The 10 Days That Shook Papua New Guinea

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  • Опубліковано 28 лип 2022
  • With The Army (1997): A report following the dramatic events of the Sandline affair, which resulted in the resignation of Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, Sir Julius Chan.
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    Synopsis: This report offers a dramatic overview of the events which triggered Papua New Guinea's 1997 constitutional crisis. Jerry Singirok, the commander of Papua New Guinea's Defence Force, was sacked for calling the government out for corruption and for spending over $40m on mercerises for the war in Bougainville. Troops loyal to Singirok revolted and seized control of the main military barracks in the country, creating a huge rift between the government and the army. Meanwhile, protests erupted in the country's capital Port Mosebey, with civilians demanding Prime Minister Julius Chan's resignation. After MPs voted to keep Chan as Prime Minister, the army joined the protesters in storming the parliament building. Eventually Chan back down and resigned. Filming the chaos first hand, and following a pilot in the military, ABC Australia captures the turmoil that changed the fate of Papua New Guinea, and asks whether Singirok and the army's actions defended or damaged democracy in the country.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 224

  • @PNGInsight
    @PNGInsight Рік тому +13

    It's incredible to see the power of the people and the army standing up against corruption and demanding change. Jerry Singirok's bravery in calling out the government for corruption and excessive spending is commendable. The events that unfolded during the Sandline affair were truly dramatic, with troops loyal to Singirok taking control of the military barracks and civilians demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Julius Chan.
    This documentary provides a firsthand account of the chaos and turmoil that changed the fate of Papua New Guinea. It raises important questions about whether Singirok and the army's actions defended or damaged democracy in the country. It's crucial to continue to hold leaders accountable and demand transparency in government to ensure that the rights and voices of the people are respected.
    Thank you for sharing this powerful and thought-provoking documentary.

    • @raphaelmogeipiel5730
      @raphaelmogeipiel5730 Рік тому

      Democracy is served when the leadership take the citizens' wishes on board. When that is trodden underfoot national security

    • @raphaelmogeipiel5730
      @raphaelmogeipiel5730 Рік тому +1

      National security is compromised and the Defence Force intervention in our case was warranted to pull in the reigns of our runaway government to save the country from compromising our sovereignty.
      Thank you.

    • @gregorypilau3530
      @gregorypilau3530 Місяць тому

      Given Jerry Singirok was later found guilty of corruption and dismissed from the office, its now clear it was all done for his political reasons.

  • @millionwishlist
    @millionwishlist Рік тому +5

    Old but gold video, really nice documentary.

  • @johanan62
    @johanan62 Рік тому +45

    Money is the root of all evils but greed for it is stronger than hell

  • @yunnayun9367
    @yunnayun9367 Рік тому +23

    Respect Papua from Philippines 🇵🇭

    • @mal_3157
      @mal_3157 4 місяці тому +1

      The Philippines has the best accent, kind people and nice climate from 🇦🇺

    • @user-nn6dk6op6t
      @user-nn6dk6op6t 4 місяці тому

      ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤​@@mal_3157

  • @Supergun201
    @Supergun201 10 місяців тому +5

    Port Moresby Let make peace 🤝🤝 form indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

  • @marktinah1202
    @marktinah1202 Рік тому +8

    Something Bougainville owes to us as citizens who stood with them during that time in history. I was a student at University and petitioned the govt to remove Sandline and request Sir J to step down as PM. I believe the students had a bigger impact towards the unrest. That's the only option we had that time because our voice was suppressed that time looking at how much the govt spend and the corruption involved to bring those mercenaries to deal with the conflict. And also I think the Australian govt just stood and watch without helping that time, even Sir J asked them for help.

  • @yeetyeetcat973
    @yeetyeetcat973 Рік тому +39

    4:59 We need more PNG Soldiers like the one that was telling the other troops to calm down…

    • @roahnosh
      @roahnosh Рік тому +7

      Nah we need more GIF soldiers. Honestly they need more memes they're too serious.

