outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

I went around to Robert and Tony

last night. The murder of a student is so unsettling - that's not the word I want because a murder is wrong and a tragedy and what I probably mean is that the response to the murder is unsettling. Tony told me how he went to the haus krai and spoke words which encouraged the grieving father - "Your son was only doing on Friday night what 50 million students world wide were doing. He was out with his friends." You shouldn't get murdered for that. You shouldn't get murdered full stop. The grieving father had been told that his son brought it on himself and so he was relieved that Tony said what he said.

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