The Fairfax media group assigned JO CHANDLER to cover the political crisis in PNG. In this article Jo puts the attempted coup into context
WITH PAPUA NEW GUINEA's five-yearly general election just four months away, outsiders could be excused for being baffled by the desperate, damaging battle for power now consuming Port Moresby.
Why bother, given that the people - not the courts or the politicians - will soon resolve the Constitutional conundrum of who has the legitimate mandate to govern?
The answer was graphically illustrated in events engineered by the rival political supremos yesterday.
Read the full article here: http://www.smh.com.au/world/big-men-of-png-begin-political-posturing-20120130-1qpqu.html#ixzz1kz1My0cN
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