    • @markusmuller6173
      @markusmuller6173 Рік тому +1

      Protests against the govern-mental measures

    • @wilsonpaka4655
      @wilsonpaka4655 Місяць тому

      Colonel William Bartley

  • @sauljob2396
    @sauljob2396 Рік тому +6

    This is problem in many countries, corruption and greed, with oppression and when the people revolt, the international community blame those that revolt while they knew corruption.

  • @gooner72
    @gooner72 Рік тому +11

    This is a crazy World, even though it's an old film it could happen now, in any Country around the World.

  • @darianharu7267
    @darianharu7267 Рік тому +9

    I was in my 3rd year of studies at UPNG when we marched to parliament.

    • @bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477
      @bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 Рік тому +1

      In the next three years I am planning to travel to PNG. I am an American who seeks to immigrate there. I would love to talk to you sometime for lessons you could give me on the history of the nation.

  • @tekajikuyalkrul5111
    @tekajikuyalkrul5111 Рік тому +2

    Is this reuploaded

  • @stankpanda6037
    @stankpanda6037 Рік тому

    Nice Documentary but this is sad.

  • @toxicmafia6192
    @toxicmafia6192 Рік тому +11

    Those south African mercenarys are robots, they literally wiped out all the African rabals. They would do the same in PNG but luckily they were stoped

  • @africanlastborn7776
    @africanlastborn7776 Рік тому +26

    That's what happen if the military has been corrupt from the outside.

    • @oldschoolamerican748
      @oldschoolamerican748 Рік тому +3

      Or the inside, maybe even . . . . . how do you say . . . "WOKE"

    • @markusmuller6173
      @markusmuller6173 Рік тому +2

      Protests against the govern-mental measures

    • @trevs9925
      @trevs9925 Рік тому +1

      The Military and the Government was used by Rio Tinto, but in the end conscience prevailed, PNGDF took over the Government and captured International Mercenaries sent into Bougainville to wipe out the indigenous people there.

  • @rolwones490
    @rolwones490 Рік тому +22

    Such Mercenaries have destroyed countries especially in africa

    • @hernan5940
      @hernan5940 Рік тому +5

      Bollocks. They finished the war in Sierra Leone and Angola

    • @MrRydoone
      @MrRydoone Рік тому +3

      This is not Africa..

    • @hernan5940
      @hernan5940 Рік тому

      @@MrRydoone clearly nobody is disputing that

    • @hernan5940
      @hernan5940 Рік тому

      @@Gregg-gw8vt Not the one with racist Zimbabwe attacking white farmers...no no sorry. Mistake the Angolan government, the same party that is STILL in power hired them to finish the former South Africa allies

    • @hernan5940
      @hernan5940 Рік тому +1

      @@Gregg-gw8vt south Africa didn't lose. And it was never a war about race. Nothing to do with that. Btw look what the "winners" did in Angola, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Nothing to do with race and it was clearly.proven that the people they were fighting were criminals.

  • @-xw1kd
    @-xw1kd Рік тому +6

    Respect Papua from Timor leste

  • @neremoli4990
    @neremoli4990 Рік тому +6

    Our soldiers were the best.Thank you Capt. Charlie Andrew for flying hovering the Parliament during the session. ❤❤❤😊😊😊

  • @tzuyuhypetrain9791
    @tzuyuhypetrain9791 Рік тому +6

    Police opening gun fire
    The subtitle - [Applause] 😂😂

  • @shahmcdonald
    @shahmcdonald Рік тому +5

    Who is that fearsome looking dude in the thumbnail

  • @francisnemen7163
    @francisnemen7163 Рік тому +1

    I like to see this type of video

  • @maiholiaw4927
    @maiholiaw4927 Рік тому +11

    I've seen this video a few years ago. Why is it shown as being posted 17hours ago?

  • @personperson5854
    @personperson5854 Рік тому +7

    The Sandline mercenaries, Thier gunships that was talked about, I think we're hinds helicopters, dumped at Tindell air base in northern territory for 20 years then put in shipping containers and burried at Darwin dump.

