PNG: Five detained Australians camping out at airport
April 29, 2009
Five Australian tourists caught in a legal limbo in West Papua after a six-month nightmare in custody are setting up camp at a local airport and refusing to leave until they are allowed to return home.
Despite being asked to return to the town of Merauke, William and Vera Scott-Bloxam, Keith Mortimer, Karen Burke and Hubert Hofer are defiantly staying put, believing their encampment in the lounge of the small international airport puts them out of reach of authorities.
'As far as we are concerned, we are in no-man's land,' Mr Mortimer said. 'We are going to stay here. Mate, they are going to have to physically pick us up and take us out of here.'
The Eastern Riverina Chronicle
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