{"id":38837,"date":"2021-11-12T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/12\/png-residents-evicted-a-decade-ago-for-casino-development-face-violence-and-poverty-report"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:16:58","slug":"png-residents-evicted-a-decade-ago-for-casino-development-face-violence-and-poverty-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38837","title":{"rendered":"PNG residents evicted a decade ago for casino development face violence and poverty: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former residents of the Paga Hill settlement in Port Moresby say their displacement has led to a range of problems<\/p>\n<p>Many former residents of a settlement in Papua New Guinea who claim they were forcibly evicted nearly a decade ago say they are living without access to sanitation, electricity and water and some have faced homelessness, violence and community tension as a result of the move, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 the Paga Hill Development Company (PHDC), a PNG registered company with significant ties to Australia, announced its plan to create the Paga Hill Estate, which would include a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/07\/plans-to-build-papua-new-guinea-png-first-casino-trigger-fears-over-social-problems\">resort, casino, and an aquarium<\/a>. In 2012<strong> <\/strong>police, backed by bulldozers, began moving into the settlement of Paga Hill in Port Moresby, to clear the area.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/12\/png-residents-evicted-a-decade-ago-for-casino-development-face-violence-and-poverty-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former residents of the Paga Hill settlement in Port Moresby say their displacement has led to a range of problemsMany former residents of a settlement in Papua New Guinea who claim they were forcibly evicted nearly a decade ago say they are living wit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38838,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837\/revisions\/38838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}