Student protests in the noisy neighbour

By Daniel Flitton
Updated June 10 2016 - 10:33pm, first published 10:00pm
Students at University of PNG rally in Forum Square in a call for Prime Minister Peter O'Neill to step down. Photo: Supplied upng4png.live
Students at University of PNG rally in Forum Square in a call for Prime Minister Peter O'Neill to step down. Photo: Supplied upng4png.live
Student protesters in Papua New Guinea in a stand off with police. Photo: PNGFM News/Getty Images
Student protesters in Papua New Guinea in a stand off with police. Photo: PNGFM News/Getty Images

The students gathered in a place they called Forum Square, a covered atrium at the university in Port Moresby. Bright young minds crowded onto the floor in their hundreds, others dangling their legs from the rafters above, refusing to attend class.

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