UPNG boycott 2016

Reconciliation will not be between students and administration, says Dr Mann

Dr Mann told Loop PNG that the administration, nor its staff, went around harassing and intimidating the students.

“The biggest enemy in the campus was not the staff or the security forces.

“The peace reconciliation must be between the students themselves; the different groups, the different factions, the pro-boycott and anti-boycott group and the different provinces.

“Students themselves had gone in and harassed lecturers and those attending class.”

More than 50 PNG students in China condemn shooting

Shenyang, Nanjing and Beijing PNG Students Associations all have pledged their support towards their colleagues back home.

Shenyang PNG Students Association president Tony Ware, a former University of Technology graduate, told Loop PNG: “It’s never right for armed police to shoot citizens of any democratic country who are exercising their democratic rights to freedom of speech.”