June 18, 2001 - PNG Gosspi: "High security risk" alert posted on the Internet by the Peace Corps

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"High security risk" alert posted on the Internet by the Peace Corps



"High security risk" alert posted on the Internet by the Peace Corps

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After 20 years in the country the volunteer organisation USA Peace Corps is packing up and leaving the country citing deteriorating security problems as the reason. The volunteers have worked in remote areas like Bema, Menyamya and Wasu in Morobe province and Wasab in Madang and in areas like Misima, Goodenough in Milne Bay and many other rural outposts.

The volunteers have been subjected to aggravated assault, robbery at gunpoint, attacked while working alongside their local counterparts and have had their cars stolen and their homes broken into. This has been assessed as being three times the risk factor of other developing countries.

American tourists to Papua New Guinea are cancelling their travel arrangements here following the "high security risk" alert posted on the Internet by the Peace Corps.



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Story Source: PNG Gosspi

This story has been posted in the following forums: : Headlines; COS - PNG; Safety and Security of Volunteers

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