The 10 Days That Shook Papua New Guinea
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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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.
Democracy is served when the leadership take the citizens' wishes on board. When that is trodden underfoot national security
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.
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.
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.
This is a crazy World, even though it's an old film it could happen now, in any Country around the World.
Old but gold video, really nice documentary.
Money is the root of all evils but greed for it is stronger than hell
Amen to that.
Protests against the govern-mental measures
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.
Is this reuploaded
Respect Papua from Philippines 🇵🇭
The Philippines has the best accent, kind people and nice climate from 🇦🇺
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4:59 We need more PNG Soldiers like the one that was telling the other troops to calm down…
Nah we need more GIF soldiers. Honestly they need more memes they're too serious.
Protests against the govern-mental measures
Colonel William Bartley
I was in my 3rd year of studies at UPNG when we marched to parliament.
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.
Port Moresby Let make peace 🤝🤝 form indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
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
Lolo didn't save their nations
What's rabals and who stopped them
So how they lose to PNGDF?
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.
Yup
…how much trash do you think is buried on top of them? I am willing to pay for recovery.
That's what happen if the military has been corrupt from the outside.
Or the inside, maybe even . . . . . how do you say . . . "WOKE"
Protests against the govern-mental measures
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.
Nice Documentary but this is sad.
Respect Papua from Timor leste
Our soldiers were the best.Thank you Capt. Charlie Andrew for flying hovering the Parliament during the session. ❤❤❤😊😊😊
I like to see this type of video
Such Mercenaries have destroyed countries especially in africa
Bollocks. They finished the war in Sierra Leone and Angola
This is not Africa..
@@MrRydoone clearly nobody is disputing that
@@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
@@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.
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?
Police opening gun fire The subtitle - [Applause] 😂😂
salut papau peace love and respect....amin from borneo sabah.
Who is that fearsome looking dude in the thumbnail
2:31
How much oil and minerals do they have... should answer a lot of questions
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.
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.
I've seen this video a few years ago. Why is it shown as being posted 17hours ago?
Slow internet connection maybe
@@hazwanhashimhjibrahim4500 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@taiwoharoun7999 :)
Your in a different Time Zone most likely mate.
@@hazwanhashimhjibrahim4500 Nope I saw this way back in 2018. I gues it must be some other channel.
Are they serious?
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..
God bless PNG and West Papua.
God not bless corrupt politicians 🙄
“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
Stand up Papua New Guinea
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
hope these country will get it's total good governance
Bruh PNG is the worst country to be in
An unjust law is no law at all.
Singarok is and always was a good man.
Very old video.....
97 was one of PNG's darkest times
The story of Major General Singirok, the Sandline issue and Bougainville is now being pitched for Hollywood. Democracy still thrives.
What's the name of the movie?
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
If Singirok was rebellious, then Julius Chan was murderous.
1640 may you have them ask me any questions to fulfill your needs they are trying to work with me to help you
NO RULES...
Stand Strong and Honour Your Values.Dont Let No One Bully You For what's Rightfully Belongs To You Rightful Owners!!!.
What's up with the name Guinea? There is Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Republic of Guinea, and Papua New Guinea.
Guinea is a little fish 😛
@@someaafrika.3379 Seriously? Like sardines or what?
@@b.3940 yeah 🤣🤣 I love sardines bro
They are all Africans
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
Singirok is the champion
Apa yang papua rasakan Timor Leste juga mersaka waktu itu
Yo, when did this happen 😲?
From 1988-1997 PNG civil war.
@@katimekoBefore I was born. Good to know 👍🏼
These were Papua New Guinea's darkest times, they call it the Sandline crisis or Sandline affair.
1512 yes that's why we have to make sure this can't ever happen again yes
I bet that England had nothing to do with it. Especially when words like democracy being used. Same as Ukraine in 2014.
