tipped over.<\/p>\n

Kramer said the protesters had not been paid allowances for their security work at a Pacific Rim leaders’ summit held in Port Moresby. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting was attended by U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and others.<\/p>\n

Following the rampage, about 100 police and guards waited outside Parliament demanding to be addressed by the government about their allowances, Kramer said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation here is quite tense,\u201d Kramer said from Parliament on social media. \u201cNumerous staff of parliament were assaulted during this confrontation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Working police later provided security for parliamentary staff in the building and patrolled surrounding streets.<\/p>\n

Neither Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s office nor Police Chief Superintendent Dominic Kakas immediately responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Kramer also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Papua New Guinea is a largely undeveloped Pacific nation of more than 8 million mostly subsistence farmers with widespread poverty, corruption and lawlessness.<\/p>\n

The annual APEC summit brought together representatives of 21 nations that account for 60 per cent of the world economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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