  • @jamesengelbreight7147
    @jamesengelbreight7147 Рік тому +13

    God bless PNG and West Papua.

    • @fisophia1734
      @fisophia1734 Рік тому

      God not bless corrupt politicians 🙄

  • @jaycosports3356
    @jaycosports3356 Рік тому +4

    hope these country will get it's total good governance

  • @hanselfisiihoi6293
    @hanselfisiihoi6293 Рік тому +7

    97 was one of PNG's darkest times

  • @reece9993
    @reece9993 Рік тому +2

    An unjust law is no law at all.

  • @bensixnine3260
    @bensixnine3260 Рік тому +4

    Tuhan Yesus berkati PNG dan Bougenvile.

  • @ajlapthorneog
    @ajlapthorneog Рік тому +2

    Singarok is and always was a good man.

  • @miznandz7326
    @miznandz7326 8 місяців тому +3

    salut papau peace love and respect....amin from borneo sabah.

  • @robertafierro5592
    @robertafierro5592 Рік тому +4

    You don't see one woman there!

  • @raphaelmogeipiel5730
    @raphaelmogeipiel5730 Рік тому +3

    Having been around during the Sandrine Crisis of the mid 1990's, one still feels the pain of the political blunder of hiring foreign mercenaries at the1❤ expense of the people by a "government of the people by the people" to restore sovereignty to a nation that had just been born out of colonialism.
    Democracy was shaken by it's roots and the aftershock sticks with a people whose government forgot about it's Melanesian Cultural Values of Conflict Resolution through dialogue.
    If it hadn't been for the Defence Force who acted independently of it's government one wonders what would have become of PNG' sovereignty?
    Current Government moto TAKE BACK PNG should be in the forefront of our policy decisions now.
    The political leaders of that day" some of whom are still alive today, ought to bow in shame at the proposed mass genocide of their own people in trying to quel an uprising spawned by ignoring the plight of our own citizens inorder to accommodate the wish and will of foreign capitalists.
    After so much blood spill and death, the collateral damage, split families, the loss of life and missed development opportunities for the survivors of the crisis, what have we learned?

  • @joschkahurst
    @joschkahurst 11 місяців тому +2

    Stand up Papua New Guinea

  • @MrRydoone
    @MrRydoone Рік тому +5

    My friend also sent over there for military support and this is old video..he yet married this time..and now he got 5 children's already..

  • @GlobalboundE96
    @GlobalboundE96 Рік тому +1

    NO RULES...

  • @robertmawe2261
    @robertmawe2261 Рік тому +4

    The story of Major General Singirok, the Sandline issue and Bougainville is now being pitched for Hollywood. Democracy still thrives.

  • @lucindadossantos2168
    @lucindadossantos2168 11 місяців тому +1

    Persis waktu di Timor Leste

  • @b.3940
    @b.3940 Рік тому +11

    What's up with the name Guinea? There is Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Republic of Guinea, and Papua New Guinea.

    • @someaafrika.3379
      @someaafrika.3379 Рік тому +2

      Guinea is a little fish 😛

    • @b.3940
      @b.3940 Рік тому

      @@someaafrika.3379 Seriously? Like sardines or what?

    • @someaafrika.3379
      @someaafrika.3379 Рік тому +1

      @@b.3940 yeah 🤣🤣 I love sardines bro

    • @charlesomokaro7910
      @charlesomokaro7910 Рік тому

      They are all Africans

    • @Daydreamer-cg2rd
      @Daydreamer-cg2rd Рік тому +12

      European "explorers" colonizers had a habit of naming countries with black/brown people in them Guinea. Equatorial Guinea - Spain, Guinea Bissau - Portugal, Republic of Guinea - France & Papua New Guinea - Britain

  • @ezekieldujambi8427
    @ezekieldujambi8427 26 днів тому +1

    If Singirok was rebellious, then Julius Chan was murderous.

  • @mohamedzulkifly8966
    @mohamedzulkifly8966 Рік тому +1

    This is what happens if your military are not properly taken care of, low wages, not to mentioned not properly armed, hell breaks tru... You can't see this thing in Malaysia, military are well looked for, good pay, housing, well equipted.

