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Article: House of cards: why there's more than meets the eye to the dramatic events and the surrounding of Parliament that led to the expulsion of mercenaries from Papua New Guinea.
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- New Internationalist
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- June 1, 1997
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Why there's more than meets the eye to the dramatic events and the surrounding of Parliament that led to the expulsion of mercenaries from Papua New Guinea in March.
PEOPLE'S VICTORIES HAPPEN more often than we might think -- they're ignored or misrepresented by the international media. The coverage of recent events in Papua New Guinea is a case in point. International newspapers and magazines lead many to believe that what took place was a military coup; television showed people looting Asian-owned business houses, bringing to mind recent anti-Chinese rioting in neighbouring Indonesia.
What actually occurred during the final weeks of March, and led to ...