Émeutes meurtrières en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée

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Une manifestation de fonctionnaires protestant contre des réductions de salaire a donné lieu à des actes de violence mercredi en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 A protest by protestant officials against salary cuts has led to violent acts on Wednesday in Papua New Guinea.

00:07 Prime Minister James Marab has committed to fight anarchy following the deaths of 15 people in the two main cities of the country.

00:14 At least 15 people have died in the violent riots that broke out in the two main cities of Papua New Guinea, the police said on Thursday, January 11.

00:23 Eight people have died in Port Moresby, the capital, and seven others in the E, the largest city in the country, said the Royal Papua New Guinea police commissioner, David Manigne.

00:34 The main hospital in Port Moresby treated 25 people injured by bullets, as well as six others showing lacerations caused by machetes.

00:43 Violence broke out in the capital of Port Moresby on Wednesday after a group of soldiers, police officers and prison guards protested against the government.

00:53 Angry crowds

00:55 Angry crowds set fire to buildings and ransacked shops during a night of chaos that quickly spread a few hundred kilometers north to the city of Lae.

01:04 Prime Minister James Marab apologized to the country, stating that the explosions of the anarchists would not be tolerated.

01:11 "It's your country as much as mine."

01:13 Breaking the law does not allow certain objectives, he said at a press conference.

01:19 Videos shot in the capital by the France Press agency (AFP) showed pillboxes rushing into shops through broken windows,

01:27 putting stolen goods in boxes, supermarket trucks and plastic buckets.

01:32 Buildings and cars were set on fire, according to images from the AFP, lifting black smoke bombs flying over the most affected neighborhoods in the city.

01:41 A little earlier, a smaller crowd had gathered in front of the Prime Minister's office in Port Moresby,

01:47 tearing down a security barrier and setting fire to a police car in the parking lot.

01:51 Beijing filed a complaint with the Papua New Guinea government following information that the rioters would have taken as targets for Chinese-owned companies.

02:00 The Chinese embassy in Papua New Guinea said in a statement that "a number of Chinese stores have been looted."

02:07 No Chinese resuscitation deaths have been reported so far, but several have been slightly injured, it added.

02:15 On the other hand, the US embassy in Port Moresby set fire to its home as the police tried to disperse the pillbox groups.

02:24 Mao Lavei, a resident of Port Moresby who teaches economics at the University of Papua New Guinea,

02:30 said that peace had been "largely restored" on Thursday evening.

02:34 "They chased the pillboxes, they prevented the buildings from burning," he said, adding to the AFP.

02:40 The governor of the region surrounding the capital, Paul Parkop, estimated that the riots represented a "previous level of conflict" in Port Moresby,

02:48 while the Post Courier, a local newspaper, spoke of "the darkest day in the city."

02:53 "What is most important is that we must end this conflict," said Paul Parkop on a local radio station on Wednesday evening,

03:01 stressing that "no one will get out of this kind of civil unrest."

03:05 A country in the throes of poverty.

03:07 Security forces organized a demonstration inside the Papua New Guinea parliament after seeing an inexplicable drop in their salaries.

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