  • @johnaina4651
    @johnaina4651 Рік тому +2

    Singirok is the champion

  • @lucindadossantos2168
    @lucindadossantos2168 11 місяців тому +1

    Apa yang papua rasakan Timor Leste juga mersaka waktu itu

  • @michelleherridge4782
    @michelleherridge4782 Рік тому +10

    Stand Strong and Honour Your Values.Dont Let No One Bully You For what's Rightfully Belongs To You Rightful Owners!!!.

  • @keelyjohnson462
    @keelyjohnson462 Рік тому

    1512 yes that's why we have to make sure this can't ever happen again yes

  • @keelyjohnson462
    @keelyjohnson462 Рік тому

    1551 yes exactly and the civilian law enforcement is to provide anything the civilians need the idea of get raped pay go to jail or die by anyone's hands should be avoided at all costs

  • @omar7239
    @omar7239 Рік тому +2

    Very old video.....

  • @nantakota4190
    @nantakota4190 8 місяців тому +1

    Are they serious?

  • @Dante_Fr
    @Dante_Fr Рік тому

    Yo, when did this happen 😲?

    • @katimeko
      @katimeko 5 місяців тому

      From 1988-1997 PNG civil war.

    • @Dante_Fr
      @Dante_Fr 5 місяців тому

      @@katimekoBefore I was born. Good to know 👍🏼

  • @rabbiepora5457
    @rabbiepora5457 Рік тому +4

    These were Papua New Guinea's darkest times, they call it the Sandline crisis or Sandline affair.

  • @bojiden5042
    @bojiden5042 Рік тому +1

    Looks like Seattle

  • @rockstaropbr
    @rockstaropbr 4 місяці тому

    wont freedom but always root

  • @donbarzini1441
    @donbarzini1441 8 місяців тому

    How much oil and minerals do they have... should answer a lot of questions

    • @colonelfustercluck486
      @colonelfustercluck486 25 днів тому

      there is lot of mineral and gas/oil reserves over the country as a whole.
      Now the Bougainville Copper mine paid their fee's or royalties, to the PNG Govt. They paid and there is no dispute...But the PNG Govt never handed the money over to Bougainville as per the agreement.
      So the Bougainville people were getting screwed over by the PNG national Government. (Surprise, surprise).
      Hence, a dispute or civil war in Bougainville. Many Bougainvilleans were killed or died of wounds or lack of medical supplies, as PNG Government had blockaded the Island of Bougainville. This included many civilians, mothers having babies etc.... so that side of it was disastrous.
      The mine was destroyed and occupied by the Bougainville people.
      Soldiers and the Mobile Police units (Paramilitary very well armed Police) returned to PNG mainland after not being paid their wages while in Bougainville on active Govt service.
      I spoke to one group who hadn't been paid for 9 months while they were over there. They didn't want to be there anyway. They had to live off the land for that time.
      So they were against the Govt as well as the Bougainville people.
      So everyone was against the Govt.... and they were the pricks who tried to bring in the mercenaries. (Probably using mine royalties).
      Singarok is a hero for putting the right way of thinking forward.

  • @keelyjohnson462
    @keelyjohnson462 Рік тому

    1028 no way because we're going to fix the civilians everything they need like we're supposed to it just didn't look like that to people that didn't understand how the military Works which is what was frustrating about why they developed all the civilian suits

  • @misterhitter8639
    @misterhitter8639 Рік тому +3

    “2nd rate 3rd world army” not wrong about that, but no one outside of our own country can tame or control PNG, you’ll just wish you didn’t even bother with it in the first place. Sad to see home declining and crumbling

    • @desmondguluman874
      @desmondguluman874 4 дні тому

      That also applies to the normal people who u see chewing bwau

  • @lucindadossantos2168
    @lucindadossantos2168 11 місяців тому

    Kasian sekali

  • @ashraffisaac7878
    @ashraffisaac7878 Рік тому

    Gam this was just a month ago that just saf

  • @keelyjohnson462
    @keelyjohnson462 Рік тому

    434 hugs we're coming to build you a new project we apologize for all the commotion

  • @keelyjohnson462
    @keelyjohnson462 Рік тому

    1640 may you have them ask me any questions to fulfill your needs they are trying to work with me to help you

  • @auto8z
    @auto8z Рік тому +1

    I bet that England had nothing to do with it. Especially when words like democracy being used. Same as Ukraine in 2014.

