14 Aug 2024

The grim plight faced by PNG's evicted settlers

From , 6:01 am on 14 August 2024
People carry items as crowds leave shops with looted goods amid a state of unrest in Port Moresby on January 10, 2024. A festering pay dispute involving Papua New Guinea's security forces on January 10 sparked angry protests in the capital, where a crowd torched a police car outside the prime minister's office. By Wednesday afternoon pockets of unrest had spread through the capital Port Moresby, with video clips on social media showing crowds looting shops and stretched police scrambling to restore order. (Photo by Andrew KUTAN / AFP)

Photo: ANDREW KUTAN

A Papua New Guinea human rights lawyer says hundreds of people are still living on the streets of Port Moresby two years after being evicted from a squatter settlement.

More than 11 thousand people were forced out of the Morata New Block settlement in 2022 after a court decision.

Lawyer Danny Gonal spoke with RNZ Pacific senior journalist Don Wiseman and told him about their plight.