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...Papua New Guinea's Independence Day last year, Australian photojournalist Paul Blackmore turned up for the official celebrations at a Port Moresby stadium to find a scene not of triumph but of tragedy. An army battalion marched on an oval of withered grass before a virtually empty grandstand - and those in attendance seemed imprisoned by the stadium's machine-gun-wielding guards. "The whole thing was so bedraggled," Blackmore recalls...
...also taken its intelligence-based approach abroad, helping police in other countries boost their skills, combat transnational crime, and keep the peace in trouble spots. Its sleuths may not be as visible as their high-profile boss, but they're out there: from Bogot? to Riyadh to Papua New Guinea, keeping an ear to the local bush telegraph and building high-tech information networks that span the globe. "The A.F.P. has demonstrated its capacity to serve the government of the day, the community and indeed the regional community," Keelty tells Time. "The work we are doing in the region will...
...light rain drizzled onto more than a thousand people, Musingku held up a crown of shells and placed it upon the head of Ona, the new King of Mekamui. In turn, Musingku - alleged to have defrauded thousands of Papua New Guineans of their savings in a disastrous pyramid scheme - was crowned Prince of Papala, with special responsibility for managing the government's finances...
...middle of May, a procession of Papua New Guineans, accompanied by a lone white man, was waved through on their way to a ceremony remarkable even in a land used to strange and ancient rites. Near the village of Guava, high in the mountains of central Bougainville, they gathered on a plateau. After a procession of traditional dancers swaying to the music of pan pipes, marching militia and strutting chiefs, two men mounted a stage in the center of the clearing. Bare-chested, in a floral head-dress, grass skirt and neatly cleaned tan boots was Francis Ona, leader...
Ashwini Vasanthakumar ’04 lived in Sri Lanka, Zambia, and Papua New Guinea before her family settled in Canada and she came to Harvard. Now, she’s on her way to England...