Father killed, three raped in Australia home invasion

News.com.au ^ | February 23, 2004 | Jim Baynes

[Mulder]

ARMED criminals in Port Moresby have murdered a father who tried to prevent them from pack-raping his wife and daughters.

The home invasion took place early yesterday morning in one of the PNG capital's squatters' settlements, The National newspaper reported.

The murdered man's wife and two teenage daughters watched in horror as more than 10 bandits shot their father and chopped up his body with an axe.

The three women were then dragged outside and pack-raped.

The dead man's wife said the criminals then placed her husband's body in their bed and set fire to the house.

The wife received cuts to her face and head, while the daughters were admitted to hospital with more serious injuries.

A third daughter, who was hiding in the house, escaped unhurt.

The mother told reporters that at 4.30am the bandits started smashing the walls of their home with axes and machetes.

She said her husband tried to defend the women but the bandits shot him and cut him in the neck with an axe.

"They decided to kill my husband when he tried to prevent them from taking us," she told the newspaper.

"I refused to go outside, so I fell on the floor every time they tried to lift me. They cut me on the head and face until I could not stand the pain," she said.

The wife believed she and her daughters would also have been murdered if not for a motorist who stopped after seeing the house ablaze.

She said the bandits mistook the motorist for the police and fled.

One of the attackers had been living with the family for the past four years, she said.

A neighbour said the criminals had first attacked his house, but he had slipped his family to safety through a trapdoor.

[Liberty Ship]

PNG is, like Australia, a British protectorate and its gun control laws are, by design, a mirror image of those in Australia. For all intents and purposes, PNG is Australia.

[ovrtaxt]

They should have shot the creep!

What..? They passed a law that...

When?

Oh, never mind.

[gdc314]

From the CIA fact book:

Ethnic groups: Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian Religions: Roman Catholic 22%, Lutheran 16%, Presbyterian/Methodist/London Missionary Society 8%, Anglican 5%, Evangelical Alliance 4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1%, other Protestant 10%, indigenous beliefs (WTF?) 34%

Wonder who the bandits are?

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Go to the Washington hometown page on AR15.com and check out the pix from our shoot this weekend. Although I wasn't able to attend I heard they had about 40 people show this time. The sun came out and the shooters did as well.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This is what Hitlery, Rosie O'Donut, and Susan Sarandon want for your family.

[Mulder]

Sh!+ I just noticed this was PNG not Australia. I almost make it a full day without a mistake

Well.... that was my fault for screwing up the title

[avenir]

This same story was posted several weeks ago. Am I missing something (because it has a 2/23/04 date)?

[Mulder]

I screwed up the title....

Can you change "Australia" to "Port Moresby"? Thanks!

[null and void]

But I must admit that it was the first throught that crossed my mind while reading this article.

Yeah. I guess that makes us bad people.

[Mulder]

Go to the Washington hometown page on AR15.com and check out the pix from our shoot this weekend. Although I wasn't able to attend I heard they had about 40 people show this time. The sun came out and the shooters did as well.

I've gone to a couple of the shoots here in Florida, and had a great time. They have them every month here.

Unfortunately, it's almost a 3 hour drive for me, so I don't get to go as often as I'd like.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

And are often better treated than the victims whose lives they try to ruin.

They're treated better 99.99999% of the time, unless they're actually executed. Even then, they live at the Hilton until execution day.

The criminal faces a life of watching cable TV, being brought 3 meals a day via room service, and their drug of choice (coke, meth, or heroin) is readily available. They live better than they did on the outside while the family never gets their normal life back.

[Liberty Ship]

This story came out in November and made the news because it sparked a cry to let people own guns:

Port Moresby shocked by horrific home invasion

November 11, 2003

A horrific attack on a family in Port Moresby has prompted calls for Papua New Guineans to be granted the right to arm themselves against murderers and rapists.

In an incident that shocked a city accustomed to a high level of violence, 10 drunken bandits last week attacked a family home, murdering a man who tried to protect his wife and two daughters, aged nine and 13.