  • @markusmuller6173
    @markusmuller6173 Рік тому +1

    Protests against the govern-mental measures

  • @trevs9925
    @trevs9925 Рік тому +1

    Those mercenaries wouldn't have made it out. The PNGDF captured all the mercenaries and safely sent them back to South Africa .

  • @AleixoDossantos
    @AleixoDossantos 9 місяців тому

    Papua nugini bisa membantu

  • @keelyjohnson462
    @keelyjohnson462 Рік тому

    846 yeah we kept getting stuck with duties that shouldn't have been assigned to anyone ever

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Рік тому +1

      Could you please consider contributing with relevant information, or simply quit your nonsensical spamming?? Nutcase!

  • @oranjeakuhata3890
    @oranjeakuhata3890 Рік тому

    Looks like to many guns in the wrong hands

  • @keelyjohnson462
    @keelyjohnson462 Рік тому

    608 we need to replace all this old Gear with stuff we can use all we need is Hospital and educational gear we have to get rid of all the weapons that are larger than a machete

  • @kotahurt
    @kotahurt Рік тому

    Yeah Nar fuck that!, to war!!... WE MUST VOTE

  • @ReallyHappened
    @ReallyHappened Рік тому +2

    David Baku from #ONPASSIVE Vote for him

  • @kotahurt
    @kotahurt Рік тому +1

    Ishmael toroama and Francis ona was good people Gina rinehart belongs in Arthur gorrie

  • @kotahurt
    @kotahurt Рік тому

    I got drunk with Albert and Max gaur, but they went back to Fiji

  • @keelyjohnson462
    @keelyjohnson462 Рік тому

    7:11 and that's why we're frustrated with America.......

    • @Nitroat-xo4tj
      @Nitroat-xo4tj Рік тому +5

      Why you post hundreds of comments with numbers in front?? With whom are you talking?

  • @LincySamson-kk3xv
    @LincySamson-kk3xv Рік тому

    File manage

  • @foxmulder7616
    @foxmulder7616 Рік тому

    LOLOLOLOLOL Love 💕😍😍 the WHITE ZOMBIE 👕!!!!!

  • @trendbuzz31
    @trendbuzz31 Рік тому +2

    Huh this is old news

  • @chloejlban6185
    @chloejlban6185 19 днів тому +1

    Anyone in may 2024

  • @alexanderdavis9636
    @alexanderdavis9636 6 місяців тому

    Commander Jerry Singarok and Belden Nama should be knighted Sirs.

  • @allahudeen403
    @allahudeen403 Рік тому +4

    ALLAHU AKBAR!!!

  • @wasiamkean9797
    @wasiamkean9797 Рік тому

    Tindil one Tunai

  • @waito-fz1lk
    @waito-fz1lk Рік тому

    Indernational pathfinder camporee

  • @conorgraafpietermaritzburg3720

    Bottom line: New Guinea needs to keep its hands off the valuable mineral resources of Beauganvilia

    • @harryoconnell6887
      @harryoconnell6887 Рік тому +4

      You didn't even spell it right

    • @AsiaMinor12
      @AsiaMinor12 Рік тому +4

      This is an outdated statement.

    • @trevs9925
      @trevs9925 Рік тому +4

      No, Australia needs to take its hands off Bougainville Minerals.

    • @TylerMarkRichardson
      @TylerMarkRichardson Рік тому +1

      ​@@trevs9925 Australia has almost nothing to do with this

    • @trevs9925
      @trevs9925 Рік тому +3

      @@TylerMarkRichardson Rio Tinto is not a PNG company it is an Australian company, they are the ones pulling the strings, if not for the PNGDF, innocent Bougainvilleans would have been slaughtered by International Mercenaries.