434 hugs we're coming to build you a new project we apologize for all the commotion
Persis waktu di Timor Leste
Protests against the govern-mental measures
Tuhan Yesus berkati PNG dan Bougenvile.
You don't see one woman there!
Why would women risk themselves at a time like this
Gam this was just a month ago that just saf
Those mercenaries wouldn't have made it out. The PNGDF captured all the mercenaries and safely sent them back to South Africa .
Papua nugini bisa membantu
Looks like Seattle
Ha ha lol
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
wont freedom but always root
How much did each officer get paid by PNG GOVERNMENT for the operation in BOUGAINVILLE???
846 yeah we kept getting stuck with duties that shouldn't have been assigned to anyone ever
Could you please consider contributing with relevant information, or simply quit your nonsensical spamming?? Nutcase!
Ishmael toroama and Francis ona was good people Gina rinehart belongs in Arthur gorrie
Kasian sekali
File manage
Huh this is old news
Kinda the point of this channel.
@@AsiaMinor12 rubbish 🗑
David Baku from #ONPASSIVE Vote for him
Looks like to many guns in the wrong hands
Yeah Nar fuck that!, to war!!... WE MUST VOTE
Commander Jerry Singarok and Belden Nama should be knighted Sirs.
Walter Enuma was the backbone.
7:11 and that's why we're frustrated with America.......
Why you post hundreds of comments with numbers in front?? With whom are you talking?
Enga tribal fights
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.
I got drunk with Albert and Max gaur, but they went back to Fiji
Bottom line: New Guinea needs to keep its hands off the valuable mineral resources of Beauganvilia
You didn't even spell it right
This is an outdated statement.
No, Australia needs to take its hands off Bougainville Minerals.
@@trevs9925 Australia has almost nothing to do with this
@@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.
very dangerous country
Belize lots from the guinea
4:58 i am the captain now
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what about papua OLD guinea
The New Papuans ate it.
Part of Indonesia and it is called west Papua
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With China watching you guys be careful who offers you what, take care yourself guys praise GOD
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Tindil one Tunai
Good try boys
1747 sorry they kept targeting you all
All I can say is PAID MERCENARIES.
look up west Papua
Where is us army and your army?
Manage your country, don't run other people's country
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.
Same could be said for all of Sub-Saharan Africa as well, except that the old colonial powers would not want their colonies back.
You can sign up and go fight to take New guinea back. Most Australian people aren't interested.
We could have better supported their independence. They obviously were not ready.
Try take it back now, you'll be in for a big suprise.
Prime example of why alot of 3rd world states are the way they are.......
hahahah…wow
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Primitif
ALLAHU AKBAR!!!
can we send this country near to Africa ???
Africa is our mother land🙂
PETER Karis
326 1. Army; pick up every homeless person we can find and get them trained in something that benefits all of society and to work doing something that benefits all of society and all of their paperwork cleared because this oh we're all stuck on paperwork isn't working for anyone. 2. Border patrol and the National Guard; become Department of Vocational Rehabilitation assisting all to farming construction forestry healthcare fields. 3.The Marines are supposed to get the prisoners out of the prisons and retrained to jobs they can do to benefit the environment while remanufacturing all of the weapons into solar panels wind and hydroelectric generators and hydrogen fuel cells to clean all water contamination. 4. The Navy is supposed to redistribute goods and services that some people have extra of donating to those with little while assisting with the remanufacturing projects. 5. The Air Force is supposed to be remanufacturing the prisons either into dust if they're too contaminated or dentist offices or another beneficial career field because imprisonment is harboring fugitives and we're all done with the pain for this whole system of no one knows about the get raped pay go to jail or die everything will be used against you plan. 4.Politicians are supposed to be getting everyone universal healthcare Universal income Universal travel Universal equality. 5. The government is supposed to be all of us working from wherever we're at to maintain civil Unity and protect the Coast Guards mission. "
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@ I know nothing....we aren't the ones doing family roleplay porn..why dont you ask your mother