BY JAMES PHELPS
PLAYERS FROM the Australian Prime Minister's XIII rugby league side have recalled their horror at watching a man being beaten by their security detail while they were in Papua New Guinea last week.
Some of the NRL's biggest stars were involved in a bus crash before their match against the Kumuls which ended with the driver of the offending vehicle being beaten with a baton.
In sickening scenes that forced some players to throw up, local security employed to ensure their safety leapt from their bus screaming "kill him" after the utility carrying several workers crashed into their mini-van.
"It was pretty full on," said Bulldogs star Ben Barba.
"The car hit the first bus and it was just crazy after that. There was a lot of blood and it was very scary. Thankfully we were kept safe and it didn't get to us."
Another player revealed players were screaming for the local security guard to stop beating the driver of the utility who caused the crash.
"We were on the way to training and this ute carrying a heap of workers hit us head on," said the players.
"The passenger’s head went through the window and there was blood everywhere. Then the security guard jump out and chased the driver down and started laying into him with a baton."
Locked in the bus, secured with wire caging, some were so sickened by the violence that it made them physically ill. "It was gruesome," said the player.
"Some starting dry wretching, spewing. There was just blood and mess everywhere. The Australian aid bloke had to get out and stop it."
The players also feared for the safety playing the Kumuls at the Lae Stadium in PNG with gun-fire ringing in the distance. They were also pelted with rock and coconuts.
Australia won the match 36-22.
"Hopefully we did some good while we were there," said Barba.
Source: The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 30 September
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/rep-stars-witness-gruesome-beating/story-e6frfgbo-1226152044367
Here is an article found in todays paper about violence agaist women; something the Aussie PM's 13 set out to do something about in PNG.
Madang is not far from Lae, where the game was played. On Monday, at 7pm, a girl was dragged out of a bus, which refused to drop her off at her home, and she was attacked and pack raped. Good, briliant way to go in helping our women. PNGeans do stupid things that spoil the name of our country.
If I were PM, they'd face a firing squard. In my opinion, rapists and such hooligans do not have a place in society. They are dogs who just want to get whatever they want. They are obstacles to development, it's time to deal with them.
Read this: Source - The National - Friday, September 30
A TEENAGE girl was attacked and raped at the Nakada junction area located about half an hour drive from Madang town.
The incident occurred around 7pm on Monday.
The victim (named) has been identified to be from Chimbu.
According to eye witnesses, the girl had boarded a PMV bus route 6B at a service station in town around 6.30pm.
The eyewitness, who sought assistance from the police to rescue the teenager said the bus driver refused to drop the teenager at her home.
She was later attacked by three men who punched her in the face before dragging her into the bushes and sexually assaulting her.
Posted by: Gelab Job Zigu Piak | 30 September 2011 at 02:53 PM