Papua New Guinea Post-Courier

Type: daily newspaper
Country: Papua New Guinea
Orientation: mainstream/commercial
Published in: Port Moresby
Years active: 1969–
Language: English
Description: Daily newspaper of Papua New Guinea.
Also written as: Papua New Guinea Post-Courier

1978 – 1978

2 items

GA-00267 1978-01-19 Papua New Guinea Post-Courier rel B

After 12 Years Freedom (Post-Courier, 19 Jan 1978)

After 12 Years Freedom (Post-Courier, 19 January 1978)

Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 19 January 1978, p. 5, feature by George Oliver on the release of 10,000 political prisoners held since the 1965 coup, with PKI members forced to swear loyalty. It describes the Category A, B, C system, the 1965-66 massacres (estimates up to half a million killed), Amnesty International's

GA-00268 1978-01-19 Papua New Guinea Post-Courier rel B

After 12 Years Freedom (Post-Courier, 19 Jan 1978)

After 12 Years Freedom (Post-Courier, 19 January 1978), clean OCR

Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 19 January 1978, p. 5, clean OCR of George Oliver's feature on the release of 10,000 political prisoners held since the 1965 coup (same article as GA-00267). It covers the official and alternative accounts of 30 September, killings of perhaps half a million, half to three-quarters of a mi