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Kiwi1988 cwo 2 User is Offline Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 2721 Karma: 3 applaud / smite Location: Australia 2766 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:52 pm    Post subject: NZ sent to Tonga. · Quote This is unbelievable its a straight flow on effect from Fiji, Potter is still in Australia all safe, so no worries. The Islands are getting crook, and I hope soon it ends. Saturday November 18, 10:38 AM AFP officers fly out to Tonga   The first contingent of Australian and New Zealand peacekeeping troops is on its way to Tonga, following rioting in the capital Nuku'alofa. Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Paul Jevtovic says his officers are excited about their deployment to Tonga. The 34 police officers have flown out of Canberra this morning. Fifty Australian Defence Force personnel based in Townsville will also be leaving for Tonga this morning, and New Zealand is sending 60 soldiers. Assistant Commissioner Jevtovic says the AFP officers are keen to help local authorities in Tonga. "International policing is pretty exciting work and it's challenging and our people very much look forward to taking their skills that they acquire here and being challenged in an international environment," he said. "We really do see Australia as having a very important role in the policing context in helping build the capacity of regional partners." State of emergency Rioting in Nuku'alofa on Thursday left eight people dead. Tonga's King, Tupou the fifth, has proclaimed a state of emergency. Police and the military have been given sweeping powers to search and detain suspected troublemakers. An around-the-clock curfew is also being enforced. New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark says the joint Australian-New Zealand force is being sent today because Tonga's security forces are stretched to the limit. "The Tongan Government is very shocked by what's happened. The Tongan people are shocked," she said. "It's really, I think, a preventive measure now to give some assurance that things won't go out of control again." Prime Minister John Howard says the arson damage to Tonga's business centre has been massive. "We are reasonably hopeful that situation has calmed down," he said. "But they have very small police numbers, they have a very small defence force." Mr Howard says Tonga is another example of the long-term instability confronting the South Pacific. Eyewitness The mother of a Darwin woman caught up in the violent protests in Tonga says her daughter has moved to a poorer part of the capital to escape looting mobs. Tanya Beynon has been living in the Tongan capital of Nuku'alofa for the past two years, working with Australian Volunteers International. Sue Beynon says her daughter witnessed mobs looting and burning shops. She says her daughter has abandoned a home she was house-sitting for the New Zealand High Commissioner in a wealthy suburb of the capital and has taken refuge with a Tongan family in a poorer area. "She feels much safer there, she's moved to the other side of town and [is] living with a Tongan family there for the weekend and they seem to think they'll be a lot safer there," she said. _________________ Executive Officer[XO] M.S.T. [Reserve corps] Military Global Allied Forces http://www.militaryglobal.com/forum/index.php Evil Prevails when good men do nothing Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. Jewish Task Force http://jtf.org/forum_english/index.php
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