  • @hongchang9370
    @hongchang9370 Рік тому +2

    It’s sad, God even has unrest in Heaven. All greed. How can we expect peace on earth. Thanks Bearhunter5. Don’t worry about the future, there isn’t going to be one.

  • @amarsanaagalbadrah4144
    @amarsanaagalbadrah4144 Рік тому +1

    very dangerous country

  • @bootysmellslikepoopoo3289
    @bootysmellslikepoopoo3289 Рік тому +6

    what about papua OLD guinea

  • @amelaamelajiang493
    @amelaamelajiang493 Рік тому

    Belize lots from the guinea

  • @RodriguezMwaneeroa-vo3re
    @RodriguezMwaneeroa-vo3re 9 місяців тому

    How much did each officer get paid by PNG GOVERNMENT for the operation in BOUGAINVILLE???

  • @maddylmaz4627
    @maddylmaz4627 Рік тому +4

    4:58 i am the captain now

  • @user-vk9rr7te4n
    @user-vk9rr7te4n 9 місяців тому

    Enga tribal fights

  • @charleswaaka4539
    @charleswaaka4539 Рік тому

    Good try boys

  • @tb-yz1ti
    @tb-yz1ti Рік тому

    With China watching you guys be careful who offers you what, take care yourself guys praise GOD

  • @urbnctrl
    @urbnctrl Рік тому

    All I can say is PAID MERCENARIES.

  • @TheProHunting
    @TheProHunting Рік тому +1

    Everybody looks related

    • @mal_3157
      @mal_3157 Рік тому +1

      Racial blindness

    • @TheProHunting
      @TheProHunting Рік тому +1

      @@mal_3157 factually adept

    • @stanwickgangai3685
      @stanwickgangai3685 Рік тому

      @ I know nothing....we aren't the ones doing family roleplay porn..why dont you ask your mother

  • @Olslowhand1
    @Olslowhand1 Рік тому +2

    look up west Papua

    • @tobi9809
      @tobi9809 Рік тому +2

      Where is us army and your army?

    • @doumaupperrank2155
      @doumaupperrank2155 Рік тому

      Manage your country, don't run other people's country

  • @keelyjohnson462
    @keelyjohnson462 Рік тому

    1747 sorry they kept targeting you all

  • @dreamersdisease2481
    @dreamersdisease2481 2 місяці тому

    Animals

  • @peterolg3492
    @peterolg3492 Рік тому

    PETER Karis

  • @RObert_channel13
    @RObert_channel13 Рік тому

    Primitif

  • @pairadice3186
    @pairadice3186 Рік тому +2

    Prime example of why alot of 3rd world states are the way they are.......

  • @alejandrojr.albarracin939
    @alejandrojr.albarracin939 Рік тому

    hahahah…wow

  • @matt211291
    @matt211291 Рік тому +7

    Take back their independence. A beautiful country beforehand and a dangerous rogue country since. Let's not forget the absolute millions of dollars in infrastructure that the Australians left behind. The majority all destroyed now. Millions of dollars in aid still pour into this country, only to line the pockets of the many, many corrupted.

    • @JohnRoberts-wk6rf
      @JohnRoberts-wk6rf Рік тому +2

      Same could be said for all of Sub-Saharan Africa as well, except that the old colonial powers would not want their colonies back.

    • @AsiaMinor12
      @AsiaMinor12 Рік тому +2

      You can sign up and go fight to take New guinea back. Most Australian people aren't interested.

    • @madkills10
      @madkills10 Рік тому +2

      We could have better supported their independence. They obviously were not ready.

    • @trevs9925
      @trevs9925 Рік тому +1

      Try take it back now, you'll be in for a big suprise.

  • @mathildahilda4365
    @mathildahilda4365 Рік тому

    ¹

  • @LabzAli
    @LabzAli Рік тому +1

    666 the devil's playground

  • @agusti_zainal0445
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