PIR “ Whitewash ”
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Port Moresby, Mar. 7.
Brigadier D. M. Cleland’s statement from the Chair re garding the PIR riots has pro duced a mixed bag of reactions from the general public here.
Some of these are: * It was an untimely at tempt to whitewash the PIR. ® The announcement that 15 PIR ringleaders have been dis missed from the service is ex traordinary in view of the fact that only four of the 58 ac cused could be identified in Court and were found guilty. « It was being wise after the event to find that the court should not have been held at Tauro.ma—a point upon which the Army was apparently most determined at the time—and it placed the Secretary for Law in an embarrassing position.
See stories, pages 22, 131.