The woman and her daughters were forced to watch as their father was shot and chopped up with an axe.

The three were then dragged outside and pack-raped.

The wife said the criminals then placed her husband's body in their bed and set fire to the house.

While police have charged seven men with murder, rape, abduction and arson in relation to the attack, the alleged ringleaders remain at large.

PNG is expected next month to sign off on an Australian plan to deploy at least 200 police officers to combat crime.

Prominent PNG commentator Frank Kolma yesterday called on authorities to grant citizens the right to bear arms, and to implement a permanent curfew in lawless Port Moresby.

Mr Kolma said PNG's law enforcement agencies "do not have the capacity, resources or brainpower to bring criminals to justice".

"And do you think anything will come of this latest incident?" he asked in his column in The National newspaper.

"If past performance is anything to go by - absolutely nothing. We will wait, as always, for the day when a politician or a businessman or an expatriate family is attacked in a similar fashion before action is instituted."

He said citizens should be allowed to use firearms to protect themselves.

"It would be best, under the prevailing circumstances, to allow the citizen to arm himself and take his chances than to leave his life, family and property in the hands of an inept state and its agents," he said.

PNG has similar gun laws to Australia, whereby permits are issued only for specific purposes such as hunting and, in a few cases, protection.

The issue of new gun licences was suspended two years ago, sparking a lucrative market in the transfer of existing licenses which at more than $5000, are out of reach for the average citizen.

Mr Kolma said there was little to deter criminals in Port Moresby.

"Crime has become a profitable and even attractive venture. You do not have to work for it, just steal it. If you want sex, go out and rape. If somebody is successful, bring him down - permanently.

"This is fast becoming the way of life in Papua New Guinea."

The attack, in the squatters' settlement of Tete, was one of numerous murders and rapes reported each year in Port Moresby's sprawling outlying suburb of Gerehu.

While many Gerehu residents wrap their homes in barbed-wire and steel mesh, often the best protection is for residents to band together with fellow tribesmen.

However, this has also led to incidents of broader, more dangerous ethnic violence in the settlements.

AAP



This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/10/1068329488146.html

[Liberty Ship]

Wow! talk about spin! The November article was all about gun control and the evils thereto attached and the January article does not mention it at all!!!!!

[txzman]

Uh, NO, PNG is not for all intents "Australia".

New Guinea still has tribes living under stone-age belief systems. Your comment is unlearned at the very best.

[umgud]

10 perps? All the more reason to remove this silly notion that 10 round mags are more than enough.

[John H K]

indigenous beliefs (WTF?) 34%

What's the WTF for? Indigenous beliefs are whatever the natives believed for thousands of years before Europeans showed up.

[Mulder]

This story came out in November and made the news because it sparked a cry to let people own guns

Thanks.... I saw the article on another website, and assumed it was recent.

[raloxk]

THIS IS NOT AUSTRALIA, THIS OCCURRED IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA


IT IS VERY VERY DISHONEST TO PUT IN THE HEADLINE THAT THIS OCCURRED IN OZ.

Being dishonest in your defense of the 2nd amendment will only discredit you.

[raloxk]

"For all intents and purposes, PNG is Australia."


Are you mental???????

I use to live in Sydney and I can tell you they arent the same.

[Liberty Ship]

"Uh, NO, PNG is not for all intents "Australia".

"New Guinea still has tribes living under stone-age belief systems. Your comment is unlearned at the very best."


Forgive me. Excuse me. I beg your pardon. Perhaps I should have said "for all intents, for the purpose of this discussion." PNG's gun laws are in step with Australia's, as the article I posted states.

And I did have a recollection that they worship Prince Charles. The CIA fact book still lists Queen Elizabeth as their head of state. However, it does say that it gained independence from Australia in 1975, for what that's worth given the fact that they still report to London apparently. My guess is that the PNG's gun laws sprouted from the same mother as did those in Canada and Australia.